Vietnam is a significant source of manpower for the Czech Republic. Almost 10,800 Vietnamese men and women came to work in the Czech Republic in the first six months of this year. Winter said the issuance of work visas in Hanoi was dogged with complications. "Vietnamese recruitment agencies and Czech businesses are saying applicants for work visas for the Czech Republic are encountering a number of problems," Winter said. "A very small number of workers have received the visa in the past months," Winter said, adding that the Vietnamese Labour Ministry has decided to suspend the recruitment. Winter said the procrastination had also caused other negative things in Vietnam. The information that ensuring Police initiate charges against Czech-Afghan chamber head ...
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Olympic torch relay in Vietnam ... the visas was a complex affair has played into the hands of agents who collect around 2700 dollars to "ensure the documents," he added. The legal fee is roughly 240 dollars. The Czech-Vietnamese Society complained about this at the beginning of the year.
It said the local agents demanded 2200 dollars from the applicants. The Czech Republic and Vietnam will probably create an expert group at the level of deputy ministers to settle the problems with the issuance of work visas to the Czech Republic, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek told journalists after meeting his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung in March. Topolanek said the group could deal with petty crime connected with the issuance of the visas such as forging documents. Recently, the Czech Republic installed phone orders for the issuance of visas, thanks to which Vietnamese can ask directly for the documents. Winter said there was a single phone line for this purpose which was only used at office hours. It is impossible to arrange for collective granting of visas, he added. At the end of April, 33,444 Vietnamese had permits for permanent stay in the Czech Republic and another 22,182 had long or short-term permits. At the end of June, 16,188 of them had work permits in the Czech Republic. The employment of Vietnamese in the Czech Republic goes back to the Communist era when a large number of Vietnamese were trained at Czech educational facilities.
(Ceske Noviny)
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