German Greencard

In March 2000 federal chancellor Gerhard Schröder was pleased to announce the plan to introduce a new form of temporary work permit in Germany, the German Green Card.
At that time there was an acute lack of IT-specialists, due to economical ignorance and false estimation on the future labor market.
The government and the industrial associations in the information and communications technology sector wanted to recruit a total of 20000 IT-specialists for a limited time with a maximum of five years. Possible applicants are non-european-union computer specialists with university and polytechnique qualifications, e. g. Bachelor´s or Master´s degrees; in addition applicants without a degree are provided of an anual salary of at least € 51000. The intention of recruiting them is to immediately abolish the lack of labor and to insure Germany will not miss the connection to other high tech countries.During the same period, Germany will try to close the gap of education and continued educ...