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Legislation review for incoming mobility in Bosnia & Herzegovina |
Foreign Researchers in B&H
Many obstacles prevent foreign researchers from working in Bosnia: difficulties to obtain residence permits, work permits, getting foreign academic degrees recognised... Almost impossible to bring someone from abroad to work on a project for one year;
Legal Requirements In B&H, each entity/district has its own law related to employment of foreign nationals: FB&H: "Law on Employment of Foreign Nationals"; RS: "Law on Employment of Foreign Nationals and Persons without Citizenship"; Brčko District: "Law on Employment of Foreign Nationals";
All three laws state that: A foreign national can sign a contract with an employer in B&H, only if he/she has a work permit; The work permit shall be issued only if the foreign national has a temporary or permanent resident permit and under the condition that no citizen of B&H with qualifications required by the employer is registered on the list of Employment Agency; Work permits are issued on a determined period of time, usually one year, with possibility of extension; Exceptionally, for foreign nationals with permanent resident permit, the permanent work permit may be issued
Law on foreigners employment FB&H, available only in local language (Zakon o zaposljavanju stranaca FBiH) http://www.fbihvlada.gov.ba/bosanski/zakoni/1999/zakoni/zakon%20o%20zaposljavanju%20stranaca.htm Recognition of Academic Degrees One of the preconditions to get work permit, is recognition of academic degree as an equivalent to the local one; Universities in B&H do not have proper understanding of foreign systems of education, and very often the requests for recognition of foreign academic degrees are rejected; According to the Law, the procedure for recognition of one diploma should not take longer than 60 days; In practice, this procedure takes much longer since there are no penalty provisions if the procedure is not implemented in the determined period of time; This procedure takes approximately one year in most cases, and sometimes even more;
Rules on recognition of foreign diplomas, University of Tuzla, B&H, available only in local language (Pravilnik o nostrifikaciji inozemnih diploma) http://www.untz.ba/akti/Pravilnik_o_nostrifikaciji.pdf |
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