If I attend a university in Germany will I be able to get a job?
I'm an American citizen and I wish to go to a university in Germany after I graduate high school. My family is not rich, therefore I would need a way of making some money. I want to do this though because I would really like to live in Germany since I'm German American and have a great interest in Germany. Can foreign students get a regular job while in university? Also, to make extra money could I teach English to children? I guess you would call it freelance work, giving children lessons in English since I'm a native speaker. Is this possible in addition to a regular student job?
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As American citizen you will need a student visa to study in Germany and a student visa allows you only to work part time. If you work as freelance be aware of the complicated tax system do not work without declaring that would be taxfraud a very serious criminal offense over here. But usually students can get enough jobs the only problem might result if you intend to finance your entire living on your own working only part time that is very hard to do if not impossible.
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See here. page 3: http://www.daad.de/imperia/md/content/de/deutschland/downloads/das_medizinstudium_in_deutschland.pdf Yes, the document is in German - but you're going to have to read, write, speak and understand German in order to be able to study medicine here.
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You can work on the many bases here in Germany.
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If you're in an EU country as a non-EU national on a student visa, you will NOT be allowed to work. And you certainly won't be allowed to tutor children without some kind of police clearance - we ARE talking about Germany here. If you want to live in any EU country, it's very very difficult without EU nationality, and it's pretty much impossible if you don't speak the local language. As I understand it, if you were to apply for German nationality, you would be required to give up your US nationality. If you haven't been to Germany, arrange for some kind of exchange programme there first to see if you actually like it. Spending 3 months there would sort that out for you, try the Wooffer programme.
