Hello,

Sorry for writing in English, my German is still horrible. I am a long term resident in Italy and I have a long term permit for stay and work issued by Italian goverment, so called EU documents. I am not an European cittizen.
An employer from Germany had made a concrete offer for work, we signed a contract and applied for my work permit in Immigration office in the city where is the company that is offering me work.
I have following questions:
      According to your knowledge how long it takes that the Immigration office answers to such an application (they told me about 4 weeks and that everything should be ok since I am an engineer and PhD, but the practice is often very different from theory )
      What happens with my Italian EU long term resident documents? Does Germany authorities take Italian documents upon giving German permit for stay and work or just control Italian documents and give them back to a holder? This is important for me regarding Italian authorities, since they are making problems here.
      According to your knowledge what expiry date should have my first German documents, if I get an approval? An employer made me working contract for an indefinite duration, I don’t know does it matters regarding the expiry date for permit for work.

Thank you in advance for your patience. Best regards
Elena

Thank you very much for your answer. I have enclosed the answers to your questions and some further questions.


Yes, this is “EU long stay” issued under directive 2003/103 and it is written on it EU. When I have applied for work permit in German Immigration office they asked me this and agreed on it after verifying.


Yes, I understand it and I am awaiting the answer either approval o rejection. Do you have any experience or knowledge how long the process can last to get the answer? Does the length of working contract influence the expiry date of first permit obtained?


In theory it is like that in Italy, but there are always some problems in practice. It’s Italy .


Yes, I understand. I have asked this since I have read that in Holland on example the Italian long term permit for stay was taken from the holder in order to issue Holland permit for stay.


It is correct and I understand completely.

Thank you once again for the time dedicated to my problem and have a nice day.

Hallo ,

ich hatte letztes Jahr ähnlichen Fall-  sollte mit  einem Daueraufenthalt EU aus BRD in Österreich arbeiten.

Da es Transfer innerhalb des  Konzern gewesen wäre,  war  ein Erlaubnis in Österreich unproblematisch . Nur ganz am Ende der Prozedure meinte die Dame in Magistrat, dass mir die Deutschen Behörden  meinen Daueraufenthalt entziehen werden.

Bei KVR habe ich die gleiche Antwort bekommen- nach 6 Monate müsste ich entscheiden wo und mit welchen Titel ich bleibe.
Ich habe mich nur gewundert über den Sinn und Zweck des Titels, musste aber akzeptieren und in Deutschland bleiben.
Jetzt lese ich hier etwas über 6 Jahre Aufenthalt außerhalb Deutschland. Da  das Thema  Auslandsaufenthalt bei mir nicht ganz weg vom Tisch ist, wäre ich sehr dankbar für die Info.

Grüsse,
Cherry