Kitchen, cleaning and warehouse jobs in the UK are settled on one phone call. Ten questions, what each really means, the two you should ask back — and the one sentence that saves the call.
Small jobs in Germany are settled on one phone call, and it turns on the same ten questions. Each one in German, with the meaning, a reply, how to say it — and the one sentence that saves the call.
The UK has no amnesty and no regularisation scheme. The Private Life route asks adults for more than twenty years. This page says plainly what is actually there — and why paying an unregulated adviser is money you will not get back.
Germany has no scheme where living here long enough turns into papers. What the law provides is s.25b: six years tolerated (four with a child), A2 German, and a livelihood mainly from work — and a false identity closes that door for good.
The UK minimum wage depends on your age — £12.71 an hour for those 21 and over from April 2026. This page covers what a payslip must show, and how to get free Acas advice in over 100 languages.