Expat's Concise Guide to Overcome Officialdom in Germany and so smoothly integrate into Germany to stay on the right side of the law https://www.lg2g.info/entry/children-entering-germany/197-entry 2025-02-07T12:15:55+01:00 Joomla! - Open Source Content Management 2008-11-24T06:00:12+01:00 2008-11-24T06:00:12+01:00 https://www.lg2g.info/residence AvE hi@lg2g.info

<div class="feed-description"><h1>General Questions on Residence</h1> <p>Until the end of 2004, there were several different and confusing permits granting you legal abode. Now there are only two different titles of residence; one gives you either a temporary permission to stay, and the other permit grants you permanent permission to remain in Germany. Visas will never grant a status that will enable you to receive a permanent residence at some time in the future. Temporary residency permits might enable you to obtain permanent residency. That depends on the purpose of your sojourn.</p> <p>A visa is a permit exclusively for a temporary sojourn for up to six months. The new rules apply to persons first entering Germany now and to those, whose permits are to be renewed. The following graphic will give you an overview of all possible kinds of status following the rules valid from 2005. <br /><img src="images/stories/content/entry/SMALL_Structure_new_residence_titles.gif" border="0" alt="Structure of Residence titles" title="Structure of Residence titles" width="100" height="132" style="margin-left: 10px; float: right;" /></p> <p>As the graph on the right shows, there is now only one temporary and only one permanent residency permit. The rules of your (temporary) status are very much dependent upon the reason for living in Germany. This means a student will have different rights than a self-employed person.</p> </div>

<div class="feed-description"><h1>General Questions on Residence</h1> <p>Until the end of 2004, there were several different and confusing permits granting you legal abode. Now there are only two different titles of residence; one gives you either a temporary permission to stay, and the other permit grants you permanent permission to remain in Germany. Visas will never grant a status that will enable you to receive a permanent residence at some time in the future. Temporary residency permits might enable you to obtain permanent residency. That depends on the purpose of your sojourn.</p> <p>A visa is a permit exclusively for a temporary sojourn for up to six months. The new rules apply to persons first entering Germany now and to those, whose permits are to be renewed. The following graphic will give you an overview of all possible kinds of status following the rules valid from 2005. <br /><img src="images/stories/content/entry/SMALL_Structure_new_residence_titles.gif" border="0" alt="Structure of Residence titles" title="Structure of Residence titles" width="100" height="132" style="margin-left: 10px; float: right;" /></p> <p>As the graph on the right shows, there is now only one temporary and only one permanent residency permit. The rules of your (temporary) status are very much dependent upon the reason for living in Germany. This means a student will have different rights than a self-employed person.</p> </div>