The employment of foreigners from CIS was sufficiently simplyfied

Kyiv, July 18 – The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved the CMU Resolution, which significantly simplifies the procedure of employment in Ukraine for citizens of a number of CIS countries. Changes to the current order of employment of foreigners were initiated by the experts of the Association IT Ukraine and the Office of Effective Regulation.

From now on. to start work in Ukraine, foreigners from CIS countries need to obtain two documents: a permission for the use of labor and a certificate of a temporary residence. Until today, to issue a certificate to foreigners or stateless persons, whose stay in the territory of our country do not require a visa, it was necessary to leave the territory of Ukraine after the date of issue of the permit and return with a border crossing note with a later date than the date of issue permission. Such a procedure not only created additional inexplicable and unjustified complications for those who wish to work in Ukraine, but also led to additional costs and time spent by Ukrainian companies working with foreigners.

Due to the resolution, a permission to use labor, which was granted not later than 30 days from the date of the crossing of Ukrainian border, do not require an additional border crossing procedure for obtaining a temporary residence permit.

This simplification is a small but important step for the formation of a modern and open migration policy of Ukraine, which is extremely important for the further development of the domestic IT-industry. In addition, such changes will help Ukrainian companies that actively co-operate with foreign experts to significantly save money previously spent on employment of citizens of the CIS countries – according to the estimates of the Ministry of Economic Development, only after the first year of the novel, the cost of employment will decrease by about 5.7 million UAH .

The CMU resolution is approved with the need to align it with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the IT-community hopes that its deregulation effect will not be reduced as a result of such revisions.