Where you can move for work if your passport is from Switzerland

Working in Antigua and Barbuda

Work permit:

Required for every non-citizen

Permanent resident:

May work without a work permit

Spouse of a citizen:

May work in any occupation while the marriage subsists

Temporary Residency as a Migrant Worker

Initial grant:

1 year, renewable

Blocking condition:

Employer registered in RENURE

What you sign:

A pre-contrato laboral, not a final contract

A sponsor, a nominated occupation and a salary floor the Regulations no longer print

Core skills income threshold, as the Regulations print it:

$73,150

Core skills income threshold, as the Department applies it:

AUD79,423 for nominations lodged between 1 July 2026 and 30 June 2027

Specialist skills income threshold, as the Regulations print it:

$135,000

Two Acts and Two Authorities: the Labour Office Scores You on Points, the Residence Authority Grants the Card

The title:

Rot-Weiss-Rot - Karte

Very highly qualified: pass mark:

70 points out of 100

Shortage occupation: pass mark:

55 points out of 90

Working in Barbados

Short-term work permit:

valid for a period up to eleven months

Long-term work permit:

valid for a period of up to 3 years

Labour market test:

Long-term only. The Department requires proof that no resident or Barbadian national is capable and willing to fill the post

One Application, Two Governments: a Region Decides the Work and the Federal Minister Decides the Stay

Where the application goes:

To the competent regional authority, not to the federal government

What that application also is:

An application to stay

Who decides the stay:

The federal minister or his delegate

Working in Belize: the Temporary Employment Permit

Permit durations:

One week or less, one crop season, or one year

Professional worker, holder of a university degree:

BZ$3,000.00 a year

Technical worker, fee schedule:

BZ$1,500.00 a year

Residency Through Work

Length of permit:

1, 2 or 3 years, following the length of the activity

Employment, one year:

960 UFV

Employment, two years:

1260 UFV

Residency Through Work

Initial term:

Up to two years

Qualification tier most applicants use:

Higher education plus two years in the profession

Alternative tier without higher education:

Twelve years of schooling plus four years of experience

A Quota Measured Against Your Employer's Payroll, and Two Ways Out of It

Employer ratio:

20 per cent of average payroll, 35 per cent for a small or medium enterprise

Blue Card salary:

At least 1.5 times the national average wage

Blue Card contract length:

At least 6 months

A Labour Market Test You Can Be Exempted From by a Treaty You Did Not Sign

The default test:

A neutral or positive effect on the labour market in Canada

Who assesses it:

The Department of Employment and Social Development

Who escapes it:

Work under an agreement, or work in Canada's own interests

Temporary Residency for Paid Activities

Minimum contract length:

3 months

Initial grant:

Up to 2 years

Extension:

Up to 2 further years, successively

Migrant Visa (M) for Workers

Employer income test:

100 monthly minimum wages, averaged over 4 months

Labour-market justification:

Required in writing

Where the burden falls:

On the employer

Working in Costa Rica: the Employer Applies, and the Labour Ministry Decides First

Salary floor for executives, managers, representatives and technical staff:

The legal minimum wage for that position plus 25%

Who decides whether the work is allowed:

The migration directorate, on the labour ministry's recommendation

Occupations the labour ministry recommends refusing:

260 occupations

The Examination Is of Your Employer: One Croatian on the Books for a Year, a Hundred Thousand Euros Through the Account, and One Croatian for Every Five Foreigners

Employer's Croatian staff requirement:

The same Croatian, EEA or Swiss worker on an indefinite full-time contract for the past year

Employer's turnover test:

100,000 euros through the account in 12 months for a company, 40,000 euros for a sole trader

Ratio of domestic to foreign staff:

At least 20 per cent of the third-country headcount

Working in Cuba as a Foreigner

Who applies:

The Cuban employer, not the foreigner

Maximum temporary residence:

5 years

Renewal of temporary residence:

Every 5 years

One Permit for Residence and Work, a Labour Market Test for the Blue Card, and a Four-Year Ceiling Nobody Enacted

What you get:

One administrative act combining a residence permit and a work permit

Permit duration:

Up to three consecutive years

Maximum stay for employment:

Four years, with five categories exempt

One Card Is the Permit and the Work Authorisation, It Fits One Advertised Vacancy, and the Embassy You Apply at May Be Full for the Year

What the card does:

Residence and the right to work, in one document, for one position

Minimum weekly hours:

15 hours in each basic employment relationship

Minimum pay:

Not below the monthly minimum wage, whatever the extent of the work

Fourteen Numbered Routes in One Subsection, Two of Them Pure Salary Thresholds at 400,000 and 375,000 Kroner

Grounds for a work permit:

Fourteen, numbered in section 9 a(2)

Pay limit:

400,000 kroner a year

Supplementary pay limit:

