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Hello, Nairlanders, pls 4 doz of u in Germany, how do i amend my 5yrs residence there to have there residence permit
i married a bulgarian lady in greece and my 5yrs residence just came out but i want to live and work in germany, guys how do i go about it

juzme:

It is better you face the reality. In Germany it will not be easy at the moment for you to obtain residence card. This is because your wife will need to obtain a work permit in germany before she can get regisered. She need to get a job first before she cant get registered in Germany.
And you may end up losing your Residence card in Greece if you stay out of the country for a long time. You wife can benefit to EU regulation on freedom of movement only by visiting without visa and can stay up to 90 days in Germany. She can search for job as well and if she find then she can apply for work permit. It only after she has done this that you will have to register as a spouse of EU citizen.
My advise for you is that if your wife should try search for work in Germany if she find then good for both of you. But if she cannot find then, it is better you wait after Bulgaria transitional period expires which I think will be soon.

Freiburger:


Do Eu citizens need a work permit to work in other Eu countries?

juzme:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3513889.stm




If u look at what Germany is refering to in that page u will find out that they 're fefering to the eastern europeans countries like ukraine croatia n so on, not the full Eu citizens like Bulgaria. i know a lot of the Eeastern Europeans woking here on the EU permit.
@ poster, no you dont need any special lawer to help u with any document all you need when u get to Germany is for your wife to go n get herself a job and getting a job in Germany can sometimes be very challenging, but it also depends on her qualification and her level of knowledge of the German Language, in any case it still all depends on the kind of job she will want to do, gastronomie jobs for example don't need much language in carring out the duties.
As to whether he will loose his 5yrs greece residency, its obvious that if you leave your country of resideny for some time without explaining to the related authority, u 're bound to loose your resident permit. The couples are not coming to Germany for a sometime i guess they are planing to live permanently in Germany as working class couples, that's why i think if the poster already decided where i wants to live. and the Eu rule states that: the resident permit for an Eu citizen's spouse should be issued within 6months from the date of application, i 've seen cases here in Germany where the resident parmit was issue the same day of application and i 've heard cases in the uk where the eu citizen spouse have to wait for over a year, so it all depends on the individual cases.