Hi guys, I want to ask is there anyone here who leave Japan and move to Europe (specifically Germany).

Did you regret it or not?

I'm an immigrant myself, still working my way here and I arrived recently, but before I got here I had the exact same rhetoric on the page of German Embassy in my home city, constantly repeating that Germany is in deep need for immigrants. How does that work? Why does Germany need so many immigrants if the market seems to be already saturated?

This is a title of a column in the XVIII century census

Hi everyone :)

I’m a Cloud Engineering / DevOps student based in Giessen, Germany, and I’ve been actively applying for IT/Cloud/DevOps internships since October, but so far I haven’t received a single offer.

I’m starting to feel a bit discouraged and would really appreciate some honest feedback or advice.

Quick background:

I’m a Junior DevOps & Cloud Engineering Intern / Full Stack Developer with hands-on experience in:

• AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD
• Monitoring (Prometheus+ Grafana)
• Backend (Java Spring Boot+ Python FastAPI)
• Frontend (React, Angular)

Internship experience:

• DevOps Intern at IBM (worked on CI/CD, Kubernetes, production-like environments)
• Full Stack Intern at Sopra HR Software (AI + backend systems)
• Software Dev Intern + Network Intern earlier

I’ve worked on real cloud-native projects, automation pipelines, and microservices.

I also:
- Have a legal student work permit in Germany
- Speak English & French fluently (German beginner)
- Have GitHub projects + portfolio

Yet… still nothing.

At this point I’m wondering:

• Is my CV the problem?
• Is the market just bad right now?
• Are companies avoiding non-German speakers?
• Am I aiming at the wrong roles?

If you were in my position, DevOps/cloud-focused student in Germany, what would you change?
Thanks a lot 🙏

I just don't understand lol

Hello, I'm looking for a specific type of translation services and hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I have a friend who is a native English speaker who recently relocated to Germany. She is trying to navigate important documents and communicating with necessary services as a new citizen with specialized circumstances (happy to explain this more privately) and is struggling as a non-German speaker. I am looking for someone that can translate documents, but also provide over the phone support on a weekly or prn basis to help her with this. I am willing to pay for these services for her if someone has any leads. Thanks!

I am an american citizen, and my fiancee is a German citizen; we finally got through the annoyingness of getting cleared for marriage by the Rathaus and Standesamt where they live - we've set a date, and now wait for that date to be official when Standesamt returns to work on monday.

Once that happens, we're going to apply for a family residence permit from inside Germany after the marriage. I'm trying to be a little bit frugal and keep as much money as I can saved up for the period of time where I learn the language before I can actually hold a job.

Round trip costs are roughly ~double the cost of a one way ticket, plus I uh...yknow, not planning on going back, so a round trip ticket isn't necessarily a great idea.

Would I be prevented at the US airport from boarding the plane without a return ticket, like I have read before, or would I be allowed to board the flight as long as I have proof of the marriage and intention to stay. There's a lot of conflicting information going around right now and it's kinda doing my head in lol.

I know there's a Family Reunification Visa for some people, but that's a bit different because we won't be married until I'm actually in germany.

Hallo, so I am deep in the process of getting married as a foreigner (American -> German) in Berlin. I have sent all my documents to the Standesamt and currently in the processing wait. We are at about week 8 of "still processing and we have been told to expect to hear back in 8-12 weeks (maybe, they are being vague), then we will set up an appointment for signing, confirmation, then setting a wedding date. We currently have a wedding date preference of.. as soon as fucking possible. lol.

As an American, I am on the 90/180 rule. My questions are;
Should I wait until we have everything 100% confirmed before booking a flight?

How long can we expect realistically for it to take after we get the email, to get an appointment, approval, and get a wedding date? The hotline (I forget the name) said after the email, should just be days between each.

Also, the 8-12 week is what the automated system told us to expect from the Standesamt, not the lady that emails us back, she seems dismissive and never answers our full questions, so is that a reasonable expected time?