375,000 kroner a year

Working in Dominica

Work permit provision in the Immigration and Passport Act:

None

Employer's repatriation undertaking:

2 years from landing

Security deposit against becoming a public charge:

EC$1,000 / EC$4,000 / EC$10,000

Working in the Dominican Republic: the RT-3 Labour Residence

Permit length:

1 year, renewable annually

Years of temporary residence before permanence:

5

Renewal window:

30 days before expiry

Working in Ecuador: the Trabajo Visa

Visa length:

2 years, renewable on multiple occasions

Minimum salary set by the immigration rules:

None found

Employer compliance certificate:

Required, covering SRI, IESS and the Superintendencia de Compañías

Working in El Salvador as a Foreigner

Grant:

Up to 2 years, renewable, multiple entry

Ministry of Labour opinion:

Required for employed work

Time the Ministry has to answer:

30 working days

The Salary Floor Is Estonia's Own Average Wage, the Unemployment Fund Has to Agree the Post, and the Only Place the Number Appears Is a Police Table

Salary floor:

The Estonian annual average gross wage last published by Statistics Estonia

What that is in money:

2,092 euros a month for applications taken into proceedings from 5 March 2026 to March 2027

Top specialist:

1.5 times that rate - 3,138 euros a month on the same table

Two Salary Floors, and Neither Number Is in the Aliens Act: 1,134 Euros Borrowed From the Unemployment Act and 1,600 From a Decree

Salary floor for any work-based permit:

1,134 euros a month

Extra floor for the employee permit:

1,600 euros a month gross

Is the 1,134 indexed:

No - only the amounts in subsection 1 of the same section are

Two Codes Decide One Job: the CESEDA Gives the Card, the Code du Travail Gives Permission to Work

Open-ended contract:

Carte de séjour temporaire "salarié", maximum one year

Fixed-term contract or posting:

Carte de séjour temporaire "travailleur temporaire", maximum one year, issued for the length of the contract

Who decides whether you may work:

The work authorisation of the code du travail, which the CESEDA requires before it issues the card

A Work Permit That Starts at Six Months, and an IT Permit That a Sole Trader on the 1% Regime Can Hold

First term of a work residence permit:

6 months to 1 year

First term of the IT residence permit:

3 years

Maximum total length of a temporary permit:

12 years

A Degree Buys Any Qualified Job, and the Blue Card Is Priced Off the Pension Ceiling

Skilled worker with a degree:

A permit for any qualified employment

Blue Card salary:

At least 50% of the annual pension contribution ceiling

Shortage occupations and recent graduates:

45.3% instead

A Quota Fixed Every Autumn by the Cabinet, an Employer Who Has to Call You, and a Contract That Shrank from a Year to Six Months

Who sets how many workers may come:

The Cabinet, by an Act issued in the last quarter of each year

How the quota is divided:

By occupation, on the European ESCO classification

Minimum contract length:

Six months

Working in Grenada

Work permit validity:

12 months

Application fee:

EC$100

Permit fee, named CARICOM states and Cuba:

EC$1,000

Working and Living in Guatemala

Residence term:

One to five years, by the length of the job offer

Foreign employer, minimum monthly pay from abroad:

US$ 2,000.00

Foreign employer, with dependants:

US$ 3,000.00

Working in Guyana: a Work Permit That Is Not in Any Act

Work permit in the Immigration Act:

Does not exist. The phrase appears nowhere in the Act, its Regulations or the Labour Act

What the Act does issue:

A permit to enter and remain, marked "for purposes of employment"

Ceiling under the Act:

Three years from the date of entry

Working in Haiti: Two Permits, a Five Per Cent Cap and a Duty to Train Your Replacement

Maximum period of a work or employment permit:

One year

Ceiling on renewals:

Five consecutive years

Permis de travail fee:

1,000 gourdes

Working in Honduras

What you get:

A special permanence permit, not residence

Maximum length:

5 years

Minimum contract length:

Longer than 3 months

Three Years and Out, and the Permit Dies on the Sixth Day After Your Employer Reports That the Job Ended - With No Decision and No Hearing

Longest stay on a work permit:

3 years from first issue

What happens when the job ends:

The permit is invalid from the 6th day after the employer reports it, with no individual procedure

Undertaking signed at application:

To leave the Union and the other Schengen states within 8 days, naming the destination

No Salary Floor Anywhere: the Test Is the Collective Agreement, and in June 2026 the Work Permit Changed Hands From the Labour Directorate to the Immigration Directorate

Minimum salary:

None stated - the test is equality with locals under the collective agreement covering the job

Who issues the work permit:

Utlendingastofnun, the Directorate of Immigration, since 30 June 2026

First expert permit:

Up to four years, never longer than the work permit

A Permit for the Job, Not for the Person, and a Notice You Must Publish First

Working without a permit:

