Quota for foreign labor force in Kazakhstan equals 63 thousand
09:39, 3 May 2016
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - According to official sources, over 5 years the number of foreign citizens arriving in Kazakhstan has not changed.
Employment of foreign workers in Kazakhstan is regulated by quotas, i.e. the Government sets the maximum number of foreign workers arriving to Kazakhstan. This quota does not exceed 0.7% of the economically active population. Thus, in 2016 the quota is 63 thousand people.
In the previous year the quota was about the same. However, in 2015 it equaled 32 thousand foreign workers.