Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social (Costa Rica)
Reports, establishes nothingCosta Rica's labour ministry. Each year it issues the opinion listing the occupations in which the migration directorate should authorise no foreign worker at all, and states that only occupations absent from the list may be referred for assessment.
Describes what others have done. Useful as a signal that something has moved, never as proof that it has.
www.mtss.go.crCannot be cited for
It must not be cited for the list currently in force: the opinion the directorate publishes names its own period of application as 1 December 2023 to 30 November 2024 and has expired, and no successor was found. Nor for the decision, which is the directorate's - under article 80 of Ley 8764 the ministry's opinion is formally recommendatory.
Re-check every
90 days
Publication rhythm
Annual, with each opinion naming the period it governs.
Re-check triggers
1 December each year, when a successor opinion is due · the migration directorate linking a different opinion