France approved the Law on Legal Labor Migration for Georgian citizens.

Davit Zalkaliani, Georgian Foreign Minister told journalists before the resumption of Ambassadors’ Conference 2018, that the Georgian government is actively working with partner states with respect to legal employment of Georgian citizens. “The agreement is an important achievement,” Zalkaiani said.

The law will enable young specialists, who received high education in France, to receive temporary residence permits and look for a job and be employed there.

The details and activation date of the agreement are not yet known. Work is being carried out to reach similar agreements with Poland and Israel.

Germany is also considering the rules on legal labor migration that will also extend onto Georgian citizens – Elguja Khokrishvili, Georgia’s Ambassador to Germany told journalists on December 18 during Ambassadors’ Conference 2018.

According to Khokrishvili, the new migration law will regulate current procedures and legal labor rules and will spread to Georgia as being an associated country of the European Union.

The German cabinet will soon decide on a proposal to make it easier for skilled workers from outside the European Union to move to Germany to take a job.

The new proposal mainly addresses relaxing migration policy for professionals outside the EU, since EU citizens enjoy free labor movement in the bloc.

Germany already has a “blue card” system that makes it easier for companies to hire foreign academics and professionals.

The paper proposes that the government will no longer insist that companies give preference to German citizens in filling vacancies before looking for non-EU foreigners.

Graduates and workers with vocational training will have an opportunity to come to Germany to look for a job within a certain period of time if they meet qualification and language requirements, as reported by Reuters.