German immigration authorities’ initiative to attract foreign skilled professionals from non-European Union (EU) countries through a special immigration program is being considered a failed attempt by analysts and other influential officials in the country. According to a report published in a local newspaper, containing opinions and comments of different officials, the German immigration’s ‘Blue Card [...]
Immigration rate in Germany is increasing rapidly according to a report compiled by officials in a federal organization. The study, conducted by the Federal department for statistics in Germany, Destatis, has shown that migration numbers in the country, particularly from country’s suffering from the effects of the euro economic crisis, are rising rapidly as compared [...]
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Germany will be introducing an online visa appointment system for the applicants wishing to visit Germany from Ghana. The applicants for long and short stay visas will have to book appointments online starting from January 1, 2013. The German embassy in Ghana has issued a press release stating all applicants for short and long term [...]
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German immigration department’s ‘Blue Card’ permit facility might prove to be the chance that many non-European Union (EU) nationals have been waiting for, the chance to work or study in Germany. The resident permit program that was announced by the German immigration authorities in August this year allows foreign non-EU nationals to study and/or work [...]
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Germany has been trying to devise effective policies to ensure integration of immigrants in its societies for sometimes. Such efforts have been criticized by a majority of people as being ineffective; however, the statistical data suggest a different story. According to a recently published report, one out of every five individuals living in Germany comes [...]
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Turkish immigrants living in Germany are more anxious to get integrated in the German society and also want to excel in their religious beliefs according to a recent study conducted by a local German organization called Info GmbH. The report that was released this Friday August 17th, 2012 claims mostly the younger Turkish generation is [...]
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Muslims immigrants living in the Northern City of Hamburg in Germany were overwhelmed to hear the news of an agreement made by the authorities with the local Muslim community, a first of its kind in the country. Hamburg city authorities have agreed, in return for certain conditions, to recognize Islamic holidays for the Muslims living [...]
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A German court recently ruled in favor of a Palestinian asylum seeking family to continue their asylum process in Germany and not to send them back to Italy. The court said that asylum seekers in Italy have to face inhuman and humiliating treatment by the locals and the authorities. Therefore, it would be injustice to [...]
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Switzerland and Germany, the two European countries and neighbors, well know around the world for their strong financial status and powerful skilled human capital respectively. Although quite cordial when times require them to be, the two neighbors have been in continuous diversity of nature of their relationship for the past century. Though Switzerland is home [...]
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Germany has received record highest levels in past 16 years of influx of immigrants from Greece, Spain, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary during the year 2011. The statistics office of Germany shows that 958000 migrants entered Germany in 2011 and only 679,000 left the country. The net inflow of 279000 is the highest since the [...]
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