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In the crisis for workers, the Greek parliament is expected to approve 3-year residence permits for illegal immigrants

2023-12-18 18:13:11Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
In the crisis for workers, the Greek parliament is expected to approve 3-year
Illegal immigrants in Greek camps

Greek lawmakers prepared to vote Monday night on a bill allowing migrants to obtain a three-year residence and work permit, a step to address labor shortages in key sectors of an economy reeling from a debt crisis.

Greece has been a gateway to the European Union for thousands of migrants and asylum seekers from the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe. Many of them have ended up working illegally, in sectors such as construction, agriculture and tourism.

After exiting three international bailouts in 2018, Greece, like its European counterparts, was also hit by an exodus of workers from the workforce during the COVID pandemic, many of whom have never returned.

The conservative government, which was re-elected in June and has tightened Greece's policy to curb migration by hiring more border guards and increasing patrols, estimates that around 300,000 undocumented migrants now live in the country.

"We don't want invisible people," State Minister Akis Skertsos told ANT1 television on Monday, adding that the permit will help attract workers for jobs Greeks don't want to do but also to maintain public order.

Under the Conservative government's bill, immigrants and asylum seekers who have lived in the country for at least three years, have no criminal record and have been offered a job can apply for a new residence permit by December 2024.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis's party controls 158 seats in the 300-seat parliament and therefore the bill, which also creates the post of national coordinator for migrant returns, is expected to be approved on Monday evening, Reuters reports.

About 30,000 people, many of them from Albania, Georgia, Pakistan and the Philippines, are likely to apply for the new type of permit, migration ministry officials have said.


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