Hi Everyone!

I'm new to this forum and it seems to contain a plethora of information so bummer I didn't discover it sooner!

If people aren't wanting to read further, my most pressing question is does anyone know a good, can-think-outside-the-box immigration lawyer who has experience with non-EU work permits??? Since these permits are cantonal, someone in Baselland/Stadt would be preferable, altough things obviously don't change 180 from canton to canton.

Anyway, not wanting to duplicate my question or situation, I've done a search of previous posts but only found one from a couple years ago that seemed similar.

My situation is this: I'm a non-EU citizen and currently doing an internship in Baselland on an L visa which expires end of may. Both my employer and myself want to stay on board. The problem is when I got the internship it wasn't as a result of my applying to some advertised position, they basically just created something for me, and now they clearly have an invested interest for me to continue. I need a good lawyer to see if there is a loophole to circumventing this whole EURES job-posting proccess given other points of argumentation I could provide.

Thank you so much in advance for any information you can provide!!

Try here:

http://www.sgierpartner.ch/

They even have a "hotline" for questions.

Regards,

Chris.

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the reply....I'd actually heard about them a few weeks ago and did contact them. Because I managed to get through without the hotline (at 4.50CHF/min) the lady was pretty snotty on the phone. But they do have a first-time 3-hour consultation package at 450CHF that you can sign up for. I'm just hesitant to drop that without getting a good vibe from the lawyer first (continuing that approach from lawyer to lawyer you'll be out a couple K without even getting past square). I mean I know lawyers are all about money and they don't care about you but i got put off that she went straight to talking about her fee system and I even had to argue with her about the 3-h rate for 450chf she said they don't offer, which is posted straight on their website.

vs. another lawyer i talked to on the phone provided me 10min of his time, for him to listen to me without money even coming in question. Although I don't know how experienced this lawyer is so that's why i'm still looking....

I am however still going to keep sgierpartner on the backburner.

Thanks again!
Beate

No real loophole has been as found yet.....

well if there's no loophole for that, then at least there's got to be strategic ways for writing a job advert so you're not sifting through 1000 crap euro resumes and having to justify to the authorities why each one is no good so they can hire moi....