About 6,500 people from non-EU countries have come to work in Estonia this year, mostly Ukrainians, Moldovans, and Uzbeks with short-term permits.
The largest number of short-term work permits in the first eight months of this year were issued to citizens of Ukraine (1,042 people), followed by Moldova (648), Uzbekistan (421), India (201) and Georgia (125).
Head of the border guard and migration policy department at the Ministry of the Interior Janek Mägi told ERR that Ukrainian and Moldovan citizens have continued to top the table in recent years, thanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russian and Belarusian citizens are no longer granted work permits. Moldova, which borders Ukraine, was previously ranked third in terms of national groups obtaining short-term work permits, while Uzbekistan has moved up two places from fifth in this list.
The majority of Ukrainian and Moldovan citizens holding short-term permits work in construction, followed by agriculture and manufacturing, Mägi said.
Read more: ERR.EE
