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Domestic Worker Accompanying a Foreign Household — Up to 90 Days

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What type of worker, employment situation, occupation or professional activity is this pathway actually designed for?

The pathway is designed for domestic workers who, while retaining their habitual residence abroad, accompany their employer or their employer’s family members with habitual residence abroad to Germany for a period of up to 90 days within a period of twelve months.

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  • Section 22, no. 9
    domestic workers who, while retaining their habitual residence abroad, accompany their employer or their employer’s family members with habitual residence abroad to Germany for a period of up to 90 days within a period of twelve months.

Does the applicant need a job offer, employer, sponsor, transfer relationship or other employer involvement? What is important about that employer relationship?

The applicant must be a domestic worker accompanying their employer or the employer’s family members, all with habitual residence abroad.

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  • Section 22, no. 9
    domestic workers who, while retaining their habitual residence abroad, accompany their employer or their employer’s family members with habitual residence abroad to Germany

What are the few decisive professional characteristics of the pathway: occupation, qualifications, experience, salary, skill level, shortage status, labour-market condition or equivalent?

The cited §13 rules apply to domestic workers employed by a person temporarily working in Germany for an overseas employer/company, or by a person employing the worker under the Vienna diplomatic or consular conventions. BeschV §13 requires that person to have employed the domestic worker in the household for at least one year before entry, to care for a child under 16 or a household member needing care. Employment approval lasts only while that employing person stays, with a statutory ceiling of five years. The current §13 text does not establish the route-label limit of 90 days.

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Limits of the record
  • How the route labelled 'up to 90 days' maps to current BeschV §13, which permits employment approval for the employer's stay up to five years, is not established by the captured source.
  • Current BeschV §13 complete domestic-worker provision
    Section 13 Domestic workers of posted persons Approval to engage in employment as a domestic worker in the case of persons who 1.  are temporarily working in Germany for their employer or on behalf of a company seated abroad, or 2.  have employed the domestic worker on the basis of the Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Relations or on Consular Relations, 3.  may be granted if these persons have employed the domestic worker in their household for at least one year prior to their entry into the country to care for a child under the age of 16 or a household member in need of care. Approval is granted for the duration of the stay of the person employing the domestic worker, but for a maximum of five years.

What work does the permission allow? Is the holder tied to an employer, occupation or sector? Can family accompany where clearly established?

The permission allows the domestic worker to accompany their employer or the employer’s family members to Germany for up to 90 days within a period of twelve months. The worker is tied to the employer or employer’s family members they accompany. The official source does not state whether the worker's own family may accompany them.

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Limits of the record
  • The document does not state whether the domestic worker's own family may accompany them.
  • Section 22, no. 9
    domestic workers who, while retaining their habitual residence abroad, accompany their employer or their employer’s family members with habitual residence abroad to Germany for a period of up to 90 days within a period of twelve months.

How long is the permission normally granted for, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction exists if officially stated?

The permission is for a period of up to 90 days within a period of twelve months. The official source does not state renewal or a longer-term residence direction.

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Limits of the record
  • Renewal and longer-term residence direction are not mentioned in the supplied document.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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