What exact status does accumulated residence lead to?
The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the status that accumulated residence leads to.
Extended Opportunity Card
GermanyLong-term residence
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What qualifying residence period is required and when does the period begin?
The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the qualifying residence period and when it begins.
Which types of residence count fully, partially or not at all where the official rules specify this?
The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm which types of residence count towards the qualifying period.
What absence/continuity rules affect accumulation of the qualifying residence period?
The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the absence and continuity rules for the qualifying period.
What other major conditions apply, how is the status obtained, and what renewal, document-validity, retention or loss rules matter?
The Opportunity Card is first issued for up to one year (job-search card). On an application made during that stay it can be extended as such for up to two years (follow-up card) if the holder has an employment contract or binding job offer for qualified employment in Germany and the Federal Employment Agency has approved; it is granted only if the person does not qualify for another Section 4 residence permit. Any further extension as an Opportunity Card is excluded. The 20-hour/trial-work limits of the job-search card do not apply to the follow-up card.
See recorded sources
- https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/aufenthg_2004/BJNR195010004.html
(5) Die Chancenkarte wird zunächst für einen Zeitraum von bis zu einem Jahr erteilt (Such-Chancenkarte). Die Chancenkarte kann auf Grund eines während eines Aufenthaltes nach Satz 1 gestellten Antrags um bis zu zwei Jahre als solche verlängert werden, wenn der Ausländer einen Arbeitsvertrag oder ein verbindliches Arbeitsplatzangebot für eine inländische qualifizierte Beschäftigung hat und die Bundesagentur für Arbeit zugestimmt hat (Folge-Chancenkarte). Eine Folge-Chancenkarte wird nur erteilt, wenn der Ausländer die Voraussetzungen für die Erteilung einer anderen Aufenthaltserlaubnis nach Abschnitt 4 nicht erfüllt.
- https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/aufenthg_2004/BJNR195010004.html
Absatz 2 findet auf die Folge-Chancenkarte keine Anwendung. Eine über Satz 2 hinausgehende Verlängerung als Chancenkarte ist ausgeschlossen.
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