The debate surrounding a so-called " employer approval procedure " is a recurring theme in the field of labor migration law . Lawyers and experts like Bettina Offer and Dr. Sebastian Klaus have been advocating for years that employers who regularly employ foreign skilled workers should be more closely involved in these procedures. But what is the rationale behind this idea, and how realistic is its implementation? What is meant by an employer approval procedure? Currently, it is almost...

Imagine you've found the perfect IT specialist for your team after a months-long, global search. They're based in Bangalore, the offer has been made, and the project is ready to go. But now begins the traditional, tedious battle with bureaucracy: The employment contract has to be printed, signed, sent halfway around the world by courier, countersigned there, and sent back again, only to finally form the basis for the visa application at the German embassy weeks later. Time is money, and...

Behind every successful skilled worker immigration process lies a precise bureaucratic machinery, designed in theory to guarantee fairness. However, in practice, our firm repeatedly witnesses highly qualified talent from third countries and ambitious medium-sized businesses running up against an invisible wall: the wage review by the Federal Employment Agency (BA) . What was intended as a safeguard against wage dumping is increasingly becoming a rigid instrument that ignores the economic...