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Imagine you are from an non EU country, have ten years of working experience in a relevant field, speak German at B2/C1 level. You apply for a residency permit with work permission. Sounds reasonable?
Wrong! Your school education, higher education and trade certification aren't recognised. You can apply for a trade certification course and residency permit, but only when you can proof to have about 10,000€ in the bank account for each year of the course. You are not allowed to engage in any form of employment on the side except for 10hours a week and <450€/month.
After you get your arbitrary certification you have to rush to find any job that is within the scope of your certificate. You will need to beg companies that they will sign the contract and risk waiting three months or more until your residency permit is approved. If it works out now for the first two years you are beholden to that company as your permit is tied to that job. If you want to change jobs you need to have a new company ligned up and initiate for a change approval, with the new company again willing to wait multiple months for the procedure.
If you don't abide by that process, get laid off, etc. your residency is invalid and you could be deported easily.
These were the experiences people close to me made under the supposed progressive government before the current one. German administration absolutely hates foreigners and the processes are made to make them sufder as much as possible and keep showing them that they should feel like servants kissing the boots of their masters.
It does not make sense economically, socially or in any other capacity. It is pure systematic racism, using the illogical and cold blood bureaucracy as a front.
Just reading this as a German is like "this is how I imagine it". Not as envision. Just how some CDU-led ministry designed it