Prohibited, and prohibited for the employer too

General employment permit, most employments:

€34,000 a year, and €16.77 an hour

General employment permit, care work:

€27,000 a year, and €13.31 an hour

The Employer Applies, the Job Centre Is Asked First, and the Quota Decides Whether Anyone May Apply At All

Who applies:

The employer, to the single immigration desk in the prefecture

Labour market check:

Done before the application, at the employment centre

Accommodation:

Documented as part of the application

Working in Jamaica

Work permit fee:

Not published

Marriage exemption processing fee:

JA$17,250.00

Marriage exemption, expatriate men:

Certificate valid three years

Working in Japan on a Status of Residence

General work permit:

There is none

Usual status for salaried professional work:

Engineer / Specialist in Humanities / International Services

Qualification required:

A related degree, a related Japanese vocational course, or 10 years of practice

One Year At A Time, And The Refusal That Bites Is Addressed To Your Employer Rather Than To You

Permit length for employment:

Up to 1 year

EU Blue Card:

2 years

Micro-enterprise employers:

Excluded

A Job Is Not Enough: Two Laws, a Quota and a Test of Whether You Could Commute

Permit needed from:

The first day of any gainful activity, whatever the length of stay

Contract length that distinguishes the two EEA permits:

Up to one year gives a short-stay permit (L); more than one year or open-ended gives a residence permit (B)

The commuting test:

A permit is granted only where cross-border commuting is not reasonable

A Salary Floor Set by Last Year's Average Wage, and a Quota Capped at 1.4 Per Cent of the Population

Minimum contract:

Full time, at least 6 months

Wage floor:

The pay of a comparable colleague, or the average gross wage for the branch of activity

Annual quota ceiling:

1.4 per cent of the resident population

One Card for the Permit and the Job, and for the First Year It Only Fits One Trade

Permit and work authorisation:

Granted together by the minister, and printed on one card

First card:

At most one year

What you may do in the first year:

One sector and one profession, with any employer

A Licence From the Minister Is an Implied Condition of Every Leave, and Silence on a Single Permit Application Becomes an Appeal by Itself

What makes working unlawful:

An implied condition of the leave or residence permit you already hold

Who issues the licence:

The Minister, for such period and under such conditions as he thinks fit

Deadline for a decision on a single permit:

4 months from the date the application was lodged

Working in Mexico

Up to 180 days of work:

Visitor with permission to carry out remunerated activities

More than 180 days:

Temporary residence, up to 4 years

Who applies:

The employer, at the Institute

One Permit for Residence and Work, Inside an Annual Quota of 28,988 for 2026, and a Rulebook That Now Names Three Different Minimum Wages at Once

Annual quota for 2026:

28,988 permits

How the 2026 quota is split:

21,668 for employment, 2,320 for seasonal employment, and 5,000 held back for reallocation

Length of a work permit:

Up to one year, extendable to at most two years where there is a full-time employment contract

The Permission Belongs to the Employer, and the Labour Market Gets First Refusal

Who the prohibition is on:

The employer, not the worker

Labour market test:

Refused where priority supply is available on the labour market for the post

How long the vacancy must have been with the UWV:

Five weeks before the application

The Work Visa Has No Wage Floor Above the Minimum Wage, and the Residence Visa Has One Printed to the Cent

Pay floor for an Accredited Employer Work Visa:

The New Zealand adult minimum wage, plus a market-rate test the officer applies

SMC wage threshold:

$35.00 an hour from 9 March 2026

Multiples of the SMC wage threshold from 9 March 2026:

1.1 times $38.50, 1.2 times $42.00, 1.5 times $52.50, 2 times $70, 3 times $105.00

Working in Nicaragua

Temporary residence term:

One to three years, renewable

Card classes:

With the right to work, without it, or to study

Decision time:

30 working days

A Skilled Worker Has a Right to the Permit, and Not One Krone of a Salary Floor Is Written Anywhere in the Act or the Regulation

Minimum age:

18

Salary floor stated in the Act or the regulation:

None. Utlendingsloven § 23 first paragraph letter b sets the floor as the applicable collective agreement, or what is normal for the place and occupation where there is none

Status of a qualifying skilled worker:

A right to the permit, not a discretion

Working in Paraguay as a Foreigner

Separate work visa:

None

Work while the application is pending:

Permitted

Employer duty:

Notify the migration directorate and meet labour obligations whatever the worker's migration status

Trabajador Residency for Employees and Contractors

Length of permission:

365 days, renewable

Minimum contract term:

1 year

Contract age limit at filing:

30 calendar days

Rewritten in 2025: the Old Employment Act Is Repealed, the Labour-Market Test Is Now a Blacklist of Occupations, and the Whole File Is Electronic

The Act that governs this:

Ustawa z dnia 20 marca 2025 r. o warunkach dopuszczalności powierzania pracy cudzoziemcom, in force since 1 June 2025

