Italy will take 82 thousand workers, the is in March

82 thousand 705 workers on long-awaited seasonal and non-seasonal visas have been gazetted in Italy. Online application submission will start from March 27. Which will continue till 31 December.

This time, 44,000 workers are getting a chance to enter Italy on seasonal visas. Citizens of 33 countries including Bangladesh can apply for seasonal visa.

On the other hand, another 38,705 workers can go to Italy on non-seasonal visas, that is, in other categories. Out of this, more than 30,000 quotas have been reserved in the construction, shipbuilding, mechanics and telecommunication sectors outside non-seasonal visas.

The Italian government kept Bangladesh in the black list for the last 8 years. However, Bangladeshi workers are getting the opportunity to go to Italy again for the last two years.

Basically, the validity of agricultural work visa is nine months. According to the rules, every worker will return to his country after working for nine months. But Bangladeshi workers do not follow this rule.

It is known that Bangladeshi workers came to Italy on agricultural work visas and stayed in the country without paying attention to the rules. According to the law, any worker who stays in Italy for more than nine months becomes illegal. But the Bangladeshi workers stayed in the country without going back to the country on a nine-month visa. In addition, the Italian government has canceled the quota of Bangladesh in the last few years due to various reasons including violation of law.

In this regard, Italy Greater Comilla Association, Venice General Secretary ST Shahadat said that the only valid process to come to Italy is sponsorship. We want this legitimate path not to be misused by any unscrupulous circles. Bangladesh was blacklisted by the Italian government for the last 8 years. We have been freed from this blacklist for the last two years. So we can maintain the legal process. On March 27 of this month, the Italian government declared this day as Click Day. This means that we will be able to legally apply to bring workers to Italy today.

He said, if we consider a little statistical aspect, we will see that the Italian government will employ 82 thousand 705 people in different categories from all over the world. Of these, 44,000 are seasonal, that is, what we call agriculture visas; And the remaining 38 thousand 705 people will be brought as non-seasonal sponsors.

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