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Ukrainian refugees: the long wait for work permits
Henstedt-Ulzburg. Christina Muller is angry, the Ukrainian Olina is at a loss, the mood in society is depressed. Six women who fled Ukraine have been waiting for work permits for months. One of them was lucky and recently received much-needed confirmation from the Segeberg region. Everyone is waiting.
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Christina Müller of Henstedt-Ulzburg, Volker Manke of the Henstedt-Ulzburg Lions Club and Yuriy Zhypa, born in Ukraine, look after three families and two young women who have found a home with the Möller family and at medical practice at parting a pasture in Henstedt-Ulzburg that has been diverted by lions. The three shake their heads at the German bureaucracy, which – as seen by aides – is particularly evident in the Segeberg County administration. In the region of Bienberg and in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg, on the other hand, cases are being processed much faster, they say.
Area staff are nice and friendly – but hard to reach
“My contacts at the Immigration Office in Bad Segeberg are all kind and friendly,” Zhypa confirms. But the district employees could not help him and the Ukrainians. Constantly changing regulations are indicated, you cannot reach the employee by phone and wait in vain for a written answer. “These are unbearable conditions, and it makes me angry,” says Christina Muller. Each of her subjects has business opportunities, and while Anastasia unexpectedly got her permission, Diana is still waiting. “Even your future employer has already asked the immigration office.”
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Christina Müller, Volker Manke, and Yuri Chiba of Henstedt-Ulsburg stand up for the Ukrainian people and are horrified by the German bureaucracy.
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The four Ukrainians being cared for by lions have been in Henstedt-Ulzburg with their children since mid-March. The Lions Club took care of the roof over the head and prepared this practice. Two young women moved in with the Muller family. Volunteers were immediately found who wanted to help in dealing with the authorities and in everyday life. The essence of the matter in further planning for life is the so-called imaginary testimony. Without it, Ukrainian refugees cannot rent an apartment or do paid work. The certificate grants a residence permit to Ukrainians.
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“The Ukrainian women live here with eleven people—seven of them children—in the former practice. It’s narrowing,” says Volker Manke of The Lions. Everyone has held out so bravely so far, but as the service club has two potential socialites, the fictional testimony URGENTLY REQUIRED This only applies to the District Administration.
Volker Manke is angry with the Segeberg district because, in his opinion, tax money there is unnecessarily wasted. Because women receive financial support – but they prefer to earn money themselves and not be a burden to the state. “The task of the district administrator is to create order in power,” Manke claims.
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Ukrainian refugees are not safe and don’t want to do anything wrong
Olina, a Ukrainian mother, and her roommates are worried. “We want to do everything here in Germany,” she says. But it is complicated and cannot be done without help. They will start to wonder if everything is okay with themselves. They do not dare to say that there may be errors in the authorities or in the system. But their German aides are more straightforward. If the office has too few people, the Bundeswehr, for example, should help, just as at the height of the Corona pandemic, Kristina Muller demands. You feel betrayed by the system.
And businessman Thomas Cole of Seth felt the same way. The head of the medical technology company MiE offered skilled Ukrainian workers to work with him. After “three months and like 1.75 million emails,” permission finally arrived.
District manager Jan Peter Schroeder, who himself suffers from Corona, referred last week to other authorities whose work is causing problems in the Segeberg district.