1. Ede Teinbas IF

2.  Mostly during the Soviet Union era  Citizens of the SU republics  30 % of the population  Nowadays restrictive immigration policy  From Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Sweden, Latvia, Great Britain  Big share is re-migration  Family migration, foreign agreements, employment and education reasons 2

3.  Aliens Act, which regulates arrival to, stay, living and working in Estonia of citizens of third countries;  Granting Aliens International Protection Act, which regulates the bases for granting international protection to aliens and the legal status of aliens;  Obligation to Leave and Prohibition on Entry Act, which provides for the bases and procedure for expulsion of aliens from Estonia and establishing the prohibition on entry;  Citizenship Act, which establishes the procedures for obtaining, restoring and releasing from Estonian citizenship;  Citizen of the European Union Act, which regulates the conditions for the stay and living in Estonia of citizens of the EU and his family members;  Long-term supra-ministry integration strategies 3

4.  travel visa of the Republic of Estonia or another Schengen member state;  temporary or long-term residence permit of Estonia or another Schengen country;  temporary or permanent right of residence of EU citizens and their family members;  the right or obigation to stay in Estonia arising from an international agreement, resolution of the government, law, a court decision or an administrative act;  diplomatic or service card issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 4

5.  Subject to a migration quota (0,1 % of population)  Residence permit for employment is tied to a concrete contract  Simplified conditions for skilled workers  Salary criteria (1.24)  No special projects or programs, but in 2008 the labour migration policy was changed to facilitate the foreign skilled workers to enter Estonia 5

6.  Everyone who has a residence permit or a right of residence  For entry to work: ◦Temprorary working for up to six months  only certain proffessions  to be registered in the Police and Border Guard Board by an employer  salary criterion in some proffessions ◦Temporary residence permit for work  consent of the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund,  public competition  fulfilling the salary criterion 6

7.  Labour force by level of skills and nationality on 2009 7 Nationals Other: EU and third-country nationals plus stateless % of foreigners in labour force Highly skilled202 60028 10014 % Skilled247 90065 50026 % Low skilled44 7007 20016 % Total495 200100 80020 %

8.  Residence permits for employment: ◦2005 - 412 ◦2007 - 733 ◦2009 – 1063  Permits of Unemployment Insurance Fund in 2004- 2009: ◦mainly from Ukraine - 2 781 Russia - 211, India - 82, China - 59 and Nepal - 32 8

9. 9 Profession200420052006200720082009Total Higher official and managers48121311108102 Top specialists12510641346637409 Middle-specialists, technicians 161097221882 Officials and office clerks4110118 Service and sales workers231830414422178 Skilled workers in agriculture and fisheries 0010001 Skilled workers and craftsmen 2634633846276111792 527 Equipment and machinery operators 742344386122 Low skilled workers1120004 Total4876155047647922713 433

10.  Temporary employment in Estonia: ◦2006 - 644 ◦2007 - 658 ◦2008 - 559 ◦2009 - 220  Mostly skilled workers, experts/consultants and artists/scientists  From Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Bulgaria, Belorussia 10

11.  Highly educated, but poor computer and language skills  Occupied in employment and entrepreneurship  Little information about migration and labour market possibilities  Main problem: language  Use traditional channels in labour market affairs, but are interested in new 11

12.  No labour migration projects  Not a priority in political agenda  International cooperation in important, both electronic and traditional tools are used  Problem: statistics/data and comparability  Information in web available (partly also in English and Russian), but online services are poor 12

13.  Immense migration flows in Soviet time influence Estonian migration policy’s restrictiveness: only highly skilled and/or temporary migration is favoured  No migration programs and projects exist and labour migration is not a political priority  Migration to Estonia is scant and highly skilled  Migrants don’t have sufficient access to information and don’t know how to participate in policy-making  Use of electronic channels for information and communication is desired both by migrants and officials 13

14. For more information, please contact: Ede Teinbas Ede.teinbas@meis.ee +372 58 085 407