Moving to Germany as a Software Engineer (Part 2)
What options are available for a Software Engineer?
This is my first series of stories, that I decided to share with a wider audience. In this series, I am sharing stories about my learning experience about “How I moved to Germany as a Software Engineer?” For simplicity and your valuable time, I have divided this into multiple parts. Links are at the end. Links are at the bottom.
Well, Germany provides multiple options for different categories of employees to move with Work Visa, Blue Card, Job Seeker Visa or Student Visa. Blue card visas and Job Seeker visas are the easiest way to move to Germany for working professionals.
Blue Card Visa
Blue card visa is for qualified academic professionals in IT, Engineering, or Medical. So it's quite simple and straightforward, if you are a qualified person, you can easily get a job and your employer will sponsor your blue card visa. A Blue Card visa is always tied to your employer.
So the employer tells the German government, for a job like AWS Cloud Architect, “we did not find a person in Germany with such a skill, we would like to invite this guy from that country to work with us”. That is it. Once you get a job offer from your employer, the rest of the visa process and…
