Applying for an employment permit for persons with a residence permit
Description
If you are in an ongoing asylum procedure, employment is only permitted if this is expressly stated in your residence permit. If you wish to work, you must therefore apply for an employment permit from the Foreigners' Registration Office. This also applies to vocational training or an internship.
If you have been permitted to stay in Germany for three months, are no longer obliged to live in an initial reception center for asylum seekers (also known as a reception center, arrival center or anchor center) and have already found an employer who would like to employ you, you may be permitted to work.
To process your application, the foreigners authority usually involves the Federal Employment Agency, which will check the working conditions. After more than four years of uninterrupted residence in Germany, the Federal Employment Agency no longer needs to be involved.
If you would like to complete company-based vocational training (dual training), the employment permit for the specific training position must be applied for individually. Vocational training at school does not require approval.
The employment permit is issued for the duration of the approval of the Federal Employment Agency, at the longest until the residence permit expires.
The following restrictions apply:
You are generally prohibited from taking up gainful employment as long as you are obliged to live in an initial reception center. Only if your asylum procedure has not been completed within nine months can you be permitted to work.
If you are an asylum seeker from a so-called "safe country of origin", i.e. from a member state of the European Union, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ghana, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (North Macedonia), Montenegro, Senegal or Serbia, and have submitted your asylum application after August 31, 2015, you cannot obtain a work permit during the asylum procedure.
Asylum seekers whose asylum procedure has been rejected as manifestly unfounded or inadmissible and whose appeal has not been granted suspensive effect also have no access to the German labor market.
- You are in possession of a valid residence permit.
- You are not obliged to live in a reception center and have been permitted to stay in Germany for three months.
- You are obliged to live in a reception center, but your asylum procedure has not been concluded incontestably within nine months and you do not come from a safe country of origin.
- Although you come from a safe country of origin, you submitted your asylum application before August 31, 2015.
- An employer has offered you a specific job and completed the "Declaration of employment" form.
- The conditions under which you will work in the future are comparable to those of German employees.
- Your salary corresponds to the salary of German employees.
- Valid residence permit
- Identity document (e.g. passport or passport substitute), if available
- "Declaration of employment" form (to be completed in full by the employer)
- In individual cases, the foreigners authority may require less or further proof.
The employment permit is issued free of charge.
Permission to work should be applied for before concluding an employment contract.
The epermit is limited in time for the duration of the approval of the Federal Employment Agency, at the longest until your residence permit expires.
- Appeal against the decision of the immigration authority
- Legal action before the court named in the notice of objection if the objection is not upheld
The foreigners authority responsible for the applicant's place of residence is responsible.
Informal application possible: No
Personal appearance necessary: Yes
- Find out whether your foreigners authority allows you to apply online or has a special application form.
- If the application can only be submitted in person, send the "Declaration of employment" form completed by your employer to the immigration office in advance and make an appointment at the immigration office. If you apply online, the Foreigners' Registration Office will contact you after receiving your application to arrange an appointment.
- During the appointment, your identity and documents will be checked (please bring your documents to the appointment, in the original if possible).
- As a rule, the foreigners authority will ask the Federal Employment Agency for approval.
- If the employment permit is granted, a corresponding entry will usually be made on the residence permit (under "ancillary provisions") or in a supplementary sheet.
