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Opportunity Card Consultancy

From June 1, 2024, the Chancenkarte program will introduce a points system for skilled workers without professional qualifications. Those who collect enough points will be able to get a German visa. It is very important to take the right steps for this very new program. With the Chancenkarte consultancy service, you can follow the shortest path to the right goal.
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With the opportunity card, which will come into effect in June 2024, people coming from third countries and meeting the recognized standards for the opportunity card can obtain a work and residence permit in Germany. The Opportunity Card is given to people who demonstrate their own expertise and receive at least six points according to the points system. After people receive their work and residence permits in Germany, they must continue their business relationships during their stay in Germany.

Conditions and Point Distribution for the Opportunity Card

  • Basic Requirement: German at A1 level or English at B2 level and at least 2 years of vocational training.
  • 4 Points: If there is a professional recognition procedure for the profession to be practiced, a professional recognition decision taken from the relevant institution.
  • 3 Points: five years of professional experience in the last seven years in the relevant profession. Alternatively, German language proficiency at B2 level.
  • 2 Points: Two years of work experience in the relevant profession within the last five years. Being under the age of 35 or having German proficiency at B1 level is also evaluated as 2 points.
  • 1 Point:Being between the ages of 35 and 40, having a minimum of six months of previous stay in Germany, knowing German at C1 level, and having the profession you plan to work in among the priority professions are also sufficient to receive points. In addition to all these, if your spouse also meets the Fırsat Card criteria, an extra point contribution is provided.

In order to obtain work and residence permits within the scope of the qualified personnel law in Germany, it is necessary to recognize the training received in the past for the profession. This requirement makes it impossible for qualified personnel who have not received vocational training but have practiced their profession for years to obtain a work permit in Germany.

The Opportunity Card allows experts who do not have a vocational training infrastructure but have professional experience to be granted a work permit in Germany. In this way, it allows experts who collect six points within the framework of the criteria mentioned above to work in Germany.