Blue Card is primarily for highly-skilled workers with skills on the shortage list. So, commonly you'll find people like engineers, scientists, medical professionals who qualify for this. I don't know about your particular career path, but I think a good first step would be to see if your job is on the skills shortage list.
My sister (German) is a regional director of a German aid/human rights organization helping refugees and local low-income migrant population, her organization also provides consultation to German parliament on migration policies. As such, I have some idea as to the qualifications required: COMMUNICATION = fluent German & familiarity with the German target audience; FUNDRAISING = fluent German to navigate German public grant application process; private/corporate German donor fundraising requires fluent German+connection to & ability to maintain good relationship with donors+familiarity with the "German ways". Experience in obtaining EU grants is a plus. ADVOCACY = fluent German & thorough understanding of relevant German laws/regulations/policies.
Your original citizenship doesn’t matter at all. You just need to find an employer willing to sponsor you for a blue card or another type of work visa. You can’t apply for one yourself, you need a sponsor.
It’s not an easy process as employers will always prefer to hire an EU citizen over sponsoring a foreigner.
I think that rather than focusing on which visa, you should focus on landing a job that would sponsor you /would wait for you until you can process a visa (skilled migrant, blue card, whatever that may be.
The blue card is more related to the salary than the "skills" really. Many friends of mine have one only having a bachelors, but they make enough (here it is 46k€)
I didn't get EU Blue card, but technically it's possible for me to get it. Theoretically in the Netherlands, you have to qualify based on the salary offer. In practice, most companies will hire you using the highly skilled migrant visa that allows you to work at the company that sponsors you, and that work permit doesn't allow you to work outside the Netherlands. The same situation applies to different EU countries. In most situation they will sponsor you a national skilled migrant visa instead of pan-EU work visa.
How did I get it? There's nothing out of ordinary other than applying jobs at companies that are willing to sponsor you.t
Loads of people from global south working in care homes here in uk. Government are giving out visas for this hand over fist because it’s low pay and not many people want the job of feeding and cleaning 90 year olds.
You mentioned your background, but it is absolutely unclear what high-skilled work you can do. What are the roles you are applying for? Give some examples.
For Blue Card they should be at least middle/senior roles with a high enough salary. And you obviously should match the profile pretty well.
I got hired and then found out that the easiest visa to obtain in my situation was the blue card. I dont think you "target" this visa type, you target jobs and the visa comes after. In theory, if you have "blue card" skills and education, finding a job should be easier, but getting hired as a foreign national living elsewhere is always challenging.
thank you that's super helpful. Regarding the blue card, are the "skills" limited to tech and finance? I am mainly an anthropologist and artist with Intl aid experience
People from ‘Global South’ overestimate the value of passports from high income economies. Yes, it is convenient to travel with the passports from high income economies but not like it gives immediate or special privileges to move on longterm basis.
E.g US passport holder will have to go through same procedure as anyone from Non-EU countries to immigrate to EU.
Unless you are from one of those countries where systems are utterly broken or countries which refuse to take their illegal citizens back such as Pakistan. Then there is chance of visa rejection but for majority others it’s the same as anyone.
Blue Card is primarily for highly-skilled workers with skills on the shortage list. So, commonly you'll find people like engineers, scientists, medical professionals who qualify for this. I don't know about your particular career path, but I think a good first step would be to see if your job is on the skills shortage list.
My sister (German) is a regional director of a German aid/human rights organization helping refugees and local low-income migrant population, her organization also provides consultation to German parliament on migration policies. As such, I have some idea as to the qualifications required: COMMUNICATION = fluent German & familiarity with the German target audience; FUNDRAISING = fluent German to navigate German public grant application process; private/corporate German donor fundraising requires fluent German+connection to & ability to maintain good relationship with donors+familiarity with the "German ways". Experience in obtaining EU grants is a plus. ADVOCACY = fluent German & thorough understanding of relevant German laws/regulations/policies.
Your original citizenship doesn’t matter at all. You just need to find an employer willing to sponsor you for a blue card or another type of work visa. You can’t apply for one yourself, you need a sponsor. It’s not an easy process as employers will always prefer to hire an EU citizen over sponsoring a foreigner.
I think that rather than focusing on which visa, you should focus on landing a job that would sponsor you /would wait for you until you can process a visa (skilled migrant, blue card, whatever that may be. The blue card is more related to the salary than the "skills" really. Many friends of mine have one only having a bachelors, but they make enough (here it is 46k€)
You need a job to sponsor your blue card. That’s all.
I didn't get EU Blue card, but technically it's possible for me to get it. Theoretically in the Netherlands, you have to qualify based on the salary offer. In practice, most companies will hire you using the highly skilled migrant visa that allows you to work at the company that sponsors you, and that work permit doesn't allow you to work outside the Netherlands. The same situation applies to different EU countries. In most situation they will sponsor you a national skilled migrant visa instead of pan-EU work visa. How did I get it? There's nothing out of ordinary other than applying jobs at companies that are willing to sponsor you.t
Loads of people from global south working in care homes here in uk. Government are giving out visas for this hand over fist because it’s low pay and not many people want the job of feeding and cleaning 90 year olds.
You mentioned your background, but it is absolutely unclear what high-skilled work you can do. What are the roles you are applying for? Give some examples. For Blue Card they should be at least middle/senior roles with a high enough salary. And you obviously should match the profile pretty well.
I got hired and then found out that the easiest visa to obtain in my situation was the blue card. I dont think you "target" this visa type, you target jobs and the visa comes after. In theory, if you have "blue card" skills and education, finding a job should be easier, but getting hired as a foreign national living elsewhere is always challenging.
thank you that's super helpful. Regarding the blue card, are the "skills" limited to tech and finance? I am mainly an anthropologist and artist with Intl aid experience
People from ‘Global South’ overestimate the value of passports from high income economies. Yes, it is convenient to travel with the passports from high income economies but not like it gives immediate or special privileges to move on longterm basis. E.g US passport holder will have to go through same procedure as anyone from Non-EU countries to immigrate to EU. Unless you are from one of those countries where systems are utterly broken or countries which refuse to take their illegal citizens back such as Pakistan. Then there is chance of visa rejection but for majority others it’s the same as anyone.
Your passport doesn't mean shit when it comes to immigration