The novel, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers, will promote:
- reduction of time and financial expenses of foreigners who receive a certificate for temporary residence without a long-term visa, in case of employment in Ukraine;
- reduction of expenditures of business entities in the field of IT-employing foreigners and stateless persons;
- creation of favorable conditions for attraction of highly skilled personnel (foreigners) to the IT industry.
Changes to the current order of employment of foreigners were initiated by experts of the IT Ukraine Association and the Office of Effective Regulation.
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Representatives of the Ukrainian IT industry are looking forward to the elimination of barriers on the way to the employment of foreigners who need a D-type visa to work in Ukraine. Today, this type of visa can not be obtained on the territory of our country, which greatly complicates the procedure of employment of Ukrainian IT companies by professionals from many other countries of the world.
The Association and the Office of Effective Regulation for consideration of the relevant Ukrainian authorities have submitted three possible scenarios for solving this problem:
- Obvious: still allow non-residents to receive a “D” visa on the territory of Ukraine. Such a scenario is practiced, for example, Estonia, Latvia, Spain;
- Compromise: To issue “D” visas on the territory of Ukraine for citizens of visa-free countries (USA, EU countries, etc.);
- Digital: to issue a “D” visa electronically – so-called e-visas. This approach is already being implemented by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry when issuing visas for tourist or business purposes.
Currently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has rejected each of the proposed scenarios.
However, we hope that the liberalization of the rules of employment of the citizens of the CIS countries – the first bell that all the same changes should be expected and for specialists from other countries.
