New rules for issuing permits to labor immigrants
27.01.2025
From 2025, new Rules for issuing permits to labor immigrants will be introduced.
The rules have been supplemented with a number of concepts:
- labor immigrants – immigrants who arrived in the Republic of Kazakhstan as domestic workers for the purpose of performing work (providing services) for employers – individuals in the household on the basis of a permit for a labor immigrant;
- permit for a labor immigrant – a permit for a labor immigrant – a document of the established form issued to a labor immigrant for performing work (providing services) for employers – individuals in the household;
- employer-individual – a person attracting a labor immigrant to perform work (provide services) in the household;
- quota for attracting foreign labor – the maximum permissible number of foreign labor permitted to be attracted by an employer-individual for carrying out labor activities in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In addition, the procedure has been determined provision of public services through the e-government portal, as well as through the migration.enbek.kz platform.
The mechanism for issuing permits to labor immigrants for up to 12 months has been simplified, and the grounds for refusing to issue and extend permits have been defined.
When hiring a labor immigrant who has received a permit, the employer will be required to enter information about the conclusion and termination of an employment contract with the employee into the Unified System of Labor Registration and Documentation (USRTD) or conclude an employment contract with him on the hr.enbek.kz web portal.
Registration of employment contracts between the employer and the labor immigrant will be carried out by the service provider in the AIS “Foreign Labor”.
To receive a public service, an individual – a labor immigrant (hereinafter referred to as the service recipient) submits an application for the issuance/extension of a permit for a labor immigrant in the form according to Appendix 1 to these Rules in person to the non-profit joint-stock company “State Corporation “Government for Citizens” (hereinafter referred to as the State Corporation) or through the “electronic government” web portal or migration.enbek.kz documents in accordance with the List of Basic Requirements for the Provision of the Public Service “Issuance, Extension and Revocation of a Permit for a Labor Immigrant” in accordance with Appendix 2 to these Rules (hereinafter referred to as the Requirements for the Provision of the Public Service).
An employee of the State Corporation shall submit an electronic application in the Integrated Information System “Public Service Centers” (hereinafter referred to as IIS PSC), with attached electronic copies of documents, and send it to the Automated Information System “Foreign Labor Force” (hereinafter referred to as AIS IRS) for the appropriate decision.
When making a decision on issuing or extending a permit for a labor immigrant, local executive bodies shall coordinate this with the territorial internal affairs bodies.
The decision on issuing or extending or refusing to issue or extend a permit shall be made by local executive bodies within two working days, not counting the day of filing the application.