Legal work and migration Everything you need to know about working legally in EU

For more than 10 years, more than 600.000 Moldovans left the country to look for a better future abroad, leaving their families in Moldova. Many of them left the country illegally and continue to be such till present in the European Union countries. This process led to serious problems: breaking the family apart, impossibility to see your family, mistrust of the employer from EU, etc

The EU funded project “Strengthening Moldova’s capacity to manage labour and return migration” aims to facilitate legal mobility between European Union and Moldova. This objective divides into 2 sub-objectives:

1. Offering all the necessary information and encourage persons who plan migrating to use legal channels of migration
2. Supporting Moldovans returned home voluntary or forced by facilitating their integration on labour market of Moldova and direct their knowledge and experience gathered abroad towards the benefit of their own or of the country.

To avoid and diminish the number of cases of illegal migration and thus to facilitate the control of the flux of migration the EU project launches an information campaign on living and working legally in EU encouraging people to use legal channels when migrating.

Having a legal way of working and living will allow you to benefit from the following advantages in the destination country of the EU:

- You can visit your family anytime you want
- You may benefit from social insurances and protection
- Work legally
- Assurance of a better future
- Possibilities of finding more job offers
- Trust of employers from the EU space
- Salaries and working conditions according to standards established by the EU country for the occupied position
- Possibility to take credits

Working/living permit

To live and work legally in the European Union, a person from a third-country must have a working/living permit of the country of destination.

The working/living permit is a document issued by local public authorities of the destination country, which allows the person to work and live legally in the European Union space.

To obtain a working/living permit it is necessary to have the following documents:

 International passport available for more than 6 months
 Visa issued by the destination country that coincides with the goal of your visit
 Invitation and/or labour contract
 Residence assured in the destination country for the period of your stay
 Medical insurance

Nevertheless, the local public authorities could ask for additional documents if necessary.

Detailed information on living and working legally in European Union

Detailed information on legal ways of migrating to EU, on receiving Schengen visas, necessary documents to migrate legally to EU, etc., may be found, by calling to the following Call Centers:

Call Centre of the National Employment Agency (offers information about legal ways of migration):

Tel: 0 8000 1000 din Moldova
sau +373 22 838 414 din străinătate,
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Call Centre of the Foreign Ministry of Affairs and European Integration (offers information about receiving visas for abroad)

Tel: 0 8009 0990 din Moldova
sau + 373 22 690 990 din străinătate

Call Centre of the Common Application Visa Centre of the Hungarian Embassy to Chisinau (offers information about Schengen visa and issue of working/living permits in Hungary)

Tel: + 373 22 200078, + 373 22 228668,
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Additionally, you may address directly to the national and international diplomatic missions:

Diplomatic missions of the EU countries to the Republic of Moldova

Diplomatic missions of the Republic of Moldova to EU

Organisations of the Moldovan Diaspora are at your disposal whenever you may need consultation, information or support in the country of destination.

Moldovan Diaspora in EU countries

It is important that you are informed about the procedures and regulations of the EU country before leaving. The EU funded project “Strengthening Moldova’s capacity to manage labor and return migration” strongly advises you to read carefully the country guides that contain general information about the country, procedures and regulations on how to require/receive a working/living permit, entry visas, labour contract, etc.

EU country guides