work permits
Job eligibility documents
Work permits are official documents authorizing a foreign national to take employment in a country.
Most nations require non-citizens to obtain work permits before accepting jobs, with requirements varying by visa status, job type, and duration of stay.
She's waiting on her work permit before she can start.
In some contexts, work permits also authorize minors to work legally.
- visaTravel authorization stamp
- legal statusOne's position in law
- economic migrantsThose moving for work
- guest workersTemporary foreign employees
- immigrant workersForeign-born employed persons
employment · issuance · immigration policy · license · bilateral agreements · labor mobility · migrant labor · adjustment of status · foreign nationals · visa sponsorship · authorization · naturalization process · compliance · labor market · labor laws · eligibility · application · foreign
- employment ageminimum age, working age, age limits, age requirement, age restriction
- labor recordsemployment contracts, employment data, labor history
- EU Policytrade negotiations, climate policy, energy policy, migration policy, defense policy
- maritime laborseafarers, seamen, merchant mariners, working hours, working conditions
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
work permitscitizenship
Status as state member
permanent residency · naturalization · green cards · birthright citizenship