What we do
Immigration & Mobility
From the right to work and visas to residence permits, postings and special cases, we coordinate immigration and mobility procedures for employers, workers and businesses.
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Which document do I need?
Two questions, and the service that fits your case from the nine below — each one a document or a procedure with a name of its own.
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How we work
Nine services, grouped by whose case it is
Each one is a document or a procedure with a name of its own. What it is, who it is for and what we do on it — and, where a case has one, the checklist it runs through.
The placement file
Employment immigration: the placement file
The file a placement runs through — the application, the visa, the permit — and the status that years of them can lead to.
Long-term work visa
The long-stay visa for employment — D/AM1 or D/AM2 — issued by the Romanian consulate in the worker's home country, which lets the worker travel once the application is approved.
- Who it is for
- A worker whose application has been approved and who now needs the visa that lets them travel.
- What we do on it
- We prepare the consular file, brief the worker on what the appointment requires — including the travel medical insurance the application must carry — and stay reachable while it runs.
Work residence permit
The document that turns a long-stay employment visa into the right to live in Romania for the length of the job.
- Who it is for
- A worker who has arrived on a long-stay employment visa and has to convert that into the right to live here.
- What we do on it
- We prepare and lodge the residence application inside the 90-day window the visa allows, book the biometrics appointment and follow the file to the decision.
Permanent residence permit
The permit that replaces a renewable residence with a permanent status, for a non-EU national who has lived in Romania long enough to qualify.
- Who it is for
- A non-EU national who has lived here long enough to move from renewable to permanent status.
- What we do on it
- We check the qualifying period and the conditions against the file, assemble the evidence and lodge the application.
Beyond a placement
Business & European mobility
The cases that are not a placement: a visit, a posting in either direction, or an EU citizen who stays.
Business visa
The visa for entering Romania to do business — meetings, negotiations, a site visit — rather than to take up employment.
- Who it is for
- A director, buyer or technician coming for meetings, negotiations or a site visit, not to take a job.
- What we do on it
- We establish which visa the trip actually needs, assemble the invitation and supporting documents, and prepare the file for the consulate.
Employee detachment
The paperwork of posting a worker across a border on assignment: into Romania from an employer abroad, or out of Romania to a job in another country.
- Who it is for
- A company posting its own staff into Romania on assignment, or posting Romanian staff to a job abroad.
- What we do on it
- We work out which regime the posting falls under, prepare the notifications the authorities require and keep the file compliant for the length of the assignment.
- What the case covers
- Into Romania from an EU state: the A1 portable document, the S1 or European health card, and the fiscal residence declaration
- Into Romania from outside the EU: the single application on the state platform, the long-stay visa and the residence permit
- Out of Romania to an EU state: the A1 for the posted worker, and the notifications the host state requires
- Out of Romania to a non-EU state: the invitation, the business visa and the travel medical insurance
EU citizen registration certificate
The certificate an EU citizen needs to live and work in Romania beyond the visa-free period, and the registrations that come with it.
- Who it is for
- An EU citizen staying in Romania beyond the visa-free period, to work, study or join family.
- What we do on it
- We prepare the registration file and lodge it, so the stay is documented from the date it needs to be.
- What the case covers
- Registration of residence and the Romanian personal numeric code (CNP)
- Recognition of diplomas where the profession is one Romanian law regulates
- Fiscal registration, and the fiscal residence declaration where it applies
- Residence registration for family members who come too
Beyond the form
Special cases & authority liaison
What falls outside the ordinary route, and the liaison with the authorities every case needs.
Emergency and special cases
Not a document but a situation: a refusal, a missed deadline, a file the standard route does not fit — and, where it helps, a memorandum to the authorities.
- Who it is for
- Anyone whose case has gone outside the ordinary route — a refusal, a deadline missed, a situation the standard file does not fit.
- What we do on it
- We read the file, establish what the authorities actually need, and where a case calls for it, prepare a memorandum setting out the position.
Formalities and liaison with the authorities
The paperwork, appointments and correspondence with the immigration and labour authorities that every one of the cases above generates.
- Who it is for
- Any of the eight above, from the first document to the final decision.
- What we do on it
- We handle the paperwork, the appointments and the communication with the immigration and labour authorities, so the employer and the worker are not learning a procedure while running one.
Case flow
What actually has to happen
Six steps in a fixed order — the visa cannot be applied for before the state has approved the job. We carry all six, and publish a figure only where a published instrument fixes one.
Profile
We build the candidate's profile against your role and screen the CV before you see it.
Interview & testing
Online interview, and a work trial in the candidate's home country.
Documentation
We prepare the employment and immigration file with the candidate, then lodge the single application on the state platform and track it. Romania ended the separate work permit on 8 August 2026.
OUG 32/2026 closed the aviz de angajare and moved the whole file onto WorkinRomania.gov.ro, run by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The same ordinance made the job itself a condition: the procedure can only be started if the occupation appears on the List of Shortage Occupations. The Ministry of Labour approved the list in force on 6 August 2026 — 289 occupations, each named by its COR code — and revises it twice a year. We publish no duration for this step. The decision belongs to the state, and it and the consulate appointment are the two things that set the pace of a placement — neither is ours to hurry.
Right to work & visa
Long-stay visa for employment, D/AM1 or D/AM2. The single application is lodged on the state platform, and the visa is issued by the Romanian consulate in the candidate's country.
The state fee for a long-stay visa has been 300 EUR since 27 April 2026. Every application now has to carry travel medical insurance covering at least 30,000 EUR for the whole validity of the visa — emergency treatment, hospitalisation and repatriation.
Travel & arrival
Once the visa is issued, we coordinate the journey, the arrival and the first days on site.
The long-stay visa is issued for 90 days. That is the window the worker has to travel and apply for residence, not an estimate of how long the consulate takes.
Residence & post-deployment
After arrival we arrange the residence permit, then stay the contact for the length of the placement.
The application has to be made before the 90-day visa runs out. Once the right of residence is granted, the worker has 10 days to book the appointment where the fingerprints and the photograph are taken. The authorities have 30 days to decide the application, extendable by 15 days where further checks are needed and, in exceptional and justified cases, by up to 30 days more.
No step in this chain is paid for by the worker. OUG 32/2026 forbids a placement agency from taking any commission, tariff or fee from the people it places, and holds the employer answerable for the same rule.Source: OUG 32/2026 art. 11, 23
Questions about a case
From the first document to the authorities' final decision, one contact carries the case — not a handoff between departments.
How long does a case take?
It depends on the authority and, where a visa is needed, on the consulate. Neither publishes a date anyone can promise. We give you a realistic timeline once the case is assessed, and tell you as each stage moves.
How do I know the case is eligible?
Eligibility is checked before anything is filed: the case type, the role, the worker's status and the rules that apply to them. If a case does not qualify, we tell you before the filing, not after a refusal.
What does a case cost?
Professional fees and government charges vary by case. Both are quoted before work begins, and nothing is charged that was not quoted. When the case is part of a placement, the employer pays for it — never the worker.
What happens after the decision?
The case does not close at the decision. Residence, registration, renewals and any change of employer or status stay with the same contact who filed it.