WORK PERMITS FOR BULGARIAN AND ROMANIAN NATIONALS
This section explains how to apply for a work permit if you want to employ a Bulgarian or Romanian national.
The work permit arrangements for non-European migrants have been replaced by Tier 2 of the points-based system. For more information about employing migrants from outside the European Economic Area, see How do I sponsor a migrant?
We issue work permits to UK-based employers who require them to employ Bulgarian and Romanian workers. A work permit is issued for a specific person to do a specific job for a specific time.
Do you need a work permit?
Work permits are not required for the following types of worker:
- airport-based operational ground staff of an overseas airline
- au pair placements
- domestic workers in a private household
- ministers of religion, missionaries or members of a religious order
- overseas government employees
- postgraduate doctors, dentists and trainee general practitioners
- private servants in a diplomatic household
- representatives of an overseas newspaper; news agency or broadcasting agency
- sole representatives
- teachers or language assistants on an approved exchange scheme
- overseas qualified nurses coming for a period of supervised practice
For any other work, you must obtain a work permit before you can employ a Bulgarian or Romanian worker.
Types of work permit
There are 6 work permit arrangements for Bulgarian and Romanian nationals. Select the appropriate heading below to find out whether and how you can apply for a work permit under that arrangement.
- Business and Commercial
For filling vacancies that might otherwise be filled by resident workers.
- Training and Work Experience Scheme (TWES)
For work-based training leading to a professional or specialist qualification, or a period of work experience.
- Sports and Entertainment
For employing established sportspeople, entertainers, cultural artists and some technical or support people.
- Student Internship
For hiring students, who are studying first or higher degree courses overseas, to undertake internships with UK employers.
- Sectors Based Scheme
For recruiting low-skilled workers to fill vacancies in the food manufacturing sector that cannot be filled by resident workers.
- General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
For employing workers whose employer does not have a commercial presence in the European Union, to work in the UK on a service contract awarded to their employer by a UK-based organisation.
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