The government will implement two measures to try to attract skilled foreign labor and make life easier for companies that are looking for professionals: reduce the documents required for visa and permit "stages" of students graduate.
The publication in the "Official Gazette" of the Union is scheduled for today. The measures had been studied since the end of last year, as anticipated Leaf in December. The rules adopted, however, fell short of the proposals made by the Secretariat of Strategic Affairs of the Presidency.
The original proposals would allow highly skilled professionals obtain visa even without employment contract and not forced another foreigner to leave the country and get a new visa every time I change my company or job.
The changes approved this week by the National Immigration reduce red tape for visa applications for temporary and permanent work.
Until now, the foreign worker who wants to apply for a visa must deliver in the Brazilian consulate in your region roles as diploma and proof of experience, which will be endorsed.
This phase can take up to 30 days. Then you have to translate the documentation. Only then the process begins to transact in the ministry, which has about 20 days to evaluate it and issue the visa.
The Brazil now requires on average 19 documents to immigrants seeking work visa - in Mexico and Canada, are 8, in the UK, 12, in Australia and in Chile, 13.
Thus, obtaining a work visa takes on average 52 days. In Australia, there are 30 days and, in Mexico, 40.
With the change, companies can obtain a visa before you even meet all the professional bureaucratic steps - he will have 60 days after the granting of work permits to submit documentation.
The new rules also will create an electronic registry of companies that want to recruit foreigners to work in Brazil.
So, you do not need to restate all the documentation for each application. The five papers that today must be completed by the company will be unified.
It also creates a type of temporary visa for students in master's or doctoral degree who want to work for up to 90 days in Brazilian companies.
The idea here is to increase the circulation of professionals with extensive expertise in the country, the minister told Folha Manoel Dias (Labour). To obtain this new type of visa, you only need to submit proof of enrollment in overseas institution and contract work in the country.
This temporary visa can not be extended or converted into permanent after the deadline.
Today, 0.3% of the population is immigrant. According to Census data, the number of foreigners in the country has shrunk in the last decade, from 683,000 in 2000 to 593,000 in 2010. And 43% of them have more than 60 years. Worldwide, the average immigrant population is 3%, in Latin America outside Brazil, is at 1.5%, the U.S. at 15%.
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