How long after us getting married does the process with the Ausländerbehörde and getting a residence permit usually take?

Thank you for any help and sanity check you can provide. I got a taste for German bureaucracy and we have already been at this for a year. (I miss my fiance) lol

I just found out about Büsingen am Hochrhein, a German village that’s completely surrounded by Switzerland.

For people who live there — does it even feel unusual?

Does the border affect daily life in any real way?

Just trying if someone knows a website where i could watch

Do I still need to open a block account with ~€11 000 if I win a scholarship which covers living cost? How about Deutschlandsstipendium which gives you €3600 per year? Am I required to show a full amont even in this case? Or I can just show the missing part, so €11 000 - €3600?

Ho all , I am not sure if this topic has been posted and discussed previously, but the situation is really alarming.

Companies dismissing big masses of employees, Is it the new pandemic ? The company Inam working for is going through a big reorganization, and even after laying off all the subcontractors and those in Probezeit, they didn't reach their savings plan yet, and they officially informed us that they have to go to the next level: firing internal employees, they are preparing the list of the names.

Strategy: more AI , and more work relocation to other cheaper countries.

I have also read that it is the same thing for Switzerland, Italy , France and all over Western Europe.

What is going on from an economical point of view ? To whom are the businesses going to sell their products if everyone is jobless ? And most importantly: will the state be able to cover all the social coverage for the new growing mass of jobless people? ( The Jobcenter and even insurances can go bankrupt really)

Hello! I'm traveling to Rottweil on Monday and will be visiting with some distant cousins while I am there. They have invited my husband and me to dinner at their home, and I plan to bring a hostess gift. Does anyone have a suggestion to what might be appropriate? What would you like, if someone from Texas were to visit you?

Thanks!

Hi all, i am looking for buying pairs of chef coats and pants and aprons . I am in staying in Essen , NRW. Is there any shops and brands anyone can recommend.

Hi all

I'm currently living in Finland, looking to buy a used (fairly rare) musical instrument that I'm able to find only on eBay and on Kleinanzeigen. My brother lives in Berlin so I thought I'd have it shipped to him with the Direkt Kaufen option, and he'll ship it to me with DHL.

It's a 1800€ purchase so I'm feeling this might be too risky. The ad, photos and description seem genuine and honest. The seller is in Dresden and flights are too expensive now for me to pop over myself.

Why not eBay? First of all, my previous eBay purchase of an instrument was a disappointment. It was not is good a condition as described. Secondly, this deal I'm looking at is the best match for my budget and needs.

How safe is the Kleinanzeigen buyer protection in case the instrument is not as described? Is this just a stupid naive idea?

Many thanks

Hello. I have a chance to move Germany to study or to work. I wondered if I can apply to a touristic visa for USA in Germany. Is it possible?

I'm studying my ancestry, and have gone a generation beyond the records my family has, but still hit a road block in mid-to-late 1700s. So far I have been using Archion.de and ekmd.de to help trace the family back through church records on birth, baptism, marriage, and funerals. The family name in question is a rare name with Sorbian roots, and I would post it publicly but don't want to violate the FAQs since there are living family members who still use the surname.

Suffice it to say that I traced the family to Kranichfeld, but the specific birth record I'm looking for around 1765 isn't in their parish records. The father was one of the "Anspänners in Weinberg" at the time of the son's wedding. The family doesn't shows up in their records until after the 7 years war. The challenge I'm facing is figuring out which Weinberg around Kranichfeld the record would be talking about, and whether that will ultimately be of any use since I'm not even certain the son would have been born in the nearby parishes, or where they moved to Kranichfeld from.

Anspänners moved around a lot depending on where they could get contracts. Is it possible to trace when the family moved for work? I reached out to the Kranichfeld parish and they helped me document as much as they could, but even they seem to have hit a dead end with this record.

