The government is ready to accept 100,000 non-EU workers into the national labour market in 2023, the same number as this year. By mid-September 2022, the General Inspectorate for Immigration had issued 64,894 employment/posting permits. At that time, the immigration authority also had almost 8,700 employment requests still in processing. Back in 2021, only 38,000 new employment permits were issued for non-EU workers. The number was lower in prior years, with 22,300 in 2020 and 29,800 in 2019.
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