BRATISLAVA, September 8, (WEBNOVINY) — Qualified foreigners interested in living in Slovakia will be able to apply for the so-called EU Blue Card, proposes Interior Minister Daniel Lipsic in the draft bill on border controls and residence of foreigners which the Slovak Parliament moved into second reading this Thursday. The Blue Card would allow foreigners to live and work in Slovakia.
The law would consider individuals with university education or with more than five years of practice in a field comparable to university education as qualified migrants. The card should cost 165.50 euros and should be granted for three years. Applicants will need document guaranteed income of at least a 1.5-fold of the average Slovak income in the respective segment of the economy.
According to Minister Lipsic, the law should also make the lives of Slovaks living abroad easier – as well as reuniting families. On the other hand, Lipsic says, it should make the regime of illegal migration, human trafficking and illegal work much stricter. The draft also proposes an employer who illegally employs foreigners to be obliged to pay the costs of their deportation from Slovakia.
The parliament also moved the draft amendment to the law on defense standardization, codification and state quality verification of products and services for defense purposes. Defense Minister Lubomir Galko proposed the draft arguing that MoD needs to comprehensively implement standardized NATO documents in order to provide interoperability of Slovak Armed Forces in NATO framework.
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