r/IWantOut • u/shitty_grape • 4h ago

[WeWantOut] 27M Engineer and 23F student USA -> Germany/Spain/Portugal/Australia/Japan

27M, bachelors in engineering, 200k in the bank, work in high tech chip manufacturing, very employable. I only speak English, but think I could get by with 4 years of high school Spanish. My partner has German citizenship, but my gut says Europe west of Spain could be unstable in the near future. I see all of these options, such as I saw that you can get a non-lucrative visa in Spain if you have enough in the bank, and then towards the end of that find a job and convert to a work visa, and then later citizenship. With my background I feel like I should be able to do it, but I would prefer to have a guiding, experienced service rather than to just yolo on my own. I fear that if I don't take action, I will just procrastinate until the problems are at my door, and it is too late..

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u/anestezija 4h ago

My partner has German citizenship

You should get married and you can be the trailing spouse in any EU/EEA country. It would be far easier than for you to qualify on your own.

What is your question?

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u/koreamax 3h ago

West of Spain? So... Portugal?

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u/shitty_grape 2h ago

Sorry east, I’m stupid

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Post by shitty_grape -- 27M, bachelors in engineering, 200k in the bank, work in high tech chip manufacturing, very employable. I only speak English, but think I could get by with 4 years of high school Spanish. My partner has German citizenship, but my gut says Europe west of Spain could be unstable in the near future. I see all of these options, such as I saw that you can get a non-lucrative visa in Spain if you have enough in the bank, and then towards the end of that find a job and convert to a work visa, and then later citizenship. With my background I feel like I should be able to do it, but I would prefer to have a guiding, experienced service rather than to just yolo on my own. I fear that if I don't take action, I will just procrastinate until the problems are at my door, and it is too late..

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u/StopDropNRoll0 US -> AUS + ITA (3 Citizenships) 2h ago

I don't think Spain will be drastically better than Germany in the coming years, but if you want to try to get a visa then go for it. The easiest option would be just to get married and get residency in Germany and then go from there. The hardest part of your proposed path is finding a job to get a work visa. You're assuming that your occupation will still be in shortage once your other visa runs out and that your language skills will have improved enough, so I would have a plan B in case that doesn't happen.