Foreign investors save 21 million lei after facilitation of getting work, stay permits in Moldova

Chisinau, 4 October /MOLDPRES/ - Foreign investors annually save up to 21 million lei as a result of the reform of facilitation of getting the permits of work and stay in Moldova. The data is contained in a study made by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank Group, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

The reform promoted by the cabinet in this sector provides for simplified getting of the permit of work and stay for foreign highly qualified workers, detached employees, decision-makers, employees of companies of the list of investors of national importance and for the workers whose profession is found in the list of priority occupations on the labour market of Moldova.   

According to the IFC study, due to the reform, the number of acts which are to be presented when submitting files to the state authority is to be cut and the time for processing of applications for providing work and stay permits is to be shortened.  

The applications can be now submitted by the employer, till the arrival of the foreign worker. Ahead of the reform, the foreign worker had to come to Moldova, submit the applications and remain here to personally present the additional documents, if the latter were demanded. Employment was banned on this period.

Now, the migrant worker who acts in Moldova and wants to change his/her job based on a contract, can prolong his/her right of temporary stay without being obliged to leave the country and repeatedly enter it with the presentation of a new package of acts.  

The reform of the facilitation of the issuance of work and stay permits for foreign investors was initiated at a request by Prime Minister Pavel Filip. Its goal is to remove barriers to legalizing the stay and employment of foreign citizens – a constraint to investments in Moldova. This reform of the government was promoted with the support of the Economic Council under the Prime Minister and the International Finance Corporation and World Bank Group.