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| ▲ | ricardobeat 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It varies per country, for example in the Netherlands as a software engineer and other "highly skilled" [1] roles you can get an HSM visa / work permit. I believe Germany, Denmark and others have similar programs. This is how it works: you interview[2], get a job offer, sign it, then your employer applies for a work permit on your behalf. The only complicated part is collecting your own paperwork. You wait a few weeks/months for approval and move in. It's a lot easier than most people think. The permit is tied to your employment, though it can be transferred, but you cannot get a 'free employment' permit until after five years in the country. For the EU as a whole, the Blue Card serves a similar purpose but is significantly more difficult to obtain. [1] There is no skill/merit assessment like the USA, it's solely based on the salary threshold - basically delegates the skill assessment to the employer. Not every company has access to this program, the job must be advertised as including visa sponsorship. [2] online. Flying over for a final round was common before COVID, I miss those days | | |
| ▲ | 47282847 2 days ago | parent [-] | | +1 We hired someone from Syria as a small and newly formed company in Germany, and all we had to claim is that yes it is a high skill job above a certain salary threshold and no we cannot find a person available with the required skills in Europe. The visa application process from our side was simple and straightforward, no forms, no fees, just a short letter where they told us beforehand via phone what to write to get it accepted, and it was processed very quickly, a few weeks maybe. We didn’t even advertise the job before, it was a position/role created specifically for that person (so from that perspective there was truth behind the statement that we cannot find anyone else suitable for it.) |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > You need a work permit to get a job, not the other way around To legally get a job yes, but that tends to not be super effective at stopping people, and even if the job itself is illegal, it can count as something that links you to the society where you want to regularize your situation. Heavy "it depends on the country" since we're talking Europe-wide here. | |
| ▲ | Muromec 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | >You need a work permit to get a job, not the other way around Technically yes, but actually no, because you mostly need an employer to sponsor your work permit, unless you get yourself a residence permit that is not job-related. | |
| ▲ | jrochkind1 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | What might be some of the ways GP poster's family managed it? Pretty much nobody does that in the USA (maybe by getting married? Prob not even that in Trump II), where I am. Come in an a tourist visa, stay over, manage to legalize your stay in a few years and then become a citizen. Nope. | | |
| ▲ | JuniperMesos 2 days ago | parent [-] | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Guevara_(journalist) this guy spent about 20 years attempting to do exactly that, and was only actually caught and deported last month. In this case, the way he was attempting to get legal citizenship was by virtue of his now-adult children who he and his wife had on US soil, which makes the children legally natural-born US citizens. | | |
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