Subcategories

• Business Legalities

  Business Legalities

  Inside the FAQ for business legalities, we want to provide you with a very basic understanding that you can prepare the consultation with us. This category collects topics around businesses (company law) as well as doing business.

  • Contracts
  • F.A.Q. for Incorporating

    This category lists all topic around frequently asked questions when opening a company.

  • Business Taxation

    Business Taxes

    The articles shown here will be on taxes related to the taxation of businesses in Germany. The provided information is intended to give you the basics of how German entities are taxed here. Consider that German tax law is considered as "regular" as the verbs in the English language. Each rule has at least one exception, and each exception also has its own exception. Case law does not always bring more clarity either.
    Nevertheless, we want to inform you what is relevant to get your business started and tax compliant. Nonetheless, we would like to inform you what is relevant for starting your business and complying with tax regulations. We will introduce you to the day-to-day tax types and their basic rules.

    The basic taxes are corporate tax, income tax, input tax, trade tax and VAT.

• Entry
  • Business Immigration

    Business Immigration

    

    We are highly specialized for business immigration purposes! Alexander has been hired by Deutsche Anwaltsinstitut to train other colleagues in business immigration. Please understand as "business immigration" when we serve investors, freelancers, and startups.

  • Employment Immigration

    Employment Immigration

    

    Germany has a shortage on skilled and academic workers. Persons lacking any kind of training will not have a chance to obtain a residence permit in Germany. The individual articles will describe you what you need to know for a certain residence permit around employment in Germany.

  • Private Purposes

    Private Purposes

    This is about topics such as family reunification or immigration as a pensioner. About all those people who want to immigrate to Germany without wanting to / being able to / having to work.

  • Studying in Germany

    Studying in Germany

    This category is all about the residential requirements of studying in Germany. Be it to only learn the language or study at a university for Bachelor, Master, or PhD.

  • Citizenship

    Citizenship

    These pages provide you with valuable information about citizenship, dual citizenship and naturalization or applying for German citizenship.

• Labor Law

  Labor Law

  If you are the kind of person who likes to look things up, beware. There is no Labor Code in Germany. Instead, employment law is regulated in a bulk of statutes, collective agreements ,and standard company agreements. Case law and academic opinions, so called “ruling opinions or ruling case law ('herrschende Meinung' or 'ständige Rechtsprechung')”, play a vital role here. If you have been fired, it is a great help to contact a lawyer if you want a severance payment. But again, remember that you have to pay the lawyer yourself, no matter who wins – in the first instance. Your legal insurance will usually cover the costs for this dispute.

• Private Legalities

  Private Legalities

  

  This section will describe the legalities of a private person in Germany – on a general basis.

• Qualifications for Needed Professions in Germany

  Qualifications for Needed Professions in Germany

  Here we randomly introduce highly needed professions in Germany. They help you get an orientation on what will be expected from you when applying for a permit.
  Let us assume, you do not immediately fulfill all requirements for a profile, that does not automatically mean an end of your career in Germany. It only means that you might first have to start with a “training permit” and later switch to fully fledged employment permit.

   

  In the attempt to provide our support in finding open jobs, we got in contact with the Bertelsmann Stiftung, which has recently updated its job monitor. Here you will find the 10 most wanted jobs in Germany. Further filter for regions, occupation groups, occupational fields as well as indepth analyses. You can learn from this site whether it makes sense to go further or not. Even if your job is not listed amongst the top ten, does this mean, you will have no chance? No, it will only mean that we will have to search more thoroughly.

• Residence

  This section is all about your extending and living on your residence permit.

• Visas

  

  Visas

  This topic is all about visas – but not residence permits. Please understand as "visa" the permission to be inside Germany as a visitor for up to three months in a row. A "residence permit" allows persons to indefinitely live here and maybe also pursue some kind of employment and in the long run be eligible for permanent residency – longest after five years.