Govt Mulls Green Cards for Ethnic Bulgarians
Politics | December 21, 2007, FridayThe government is planning to propose that foreign citizens of Bulgarian origin should be offered permits, which would allow them to live, look for employment and acquire real estate property in Bulgaria.
The documents, called Green Cards, will offer ethnic Bulgarians visa alleviations and give them advantage in receiving Bulgarian citizenship, but will not grant them an ID card to allow them to travel across the European Union.
Bulgaria is planning to introduce the Green Cards at the beginning of 2009.
A public debate on how to bring back Bulgarians living abroad will be launched next year in a bid to lure them as well as high-skilled foreigners to the country, Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said after the government adopted a report on the state policy towards Bulgarians abroad.
The government is mulling to propose that foreigners who graduate from Bulgarian universities are allowed to stay to live and work in Bulgaria or that international companies, investing in Bulgaria, start to recruit ethnic Bulgarians through the embassies and consulates abroad.
A similar approach has already been applied in Germany, where the community of 15,000 Bulgarian students is the second-largest after the Chinese.
Data shows that more than two million Bulgarians are currently living abroad, excluding the Balkans.
The documents, called Green Cards, will offer ethnic Bulgarians visa alleviations and give them advantage in receiving Bulgarian citizenship, but will not grant them an ID card to allow them to travel across the European Union.
Bulgaria is planning to introduce the Green Cards at the beginning of 2009.
A public debate on how to bring back Bulgarians living abroad will be launched next year in a bid to lure them as well as high-skilled foreigners to the country, Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said after the government adopted a report on the state policy towards Bulgarians abroad.
The government is mulling to propose that foreigners who graduate from Bulgarian universities are allowed to stay to live and work in Bulgaria or that international companies, investing in Bulgaria, start to recruit ethnic Bulgarians through the embassies and consulates abroad.
A similar approach has already been applied in Germany, where the community of 15,000 Bulgarian students is the second-largest after the Chinese.
Data shows that more than two million Bulgarians are currently living abroad, excluding the Balkans.
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