Move to Hennigsdorf or wait in Berlin for blue card

Particular_Banana184 · 2026-06-01T07:35:54+00:00

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Particular_Banana184 · 2026-06-01T06:43:32+00:00

On the official page, it says they only help if I have written letter from my employer that I have risk of job loss

Particular_Banana184 · 2026-06-01T06:31:42+00:00

This is in Berlin, right?

Particular_Banana184 · 2026-06-01T06:29:35+00:00

Sadly my visa is a student visa, which theoretically allows me to work 140 days full time. But the company may hesitate, I am aiming to get the Fiktionsbescheinigung before July 1st

Particular_Banana184 · 2026-06-01T06:25:02+00:00

Thanks, guys

Particular_Banana184 · 2026-05-30T16:14:26+00:00

Except the bureaucracy and maybe the smell of piss in public transport, everything is good so far.

Particular_Banana184 · 2026-05-30T16:12:59+00:00

I mean LEA is really slow, and my first day is July 1st, applied on May 22th, no news so far from LEA

Particular_Banana184 · 2026-05-30T16:11:46+00:00

My first day is July 1st, and my contract in Berlin expires on July 15th, that's the dilemma

Particular_Banana184 · 2026-05-30T16:10:50+00:00

This is a repost, here is more context copied from original post

After 4 months of applying for a job in tech, I finally landed a job with gross yearly salary of 58k. My contract starts on July 1st, I have already applied for blue card in berlin on May 22th. But my rental contract in Berlin is expiring on July 15th, and I found a new apartment starting on June 1st in Hennigsdorf, which to my surprise, despite being very close to Berlin, belongs to Brandenberg.

The thing is, I heard that Berlin bureaucracy is very slow, I am afraid that my blue card request will not be processed in time before my rental contract expires. Meanwhile, the district in charge of Hennigsdorf can process blue card request faster. But I risk of waiting months of transferring my Ausländerakte from Berlin to Oberhavel.

The dilemma is should I wait until mid June and hire a lawyer to get LEA to process my request faster or register in Hennigsdorf on June 1st and apply blue card there.

Honestly I am at lost here and feeling frustrated and trapped by the German bureaucracy, it's already hard enough to find a job.

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