TIRANA, Dec. 2 – Starting next year, Germany will make it easier for workers from the Balkans to legally work in Germany under a program that will allow 20,000 workers annually to apply for work visas, the State Secretary at the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, Anette Kramme, told Germany’s Deutsche Welle public broadcaster.
The law will be valid until 2020, and Kramme said that migrants from the region will be able to apply as high or low skilled workers, through special categories that are short of professionals.
Another condition is that the German Federal Agency of Labor should give its consent and guarantee that no German or other EU candidate is available for that job, while the work conditions should be equal.
The program comes at a time when tens of thousands of Albanians and others have applied for asylum in Germany, which they have zero chance of getting, according to German authorities.
