The traffic light coalition expects that around 75,000 immigrants from countries outside the EU will come to Germany every year with the planned regulations.
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Berlin For employer president Rainer Dulger, the matter is clear. “The shortage of skilled workers is acute, it not only endangers our economy, it endangers our prosperity,” he told the Handelsblatt. But where are well-trained workers supposed to come from when the baby boomers of the 1960s will soon be retiring and demographic change is intensifying?
Experts say it won’t work without immigration. That is why the hurdles for skilled workers from abroad are now to be removed. Details are regulated in the so-called Skilled Immigration Act, which the Bundestag intends to pass on Friday.
Opportunity card and scoring system
A points system linked to a so-called “chance card” for job search is newly introduced. With the system based on the model of other immigration countries such as Canada, foreign skilled workers who do not yet have a concrete job offer in Germany should also be allowed to immigrate. The selection criteria include at least “sufficient” knowledge of the German language, professional experience, age and connection to Germany – for example, the question of whether relatives already live in this country.
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