Moving to Germany from UK after Brexit 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪

So it seem's my friends and family in both England and Germany are curious on what it's like now. Well this is just tiny bit on what to expect when moving as of December 2021. It's pretty crazy to be honest from 2019 to now so much has changed a lot more paperwork is required.
#brexit #move #visa #visum

[LaureninGermany]

It is nerve wracking, I totally agree. But more so in Germany I find. It really depends on the town, though. I moved here before Brexit as a student, and it seemed like a lot of paperwork then, too. I became a German citizen (woah, so much paperwork!) when they were planning Brexit as I can hold both passports, at the moment anyway. If I had known, I‘d have done it earlier. It’s hard to give up your original nationality, no matter how much you love your new country.
Glad to have found your channel, I‘m really enjoying your videos.

[awesomedude]

I hope you'll find Germany great and you'll enjoy your life here!

[kablg]

Good for you mate! I'm from Bulgaria and went to England for a year to improve my English skills(got my C1 certificate there) before Brexit and I could say I was planing on moving there(UK) after I have graduated from university. But Brexit impacted us Eastern EU migrants a lot. It felt unnecessarily hard for some of us(including me) to move there because we were EU citizens and with other rich EU countries you could go to because of the ''freedom of movement'' it felt UK was just not worth it. So I plan on moving to Germany as well but afraid of the language a bit still I think I could master it in 2-3 years(at least a B2 level). I also believe and heard Germany is better than the UK in living conditions and other aspects so its a win for British people moving there as well. Any way hope you the best in your future life in Germany and hope you become a British-German dual citizen one day so you feel that moving was worth it in the long run :)

[horserous]

Thanks to Brexit agreement as an 'old British', already resident in DE, all they asked me for was the fingerprints, a photo and 37euro. I used an agent though. I had prepared though, certificates, health insurance, recent projects, financial status, but this came to nothing. As a citizen of another EU state decided not to exercise the FoM on this occasion. The residence card simply allows me to remain and carry out independent work in Germany. I don't even speak German, it is too hard.

[hannahbielby]

Congratulations , i would loved to move to germany 🇩🇪 x

[alexanderpracher]

I hope You get a lot of pleasure in Germany. It is sad to leave the home country, when YOu have had good experience there. Just fine if You only feel boring.

[clash]

I really like your videos. But may I give you a little improvement suggestion? It would look a lot better if you would look directly into the camera lens instead of watching yourself talk. So then it seems as if you are talking to us ☺️

[theopuscula]

Achtung* And we don't pay in Uhus, even in Germany.

[mfiggon]

Very informative video. Can I ask why you chose down the route of getting the six month visa, as opposed to using the 90 days of visa-free entry that a UK passport allows? Was this just to allow yourself a longer time in the country to find a job? As I understand it, whether you enter with or without a Visa-D, you can't start work until you get the residence permit regardless. Is there any other benefit to the 6-month visa-D over 3 months of via free entrance?
Thanks in advance for any guidance

[lindenbeck]

You should have come to Germany before Brexit.
A friend of mine moved from Norwich to Berlin in 2019 and he didn‘t need to apply for a visa

[claudiafigueiredo]

How sad when before brexit you could do that freely

[gerdpapenburg]

How comes that the visa has cost you about 260 pounds?
German Embassy fee = €75 or £63.90
TLC service fee = €28 or £32.90
total visa application fee = €103 or £96.80

[nelsonholtz]

Hello!

Thanks for making this video, very helpful and reassuring it to know someone has done what I'm planning to do!!

I'm looking to move around the start of next year. I was wondering about the health insurance you took? And where you found it? I'm guessing its private, but is there also a public one? I've heard some expensive numbers for health insurance and wanted to know the process you took. And now living in Germany has your health insurance changed?

Quite a few questions, but would be very grateful if you could lead me to the right direction :)

[misterbacon]

You are one of the first of the big British braindrain! Congrats!

[ce]

Before 2016, people in general never thought about what the difference would be outside the EU - just shows the huge difference and barriers to non-EU citizens...

[averagestan]

I came 2 months before the cut off point and they just gave me my permanent residency for like 75 euros. Same with a mate of mine. I just needed my registration of where I’m living and that obviously costs 12 euros but everyone needs that every time you move house/apartment. Really happy I moved before all this and now I can just freely move back and forth.
It seems like such a pain now.

[lukerowland]

Very interesting. Was looking at moving to Denmark after uni but because of Brexit its easier for me to head out to Canada 🇨🇦

[neilfazackerley]

Long term private health insurance is not recommended if you plan to stay in Germany long term. Firstly it is very hard to get the state health insurance later once you have been in the private system and secondly the insurance gets more expensive the older you are.

[DomiTravels]

the video sadly hasnt any value for me as a german citizen. but lemme tell you, it would bloody look better if you would change the plastic bottle for a whiskey glass :D ! also if you need any job help, i can support, but mostly in frankfurt hamburg berlin. except youre okay with working visa homeoffice. then there are more possibilitys. fluent english helps you quite a lot, i worked for nearly 10 years with people that didnt speak fluent german but english instead. dont expect to find a job at a bakery, but international companys wont have an issue hiring you.

[gregprouse]

This is nothing compared the Bureaucracy you will have to endure in Germany. Work, Rental Apartments, Registration papers of self and living place and the list goes on. When you then go to the Bureau they will take a ridiculous amount of time to process then contact you with the bits of information they lost or you didnt provide making you start from scratch that particular process. In the meantime if the others expire due to taking too long then the shit storm sound negative....but it aint....Pure Truth from self experience and all other expats who have moved there. As long as you are prepared fro this - you will find it much easier than most. I personally think all that aside you will be fine and 100% you will smash it. Los Gehts! :)