Belgium Streamlines Foreign Worker Hiring Process to Address Labor Demand

This is good news for foreign workers who had to wait a long time before receiving a favorable response to their hiring request. In Belgium, as in many European countries, foreign labor is in high demand, but the slowness of the hiring procedures is a hindrance.

It is therefore to alleviate the task of companies that sometimes have to wait more than four months to get a decision, that the "long stay" service of the Office of Foreigners will hire about twenty additional agents. This will accelerate the processing time of files, reports 7sur7.

Moreover, since the beginning of February, several reforms have come to lighten the task of the Office of Foreigners. These include extension files. Foreign workers who have requested an extension of their permit will be able to continue working from the moment they have the agreement of the Region for the work component.

This puts them in a certain legal comfort and facilitates the task of any company that wishes to bring a foreign worker to Belgium.