Ministry of the Interior and Municipal Affairs of the State of Brandenburg,
28.01.2022
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- Harz:
- Apply for a certificate of permanent residence for Union citizens entitled to free movement
- Apply for a residence permit for a study-related internship EU
- Apply for a residence permit for self-employed persons who have completed their studies or are working as scientists or researchers
- Apply for a residence permit for the purpose of continuing your studies in another EU country
- Apply for a residence permit for the purpose of employing qualified tolerated persons
- Apply for a residence permit for the purpose of employment as a skilled worker with vocational training
- Apply for a residence permit for the purpose of employment if you have extensive practical professional knowledge
- Apply for a residence permit for the purpose of employment regardless of qualification as a skilled worker
- Apply for a residence permit for the purpose of finding a training place
- Apply for a residence permit for the purpose of studying
- Apply for a residence permit for the recognition of the professional qualification on the basis of an agreement between the Federal Employment Agency
- Apply for a residence permit in the event of a ban on deportation
- Apply for a residence permit to carry out a qualification measure with employment
- Apply for a residence permit to look for a job after completing your studies
- Apply for a residence permit to look for a job after completing your studies
- Apply for a residence permit to look for a job after completing your training
- Apply for a residence permit to take an examination for the recognition of a foreign professional qualification
- Apply for accelerated skilled worker procedure
- Apply for an extension of residence permit for qualified tolerated persons for the purpose of employment
- Apply for an extension of the residence permit for urgent humanitarian or personal reasons
- Apply for an extension of the residence permit if there is a ban on deportation
- Apply for an extension of the residence permit to carry out a qualification measure
- Apply for an extension of the residence permit to continue your studies
- Apply for an extension of the residence permit to work as a civil servant with a German employer
- Apply for extension of residence permit for recognition of professional qualification on the basis of an agreement of the Federal Employment Agency
- Apply for the issuance of a permanent residence card for third-country national family members of citizens of the Union who are entitled to freedom of movement
- Applying for a residence card for family members of Union citizens
- Applying for a residence permit for a parent to join underage Germans
- Applying for a residence permit for children born in Germany
- Applying for a residence permit for exceptional cases of hardship
- Applying for a residence permit for expulsion
- Applying for a residence permit for freelancers
- Applying for a residence permit for job search for skilled workers with vocational training Applying for an extension
- Applying for a residence permit for mobile researchers
- Applying for a residence permit for parents to join a minor foreigner
- Applying for a residence permit for recognition of professional qualifications during employment
- Applying for a residence permit for refugees
- Applying for a residence permit for the purpose of applying to university
- Applying for a residence permit for the purpose of employment in the public interest
- Applying for a residence permit for the purpose of research
- Applying for a residence permit for the purpose of research for beneficiaries of international protection
- Applying for a residence permit for the purpose of school-based vocational training
- Applying for a residence permit for the purpose of school-based vocational training
- Applying for a residence permit for the purpose of training and further education
- Applying for a residence permit for the reunification of a foreign child with a German parent
- Applying for a residence permit for the spouse to join foreigners
- Applying for a residence permit for urgent humanitarian or personal reasons
- Applying for a residence permit for victims of a criminal offense under Sections 232 to 233a StGB
- Applying for a residence permit if you have subsidiary protection
- Applying for a residence permit to attend a general education school
- Applying for a residence permit to carry out a qualification measure
- Applying for a residence permit to look for a job after recognition of foreign professional qualifications
- Applying for a residence permit to look for a job after recognition of foreign professional qualifications
- Applying for a residence permit to look for a job after research activity
- Applying for a residence permit to look for a job after research activity
- Applying for a residence permit to look for a job after vocational training
- Applying for a residence permit to look for a job for qualified professionals with academic training
- Applying for a residence permit to look for a job for skilled workers with vocational training
- Applying for a residence permit to participate in the European Voluntary Service
- Applying for a residence permit to participate in the European Voluntary Service Extension
- Applying for a residence permit to pursue a self-employed activity
- Applying for a residence permit to pursue a self-employed activity extension
- Applying for a residence permit to work as a civil servant for a German employer
- Applying for a settlement permit for EU Blue Card holders
- Applying for a settlement permit for family members of Germans
- Applying for a settlement permit for highly qualified specialists
- Applying for a settlement permit for minor foreign children
- Applying for a settlement permit for recognised persons entitled to asylum and refugees
- Applying for an employment permit for persons with a residence permit
- Applying for an employment permit for persons with tolerated status
- Applying for an extension of a residence permit for freelancers
- Applying for an extension of a residence permit for refugees
- Applying for an extension of the residence permit for children born in Germany
- Applying for an extension of the residence permit for exceptional cases of hardship
- Applying for an extension of the residence permit for mobile researchers
- Applying for an extension of the residence permit for the family reunification of a foreign child to a German parent
- Applying for an extension of the residence permit for the purpose of research
- Applying for an extension of the residence permit for the spouse to join foreigners
- Applying for an extension of the residence permit for victims of a crime
- Applying for an extension of your residence permit to prepare for and study at university
- Extension of residence permit for the purpose of research for beneficiaries of international protection
- Residence permit for family reasons Issue for family reunification of a foreign spouse to a German
- Residence permit for the purpose of employment as a skilled worker with academic training: Apply for extension
- Residence permit for the purpose of employment as a skilled worker with vocational training: Apply for extension
- Residence permit for the purpose of employment in the public interest: Apply for an extension
- Residence permit for the purpose of employment regardless of qualification as a skilled worker: Apply for extension
- Residence permit for the purpose of employment with extensive practical professional knowledge: Apply for an extension
- Residence permit for the purpose of highly qualified employment: Apply for extension
- Residence permit for the purpose of training: Applying for an extension