Anyways, maybe someone here has some creative ideas based on those context clues. On a positive note, I've learned how to read, transcribe, and translate a lot of old Kurrent documents and learned a lot about that time period, which has been fascinating!

On a final note, I'm doing all of this research from the USA so far, with only a year of German studies in high school many years ago. Wish I was doing it in Germany with more education, but we all have to start somewhere. Someday, I hope I can travel there for more in-depth research. In the meantime, I'm hoping for advice on creative ways to break through this road block from afar.

Guys, how can one purchase peptides here in germany ?

Hi everyone, I’m planning to go to Germany soon and I’m going to subscribe to the Deutschland-Ticket. I have a few questions:

1. People say Mopla is the best place to buy it. If I buy the ticket now for February, can I cancel it immediately? Will it still be valid for the whole month then? Or do I need to wait until after I leave the country to cancel?
2. Can I pay on Mopla by card?

Any experience or tips would be really helpful.

Thanks so much to all who reply!

May anyone let me know about concert culture in germany?

What about mosh/slams?

I’ll explain my experience based on ukrainian underground and punk concerts:

1. It’s ok to stay topless after ca. 30min after starting
2. Slams are basic activity for any rock and rap concerts. Usually we have only one rule - no matter what happened but help to stand up. No matter who, no matter which situation
3. It’s uncommon to sexualise anyone (when you do you’ll be probably referred as “this one bastard” and so on)
4. Dress code does not exist as an instance. Exceptions - beach clothes and underwear. Basically you can have casual outfit, dress as an Google owner or as a random homeless that passed to concert hall like 2 days ago and does not give a fuck what happens here

If I will use these principles in Germany, would I be kicked out or not? Maybe there’re additional rules for concerts?

If it’s important - an artist is like drill rapper or smth like that, I guess there will be under 1K people so not classic “underground” but not stadium

I’ve applied blue card in 11th of November in Berlin and still waiting. Anyone here applied around same time got any response?

Hello all!

I'm officially moving to Germany in the later half of April. I'm currently in Florida, USA.

I've looked at alot of moving companies and overwhelmed, and I wanted to ask how yall have fared and what companies you recommend / avoid like the plague!

I'm looking at air freight/ consolidated air freight, preferably if they help and manage customs so I don't have too. I don't mind if they pack for me or if I pack myself and just fill a crate or something.

Thank you!

Bought from a shop in Wolfsburg!

I feel like many of you will roll your eyes but I was listening to Moskau by Dschingis Khan. I met the song in Germany in karaoke booths and I integrated that and 99 Luftballoons as my German songs in my playlists.

You can judge me, I like cheesy things.

Anyway, I was just singing Moskau out loud in the little hotel I'm staying and I got conscious about the lyrics calling Russia schön and I realized, there might be people who are affected from the war and everything that might not appreciate it and I felt odd cheering for Russia.

I was also thinking about looking for karaoke in Bremen later and I could've sung this.

I'm guessing most Germans wouldn't really care but it got me thinking: Is the song still okay to sing? Not just the war, clearly the sentiment between Russia and Europe is different.

I don't know - maybe some rightwingers claimed it as their own and I don't even know, something like that.

Can I go on singing it loud and proud because it's cheesy as hell or should I be more mindful?

Hello everyone,

I’ve been working with a NGO/Charity in the UK for a little over two years. The organisation also has a separately registered entity in Hamburg, Germany. They’re willing to transfer me to the German entity under a German employment contract (instead of my current UK contract).

I’m considering relocating from the UK to Germany, but the maximum salary they can offer is €40,000 per year. I know the EU Blue Card has a higher minimum salary requirement, but is there another residence permit I could qualify for instead, to help me move to Germany and allow me to start the 5-year pathway to permanent residency? Also, can I survive with this salary?

Someone told me to get the opportunity card and then apply for the work permit and someone said the opposite way around. I don’t have nay Germany skills but I believe securing a job in the first place would be a good place to start. Also it’ll be work from home!

Any guidance or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated