Dear everyone,

I wanted to apply for citizenship, but I am not sure if I am elligible. Before, I go to the ausländerbehörde, I was hoping somebody could tellme what to expect. The following is my status:

I have been in Germany for a total of 7 years now. I did my Bachelor Degree in Biochemistry here. Now, I am doing my PhD in the same field and am expected to finish in March 2011. For the phd I was on a stipend, so I did not pay taxes, or rentenversicherung and I am registered as a student. My supervisor has agreed to keep me as a postdoc after I finish my PhD on a standard BAT II contract (This is a Befristet contract, which i suppose will be for 2-3 years). Given my situation, do you think I would be elligible to apply for citizenship immediately when I start the postdoc position, or would I have to wait longer? I appreciate the input very much.

Best,
Nikhil

Until you hold a proper job it is not possible to get GE. Try if you can get your NE first. Just drop into the Foreign office and enquire.

1. Yes you need a job for the citizenship and once you have BAT II contract, it is a job
2. You dont need to go to foreigners office or ausländerbehörde but to einbürgerungsbehörde
3. Though it is not a must, you should try to get a Niederlassungslerlaubnis für Hochqualifizierte under § 19 AufenthG as it makes getting citizenship easy. You need your professor to give you a nice recommendation letter with all your papers published
4. There is a special category of discretionary citizenship (the Government of the state decides) for certain categories, for example highly qualified people, sportsmen, etc even if some requireents are not fulfilled (example less than 8 years, no rentenversicherung paid, etc) § 8 StaG. This paragraph itself just says that people can get citizenship earlier. The details of when this can happen is in the Anwendungshinweise (http://www.info4alien.de// go to Einbürgerung)

These paragraphs § 8, § 10 etc can be looked up in http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/

IF YOU HAVE MORE QUESTIONS, GO AND GET CONSULTING FROM CITIZENSHIP OFFICE.

Hi to all,

I have some questions regarding the pension payment for German citizens in other country.

1. Suppose a German Citizen spends his/her life in another country (Asia). I think after 65/67 years pension will be deposited in their account in Asia. For this are they need to visit Germany frequently to get their Pension?

2. Is there any Specific time gap for visiting (Germany)?

3. If not how can German Authorities know that this person is still alive?

Thank you
Justdoit

I assume:

1. No, they do not need to visit Germany physically to get their pension.

2. No.

3. Probably they will require some sort of documents so that they know that the person is still alive (as similar as here).

By the way, do you think it is good to post the same questions in several threads of this forum? You simply should not "justdoit" what you want :-p (it may disturbing for others).

Thanks....

P.S: Sorry to others for posting the same answers in different threads!

@niksasi

can you update on your status please???

@supersid
Does applying for NE using §19 require income of >66K for scientist too? I think a normal postdoc position (BAT II as Nikhil refers too) is way less that >66K.

No minimum salary requirements for scientists etc.

only for managerial/specialist staff working in companies.example IT specialist