Foreign IT specialists to have facilitated access to Moldovan labour market

18:19 | 23.06.2017 Category: Social

Chisinau, 23 June /MOLDPRES/ – Foreign IT specialists will have easier access to labour market. A draft law amending the law on the foreigners’ regime in Moldova and the law on labour migration was adopted by the vote of 56 members of the Parliament today.

The initiative belongs to Speaker Adrian Candu and comes to complement the efforts of the authorities to increase the competitiveness of IT industry in Moldova.

According to promoter, the new changes will help to remove barriers for qualified IT specialists and managers, to create a favorable environment for IT industry development, and boost technology transfer and investment in Moldova. Also, facilitating the legal framework for finding these categories of foreigners on Moldovan territory will allow multinational and national groups, including startups, to optimally capitalize and develop human resources in Moldova.

The law stipulates that IT specialists can activate for a period of up to 90 days, calculated cumulatively over a six-month period, based on the Moldovan beneficiary legal entity’s request and the opinion issued by the competent authority in the field of information technology, copies of the foreigner’s national passport, the service contract, the study and/or qualification documents and the short-stay visa, by situation. Also, the beneficiary legal entity of Moldova, within 3 working days from the date of the foreigner’s entry in Moldova, shall submit to the competent authority for foreigners the declaration of the purpose and duration of the specialist’s stay in Moldova, annexing the necessary documents.

The right of temporary residence of the IT specialist will be granted for a period of four years at the foreigner’s request, based on a request from the legal person and the opinion issued by the competent authority in the field of information technology, as well as the necessary documents.

Currently, over 400 active IT companies are registered in Moldova employing about 20,000 persons.

(Reporter A. Zara, editor A. Raileanu)

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