Monday, April 13, 2015

Sour cream for rich tech companies – Business World

Rich technology company buys priority at the Migration Board when they need work permits to new programmers. Poorer company may have to wait for over a year. It writes the news site Breakit.

Breakit have examined how the Migration Board manages the work of developers outside the EU, recruited by technology companies. The processes described by them as a news site talking with as complicated and unpredictable. But according to the audit, companies that have high turnover or plenty of venture capital to buy the queue.

From the beginning the idea was that employers recruits over 25 people per year could have a specific certification, where the applications were handled in just a few days. Instead, a consultant niche has emerged, where lawyers and recruitment firms selling status as a certified partner as a service.

technology companies that can afford to turn to consultants and can therefore ahead in the queue. For small companies, it can take over a year to get a work permit for a developer and the process is described as unpredictable.

It costs about SEK 10 000 per application to turn to a certified partner, but it can get expensive if the application needs to be completed.

– In practice it all goes to buy the queue. The disadvantage really small startups that can not afford and one can ask whether it is in principle correct, says Carl-Johan Hamilton, vice president of consulting firm Ants to Breakit.

According to Nina Johansson, process owners at the Swedish Migration Board, the ability to purchase the queue is removed. The problems with long application times in danger, however, that consist writes Breakit.

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