Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil and Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser present the new immigration law
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“The visa procedures continue to take too long, the immigration authorities are overburdened and there is still no culture of welcome in Germany that makes Germany appear more attractive to immigrants,” says Jörg Dittrich, president of the trades.
WBusiness associations have criticized the federal government’s planned Skilled Immigration Act as insufficient. “The path is still paved with too many difficulties and potholes for immigrants to take it on the scale hoped for,” said the President of the Central Association of German Crafts (ZDH), the editorial network Germany.
“The visa procedures continue to take too long, the immigration authorities are overburdened and there is still no culture of welcome in Germany that makes Germany appear more attractive to immigrants.” take effect, immigration law must be made less bureaucratic.”
On Thursday, the Bundestag will debate the traffic light coalition’s draft law for easier immigration for skilled workers for the first time. The law is intended to make it easier and more attractive for qualified workers from abroad to take up a job in Germany – it is also intended to remedy the lack of personnel in many German companies.
The coalition led by Federal Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil and Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (both SPD) wants, among other things, to introduce a points system based on the Canadian model and make it easier for foreign professional qualifications to be recognised.
The general manager of the Central Association of the German Construction Industry, Felix Pakleppa, also expressed criticism of the draft law. “For the immigration of non-European skilled workers, the sole criterion is the existence of formal qualifications. This means that the law falls short in practice,” he explained.
There are “a great many people willing to immigrate with many years of professional experience on foreign construction sites”. However, if they lack the formal qualifications, they are denied access to the German labor market.
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