People behind Stories of Record
Abu Bakar Saadat
Author: runs the content and the site of Stories of Record day to day.
Background
Abu Bakar Saadat is an RF validation and test automation engineer with more than four years of experience testing LTE and 5G modems on commercial smartphones, in the lab and on live networks. He works as a quality assurance and field test engineer in 5G modem device validation at Qualcomm. Before that he validated Google Pixel phones as a quality assurance engineer at LTTS and worked on LTE/5G modem validation as a project engineer at Qualcomm.
He has a master's degree in Electrical and Information Technology from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.
How stories are made here
Stories are researched, drafted and checked against the sources they cite with AI-assisted tools, under the editorial rules set by Saadat Rafiq and Abu Bakar Saadat. A person does not read every story before it is published. Our editorial standards and How we publish explain the checks; every story keeps its full version history and corrections are public.
Also behind Stories of Record
Saadat RafiqOwner
Umer SaadatCEO
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Stories
- Schengen visa fee: €90 since June 2024, who pays less, and how the next rise is decided
- Germany's blocked account (Sperrkonto) for students: 992 Euro a month in 2027, and what the BAföG bill could change
- German passport and ID card fees: what each costs, and the 2026 rise
- New EU driving licence rules: when the digital licence, driving at 17 and the 4.25-tonne limit apply
- Germany's Chancenkarte (opportunity card): the points, the rules and how to score six
- Working while studying in Germany: the 140-day limit, how a week counts, and the official page that still says 120
- EU Entry/Exit System (EES): every date from the 2016 proposal to full operation in April 2026
- Permanent residence in Germany: from 21 months to five years, every route to a settlement permit
- German citizenship: five years of residence since 27 June 2024, and the three-year route removed on 30 October 2025
- Germany EU Blue Card salary threshold 2026: 50,700 euros, or 45,934.20 euros reduced, with 2024 and 2025
- ETIAS: no confirmed start date yet, a €20 fee, and every official date given so far
- PRA proposes tying 128 regulatory thresholds to UK GDP from July 2031; consultation closes 7 February 2027
- UK ETA: £20 since 8 April 2026, with every date, fee and country change since 2023
- UK passport fees: £102 online, £115.50 by post since 8 April 2026, and every rise since 2023