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People who moved from the UK/on a British passport?
I lived in Berlin for a bit as an au pair (you might have seen my previous post!). Things were tricky visa wise, and I can't really stay in Berlin and… Apologies if this is better suited elsewhere...
I lived in Berlin for a bit as an au pair (you might have seen my previous post!). Things were tricky visa wise, and I can't really stay in Berlin and get a job so easily on a UK passport. I met/overheard a fair few English people in the city though! I'm curious to know if there are any on here who intentionally wanted to move to Berlin, and how I can go about it (re. Sponsorship etc).
I have to finish my undergrad here in London, but after that I'd love to move back.
(I have received a lot of hatred in my DMs when I posted something like this before - I realise I'm a part of the problem when wanting to move to Berlin, but it's the same in London where I am from, and London is god awful expensive ;( )
honestly the brits i know here mostly got here through one of three routes: a company transfer, a blue card through a skilled job (tech is the obvious one), or they married a german. the sponsorship route is real but it's a pain because most employers don't want to deal with the ausländerbehörde paperwork unless you're in a field where they can't find someone locally. if you're finishing undergrad in london, look into the "chancenkarte" thing that's supposed to launch soon, it's basically a points-based jobseeker visa for people who aren't eu citizens. also worth checking if your degree qualifies you for a 6-month jobseeker visa after graduation, that's how a friend of mine got her foot in the door at a startup near alexanderplatz
ngl the blue card salary threshold is the real gatekeeper here. for 2025 it's like 43k euros for most fields and 39k for shortage occupations like engineering or IT. if you're not in those fields it's tough but not impossible
one thing nobody mentions is the freelancer visa. if you've got any kind of remote client work or can line up a few german clients before you move, it's surprisingly doable. you need proof of income and a good reason for being in berlin specifically. i know a graphic designer and a writer who both got it. the ausländerbehörde at friedrich-krause-ufer is a nightmare but the freelancer route is way less competitive than finding a company to sponsor you
also check if your uni has any exchange programs or partnerships with berlin universities. even a semester abroad can get you a foot in the door with the job market here. the studentenwerk runs some cheap housing near the ringbahn that's way easier to get than the general market
yeah the tech route is def the most common one i've seen, but also a bunch of people i know got in through doing a masters here first - tuition is basically free compared to the UK and it buys you time to network and find a job that'll sponsor you. if you're finishing undergrad in london, maybe look into a masters at like FU or TU Berlin, gives you a student visa and a foot in the door with the job market after
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.
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