The adoption of the new Immigration Code in 2022 was announced by the Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Notis Mitarakis, during a discussion on “Social Policies and Demographic Sustainability”, organized within the conference “Demographic – The Great Challenge”, in Athens .
As Mr. Mitarakis stated, “we are preparing the new Immigration Code, in 2022 it will be submitted and voted – hopefully – in Parliament. The goal is to attract people with skills needed by the Greek economy.”
The Minister of Immigration also referred to the introduction of a visa for digital nomads in 2021, saying that “we are one of the countries that give a national visa for twelve months, which can then be turned into a work permit for qualified executives who want to live in Greece “to work digitally in their country. We have given tax incentives to bring people to Greece.” He added, “Our country has made many organized efforts to attract people of high educational and financial level. I remind you that in 2013 we instituted the golden visa, thanks to which 3 billion euros have been invested in the Greek economy in the last nine years.”
In addition, he stressed that “our priority is to attract labor and that is why we legislated the five-year seasonal leave, with Greece becoming the first country in the European Union to try such a multi-year, but also seasonal, immigration policy.” This leave concerns a workforce, “who will not come with his family, will not stay permanently in our country, will not be naturalized, but as the Gulf countries did with great success, he will come to work for nine months – “A period that covers us in the agricultural sector, tourism and other industries – and will return to his country for three months. This is the main thing we are looking at at the moment in bilateral agreements, such as the agreement with Bangladesh.”
Mr. Mitarakis clarified that “the attitude of the government towards illegal immigration is the same” and that “this is a clear political choice of this government and that is why we are guarding the borders effectively”. “Beyond that”, he concluded, “we must open legal passages, because we have objective needs. We see this, this year, in statements of productive bodies of the agricultural sector, tourism, construction, and not only in Greece, who are looking for labor hands”.
Source: Capital
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