Labour-market test:

Replaced by a district list of occupations in which a permit is refused

Minimum pay:

No less than comparable workers and no less than the statutory minimum wage

Ten General Conditions, Two More for a Job, and a Visa You Must Already Hold

What comes first:

The residence visa, obtained before you arrive

Means of subsistence:

Set by ministerial order, not by the Act

Conviction bar:

A crime punishable in Portugal by more than one year

Since April 2026 an Ordinary Worker Cannot Apply at All: a Licensed Placement Agency Files for Them, and Only for an Occupation on the Shortage List

Who files the application:

The employer for D/AM1, a licensed placement agency for D/AM2

Who gets D/AM1:

Five categories, among them citizens of Moldova, Ukraine and Serbia on a full-time contract

The occupation gate:

It must be on the Lista ocupaţiilor deficitare

Working in Saint Kitts and Nevis

Permit required before working:

Yes, for all but three classes

Where you must be when the application is made:

Outside the Federation

Status that comes with the permit:

Work permit holder's residency

Working in Saint Lucia

Permissions needed:

Two

Work permit exemption for Eastern Caribbean citizens:

Since 18 August 2014

Economic citizens of other Protocol states:

Not exempt

Working in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Statute governing the employment of foreign nationals:

Employment of Foreign Nationals and Commonwealth Citizens Act, Chapter 208

Where a work permit is applied for:

The Prime Minister's Office

Work permit fee:

Not published

The Quota Is Not at the Embassy, It Is Inside the Employer: Forty-Five Per Cent Third-Country Staff and the Labour-Market Test Comes Back

What the permit is built on:

A confirmation of the possibility of filling a vacancy

Labour office deadline:

15 working days

How early the vacancy must be notified:

20 working days before the employer applies

One Permit for Residence and Work, Issued Only After the Employment Service Has Looked at the Unemployment Register and at the Employer's Bank Account

First permit:

The term of the contract, and never more than two years

Renewal:

Up to three years

EU Blue Card:

Two years first, three on renewal

The Status Decides the Job, the Permit Names the Workplace, and the Decree Says What E-7 Means Without Saying What It Is

Maximum period of stay granted at once, E-7:

3 years

Maximum period of stay granted at once, job-seeking D-10:

1 year

Deadline to report a change of workplace, where reporting replaces permission:

15 days from the change or addition

Work Is Applied for by the Employer, and the Labour Market Is Asked First

Who applies:

The employer, at the immigration office of the workplace's province

Labour market test:

Applied, unless an exception reaches you

Part-time contracts:

Total pay must still reach the full-time minimum wage, counted annually

Work Permits: the Employer Applies and the Employer Is Punished, and the Fee Moved to Dollars in 2022

Who must hold the permit:

The employer, who commits the offence if there is none

Fee:

USD 100, or the equivalent in Surinamese dollars

Decision time:

Thirty days, extendable once by thirty days

Ninety Per Cent of the Median Wage, Written Into the Act Itself, With a Shorter List Allowed Seventy-Five

Salary requirement:

90 per cent of the median wage in Sweden when you apply

What the agency says that is:

34,470 kronor a month

Lower figure for listed occupations:

75 per cent of the median wage

Working in The Bahamas: a Labour Certificate, a Newspaper, and a Fee by Occupation

Working without a permit (Immigration Act s. 29):

An offence

Employing someone without one:

A fine of up to ten thousand dollars, five years, or both

Top of the fee scale:

$16,275 at Scale 1, plus a five per cent levy

Working in Trinidad and Tobago

Work without a permit:

One period not exceeding thirty days in every twelve consecutive months

Application fee:

TT$1,200

Fee for the duration of the permit:

TT$900 per month, minimum TT$2,700

The Employer Applies First: No Sponsor, No Route

General salary floor:

£41,700 per year, and at least the going rate for the occupation code - both, not either

The lower floor of £31,300:

Option F, available only for a Health and Care ASHE salary job or to someone granted Skilled Worker permission under the rules in place before 4 April 2024 who has held it continuously since

Points needed:

50 mandatory points: 20 for sponsorship, 20 for skill level, 10 for English

The Visa That Exists Only If Your Country Signed a Treaty

What the category turns on:

A treaty between the United States and your state of nationality

If your state has no treaty:

The category is closed to you, whatever your business

Citizenship acquired by investment:

Three continuous years of domicile in that state as well

Temporary Residency for Workers

Pay floor:

One national minimum wage

Renewal window:

Within the 90 days before expiry

Engagements under 180 days:

A provisional identity sheet may be used instead

Working in Venezuela

Visa validity and stay:

One year, multiple entries, one year of stay

Who applies for the labour authorisation:

The employer in Venezuela

Visa duration:

The same as the labour authorisation