Hello,

I have a job offer from a company in Germany. I will be living/working at a client site in a different city. Will my workpermit be tied to the location of my potential employer head office? Am I allowed to live/work in a different city?

Would really appreciate any help in this regard.

if that company is a client company for your company then you can work. its no problem.

Unfortunately yes.. It is tied to that city only. You need to get the permission (to transfer the workpermit to the new place) from Arbeitsamt before you start working at the clients place. I have first hand exp with the offshore people who come here on workpermit. They come here and wait until they get the new work permit at clients place.

But so far its been fairly easy process to change it to new place. Ur company can actually talk to arbeitsamt and request them to do it fast.

I also know some TCS guys who came to munich on a project and after working for an year there they were placed in different project in duesseldorf. When they went for visa extension there they said u cant work here... so they went back to india to get a new workpermit.

Unfotunately its a crazy process... I really dont understand how it makes any difference where u work if u r working for the same company.

Anyway u can try what i said.. it hardly takes about 2 weeks... Good luck.

vamsi.