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Everything i need to know about JOb Seeker Visa , Germany

First of all many thanks to expatforum to give me a chance to short out confusion in such a wonderful way. Here i would like to have resolution a

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Hello all. I've been lurking around this forum, reading up for the past 6 months. Now I'm here to give back to this community. I recently moved to Germany on a Job seeker visa from the UK, where I did my MBA. The process is pretty straight forward. You need your CV, work experience and academic certificates, proof of funds sufficient to take care of your living expenses. and a cover letter stating your plan. I'll try and break it down a bit. CV - Keep it down to one page if possible Work experience letters - Put together everything you can, offer letters, relieving letters, promotion/appraisal letter etc Academic certificates - From high school up to your highest qualification, incl professional training (if any) Cover letter - One page, stating the purpose of your application, what your plan of action is, how would you go about it, and what is your back up plan if you fail to make it in Germany. I wrote about how I spoke with a few of my German classmates while studying in the UK, what I did in terms of researching the market, where and how I will look for / apply to jobs. I also mentioned that I will be taking an intensive language course to bring me up to speed (which I'm doing currently). I had also been learning German by myself for 4 months prior to moving here. Anyway, you get the idea...I can email you an outline of my letter if you need. PM me. Proof of funds - This was a bit tricky. As I had recently pumped in all of my savings into my MBA, I had no money left. My dad was kind enough to offer to support me till I start work again. So if someone else is going to 'sponsor' you, they need to go to the German embassy, with all their docs, and get a "Verpflichtungserklärung" or a formal obligation letter. This will have to be submitted along with your application. I submitted my docs at the Embassy in London, and I got a call the next morning saying my visa ready to be collected. I moved here about a month ago and I'm halfway through my 4week intensive B1 course. I'm not fluent yet, but that will take time. Moving on to the job market. It is very hard to find a job without being able to speak German. Even for roles that don't require German, where the business language is English, your potential employer would expect you to speak at least half decent German, so that you can gel well with your colleagues (who may not speak much English), and also so that you fit in well with the rest of the society - which is very important to them as they don't want to invest time and money on hiring someone only to find out that he/she wants to leave in a few months because they can't 'fit in'. And talking about the fitting in part, you really need German to do anything here. Apart from a few signs at major subway/train stations and tourist attractions, you hardly find English. Everythin will be writted and spoken in in German. So do yourself a favour, sign up at your local Goethe Institut and get yourself at least to an A2 level before moving. Hope that cleared up some of your questions. Please feel free to ask me anything over here or on PM.

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ES-5 investor visa, individual or can it be as a company?

My friend is thinking of immigrating to the US with an Investor visa EB-5. he needs to invest 1M for this visa, but our question is: can this mone

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it has to be his money and they will investigate where every penny came from Hee obvioulsy had no idea about the whole thing .. get an aila lawyer to go thru all the details

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