Category: Visa & Residence
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Work and opportunity card (3)
Family reunification (9)
- Blue Card family reunification: exemptions and remaining requirements
- Family reunification documents: evidence and a preparation checklist
- Family reunification for Iraqis: Baghdad or Erbil, and what applies to you
- Family reunification for Syrians: where to file today and how the suspension applies
- Family reunification from Egypt: Cairo jurisdiction and current visa routes
- Family reunification from Morocco: the online portal and TLScontact by category
- Family visa timelines: appointments, processing and Tunis–Algiers updates
- Spouse reunification in Germany: the conditions of Section 30 AufenthG
- Subsidiary-protection family reunification: suspension, hardship and legal remedies
Permanent residence (1)
Citizenship and naturalisation (1)
About this section
Every route into and inside Germany as the Residence Act (AufenthG) actually words it: spouse and child reunification under §30 and §32, the exemptions that apply to EU Blue Card holders, the suspension law for subsidiary-protection holders and its hardship route, permanent residence under §9 with the sixty months of pension contributions that sink most applications, and naturalisation under §10 of the Nationality Act. Alongside them the work routes: skilled workers under §18a and §18b, the EU Blue Card with its annual salary thresholds, the Opportunity Card with the full points table from the statutory annex, and self-employment under §21.
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Self-employment residence permits in Germany: three tests, and easier routes
Not one door but four — and the easiest skips the economic-interest test entirely.
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The Opportunity Card: the full points table and what it actually allows
The table with its real figures, straight from the Annex to the Act.
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The EU Blue Card in Germany: thresholds, occupations and the IT route
Germany’s strongest work permit — and its conditions are more precise than the summaries suggest.
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Working in Germany: who counts as a skilled worker, and on what terms
The five conditions of § 18 — and what changed fundamentally in favour of qualification holders.
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Family reunification documents: evidence and a preparation checklist
Read the document list backwards: each paper proves a fact the statute requires — and knowing the fact tells you the alternative when the paper is unavailable.
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Blue Card family reunification: exemptions and remaining requirements
Three requirements fall away by express provision rather than discretion, and a fourth exemption survives even the upgrade to a settlement permit.
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Family reunification from Egypt: Cairo jurisdiction and current visa routes
Competence follows your residence, not your nationality. Cairo covers Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Sudan — with an express Sudan carve-out, and since June 2026 no longer residents of Syria.
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Family reunification from Morocco: the online portal and TLScontact by category
TLScontact handles Schengen only; reunification runs through the embassy in Rabat by appointment. The narrow windows, and the language condition as the statute actually words it.
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Family reunification for Iraqis: Baghdad or Erbil, and what applies to you
Two missions inside Iraq: Baghdad for the centre, Erbil for the north — and the wrong choice is a formal refusal. Plus the status question that decides whether your route is open at all.
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Family reunification for Syrians: where to file today and how the suspension applies
Two questions decide the file: where you apply — Amman, Beirut or Erbil — and what status your relative holds, because subsidiary protection is suspended until 24 July 2027.
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Family visa timelines: appointments, processing and Tunis–Algiers updates
There is no single number. What missions publish is the appointment wait, not the decision time — and six steps that genuinely shorten the process.
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Subsidiary-protection family reunification: suspension, hardship and legal remedies
The suspension covers beneficiaries of subsidiary protection only, from 24 July 2025 to 24 July 2027. How they differ from recognised refugees, and the official hardship route step by step.