The German Government decided on 9 July 2003 that the German Green card program will continue beyond the original expiry date of 31 July 2003 until the end of 2004.
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The German Government in summer 2000 introduced the highly successful “German Green Card” for IT professionals to cope with the continuing shortage of qualified IT professionals in Germany. The programme launched by Federal Chancellor Schroder radically streamlined and speeded up the process of bringing in non-EEA nationals to work as IT professionals in Germany.
There have been more than 13.000 German Green Cards issued since the programme was introduced, with Indian nationals being the largest single group to benefit from the programme.
Germany’s Constitutional Court on 23 December 2002 declared void a German Parliament Upper House vote of early 2002, stopping the implementation of the new German immigration law. Germany’s new Immigration Act had been due to come into force on 1 January 2003. The new law would have allowed the entry of thousands more high-skilled workers that are desperately needed by the German economy to fill skill shortage areas.
Following the recent German elections, which was won by the governing SPD-Greens coalition of Chancellor Schröder, it now seems certain that the new German immigration act will come into force on 1 January 2003 as planned. We include some brief details of the new act below:
From 01/09/02 Work Permits (UK) will take over the decision making process on all work permit applications received in Northern Ireland.
German Immigration Law, which has been widelydiscussed in the German media for several months, was approved by the Bundesrat(the Upper House of the German parliament) on 22 March, 2002. The new law hasproved to be very controversial, and it is uncertain whether the Law in it’scurrent form will ever come into force. The Federal President can refuse to signthe new law as it currently stands, and if this should happen it will probablymean that the new law will be delayed until after Germany’s general electionin autumn this year. The law could then be modified by whoever wins theelections.