EU family reunification - financial means question

Visas, Permits, Passports and Naturalization
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Hello everyone,

we are a couple from Germany and I am going to join my husband now who is already working on his PhD in Lausanne. His net Salary is around 3,7k.

I was told that I need to provide a bank statement or pay slips. I just started freelancing last year, so I don't have regular pay slips yet and my new project only started out in July and I won't get paid until August. We have around 30k in savings, on several bank accounts. Do you think that will be sufficient?

Thank you

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If you are both EU citizens, you have the right to live here as long as you can demonstrate that you won't be likely to end up needing social security support.

If it were me, I'd keep working on the new freelancing project, but parallel to that I'd go to Switzerland - to visit my husband - and try to find work just to be sure I could demonstrate an income.

If you find a job of any kind (even a part-time, low-qualified job) that may generate enough income to be regarded as topping up his income to be enough to support you both, and to show that you're working, which is a good sign for not potentially becoming a drain on the Swiss system: that's really what they're looking for, and trying to prevent.

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@Doropfiz,

thank you for your reply that's very helpful. The problem is that I do not speak french yet and so far every job I have seen, even the low-qualified ones require you to be fluent in french. In addition, I have signed up for another project which will commence in August, adding up to 7-9 hours a day.

Therefore I am not so sure about the timing. I really want to live with my husband now, but maybe it's safer to move in August when I will receive my salary.

Or is it possible to just visit my husband in the meantime? I was told that I have to register at the local municipality within 8 days of arrival.

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This is this forum’s best mega-bumper-max thread about finding unqualified and/or part-time or temporary work - even without the language skills. It was started by Kiwi2Swiss when she and her husband were planning to move to Switzerland, and contains conflicting opinions and lots of suggestions.
https://www.englishforum.ch/employme…fications.html

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Do you have a contract that shows this, including details of the income you will have, then? If so, that's good! Then I recommend that you submit that to the immigration authorities, together with he proof of all your employment and frelancing income over the past 12 months. When you send it, write a covering letter asking them whether they need anything else from you.

As an EU citizen (what I've written here assumes you are), you are always allowed to visit Switzerland on holiday.

You might, later, as part of the processing of your permit, be asked to demonstrate that you always returned to Germany after each holiday, and that you were still domiciled in Germany... but that's not very likely. In any case, until you have a permit, you should not spend more than 180 days per calendar (and tax!) year in Switzerland. Maintain your centre of life, including your medical insurance, in Germany, until you're sure of the situation in Switzerland.

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As said earlier, you can stay with your husband for some months as a tourist.

This should hopefully fetch you a reasonable income. So, you can register your own Private Limited Company (SARL) here (you need 20 k capital, you say you already have 30k) and start paying yourself a salary and get a proper residence permit. BTW the initial 20 k you deposited as capital can be eventually paid out as salary to yourself.

HTH

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If you are coming from Germany, presumably you are fluent in German. No need to look at French speaking jobs when you are in close proximity to Fribourg and similar villages that are German speaking in easy commutable distance. Not ideal but will give you a start. Even easier if you live further east from Lausanne allowing you both to commute in opposite directions.

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Fribourg! On the roestigraben.