WIESBADEN
Let me tell you about Molly.
Molly is an American who used to work for the USA State Department during the Reagan years in Bonn. Later, Molly returned to Europe around 1990 and has worked free-lance in both the Czech Republic and Germany for most of the past 20 years.
As Molly has gotten older, she has tried to get a better social welfare net under her wings--as well as health insurance--but for the past few years in Germany, she has only received a visa to work freelance as trainer, i.e. not a type of visa enabling her to become employed full-time and thus become eligible to receive the benefits of laboring so many years in Europe (in terms of health care and other benefits). In short, Molly has only a freelance visa and being a North American provides little to no benefits in Europe these days.
Belatedly in early 2009, the Riad Family from Canada discovered this same fact about receiving-only-limited-to-poor-help in obtaining proper visas from German officials. The Riads learned the-hard-way that it is often much harder than one would think to either continue receiving visas or to ever receive a renewal of a work visa in Germanyà ??regardless of how many qualifications one has.
The father of the Riad household is Abdul. He had received a well-paying job offer to come to Germany and work in 2007.
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