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Holiday time is travel time: Useful tips from the Federal Foreign Office for all travel countries.

The time of the school holidays is travel time for many people. For all foreign destinations, the website of the Federal Foreign Office, the German Ministry for Foreign Affairs, provides important tips on what you should bear in mind when planning a trip abroad. Information is available, for example, on the regulations for entering the country, which travel documents are required, whether a visa must be applied for and where it can be obtained. Customs regulations for goods and objects taken along are also explained, as are regulations for entering the country by car.  An important chapter covers health and… Read More

Money for old age: pension insurance is mandatory

In Germany, all employees except civil servants pay a contribution to the statutory pension insurance fund out of their wages. From this—if they have paid in long enough—they receive a pension every month in old age. The statutory pension insurance is an important part of the German social system. Who gets how much can only be clarified in individual cases. From the age of 27, the German pension insurance sends out a letter every year stating, among other things, how much the pension will be. What does the pension insurance pay? The pension insurance pays a pension in old age… Read More

New residence opportunities for asylum seekers in employment or with training

Asylum seekers whose asylum application has not yet been decided on are to be given a “change of track” to facilitate their integration in Germany by means of a right of residence. This is provided for in the revised Skilled Workers Immigration Act, which was passed in the Bundestag and Bundesrat in July. Anyone who is working or has a job offer as a skilled worker and has a recognised vocational qualification can withdraw their asylum application and receive a residence permit. However, this so-called change of track only applies to people who have applied for asylum by 29 March… Read More

Morality police in Iran control headscarf obligation

More and more women in Iran do not wear a hijab in public. This is a symbol of their protest against the regime. A police spokesman has now announced that women without hijabs will be subject to increased controls and punishments. To this end, there are to be more patrols by the morality police again. This is reported by Iranian and international media. Exactly what the tougher punishments will look like is still open. Parliament still has to vote on a draft of the new law. The women’s resistance was triggered by the death of the young Kurdish woman Jina… Read More

Archaeologist Anna collects ancient and Islamic coins in new app game

From July 21, 2023, you can download the free mobile app game “Craveler”, which provides knowledge about ancient and Islamic coins from Syria and Iraq, among other places, in an entertaining way. The main character is the young archaeologist Anna Alaska, who travels back in time in a time machine with her flying robot BIB 3000 from the year 3542 to search for coins in ancient Syria, for example. The gameplay of “Craveler” is inspired by the well-known game “Temple Run”. The game lets a running character navigate through a path blocked with obstacles to collect a historical coin at… Read More

Finances: What Schufa collects data for

By Sylvia Haden and Yana Rudenko Anyone who has completed private insolvency proceedings can now get a fresh start more quickly: Schufa has shortened the storage period for a discharge of residual debt from three years to six months. This was announced by the credit agency on its website. https://www.schufa.de/ueber-uns/presse/pressemitteilungen/schufa-loescht-restschuldbefreiung-sechs-monaten/ This means that six months after the end of the procedure, no one will know that someone was once overindebted and still had outstanding debts. Schufa is thus reacting to ongoing court cases, including those before the European Court of Justice. More about the update: https://www.schufa.de/themenportal/restschuldbefreiung-5-fakten-loeschfrist/ Although almost everyone has… Read More

Study shows: When a job change pays off

A job change pays off especially for skilled workers. On the other hand, those who have no special training for their job and look for a new job as a “helper” actually risk getting worse. Employees whose new job is in a closely related field of activity earn on average 3,500 euros more per year than before. That’s according to the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s study “Better prospects when changing jobs.” “Helpers, on the other hand, are at a disadvantage,” the study states. “They change jobs twice as often as skilled workers and particularly often start out in jobs that are foreign… Read More

Originally a Syrian specialty: damask for kings and nobles

By Oula Mahfouz Damask is a traditional textile fabric known for its remarkable patterning and high quality. The name “damask,” which is also commonly used in German, comes from the Arabic term “damas,” which refers to the city of Damascus in ancient Syria. The word is first documented in German in the 15th century and was adopted from the Italian word “damasto”. This is because Italian merchants first brought the damask fabric to Germany. Originally, damask fabric originated in the ancient Orient and was further developed over time in different cultures. Traditionally, damask was made from threads of silk and… Read More

How income from abroad is taxed

Refugees from Ukraine who live in Germany for more than six months and continue to work for a Ukrainian company from their home office must pay taxes in Germany. This is confirmed by the Ministry of Finance of Baden-Württembrg at the request of tünews INTERNATIONAL. Specifically, after 183 days they reach the status of tax residents and must pay taxes on all their income. Such an employee must then file an income tax return with the tax office of the city in which they reside. The deadline refers to the calendar year or a period of 12 months. Before that,… Read More

Annual Report 2022 on Discrimination in Germany

In 2022, there were a total of 8,827 requests for advice on discrimination to the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (ADS) in Germany. Compared to the previous year, the number of inquiries thus increased by 14 percent, and more than doubled compared to 2019. This is according to the annual report 2022, which the Independent Federal Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Ferda Ataman, presented this week. With a share of 43 percent of inquiries, people most often reported racial discrimination. 27 percent of the cases related to discrimination on the basis of disability, 21 percent because of gender. 10 percent of the inquiries were about… Read More

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