Germany to facilitate the immigration of skilled workers-

Home Secretary Nancy Faeser

Germany will ease the immigration of skilled workers, paving the way for the “most modern immigration law” in the country’s history, the government said on Wednesday.

In the future, people with “high potential” will be able to emigrate to Germany, even if they do not yet have a job. To this end, the so-called “opportunity card” will be introduced, based on a points system.

“This is urgently needed,” said Home Secretary Nancy Faeser, presenting the plans. The COVID-19 crisis has “greatly exacerbated staff shortages in many sectors.”

As of mid-2022, Europe’s largest economy lacked more than half a million skilled workers in all occupational groups, according to the German Economic Institute (IW). The social and health sectors were the most affected.

“We want skilled workers to come to Germany quickly and get an edge,” Faeser said, adding that bureaucratic obstacles must be “removed out of the way.”

Despite the acute labor shortage, the number of temporary workers from countries outside the European Union (EU) registered in Germany has already more than tripled in the last decade, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).

To reinforce the trend, the income thresholds for the blue card, which allows highly-skilled non-EU professionals to live and work in the EU, will be lowered. Educational migration to Germany will also be facilitated.

“In the competition for talent and helping hands, we offer new and, above all, easier ways of working in Germany,” Education Minister Hubertus Heil said, adding that the shortage of skilled workers should not become a “permanent brake on growth”. .”

The number of people with jobs in Germany rose to a record high of 45.7 million in October, a year-on-year increase of 428,000, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the country’s unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.3 percent in November, according to data from the Federal Employment Agency (BA) also released on Wednesday. There were just over 2.43 million registered unemployed in Germany at that time. ■

(Xinhua)

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