Twenty questions asked before signing

On visa-free routes - Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan - the practical benchmark is 4-7 weeks. A D visa adds 4-6 weeks, and a route with transit through Moldova reaches 10-14 weeks in total.

An incomplete company document package. Details and the registry extract are gathered quickly, while the draft employment contract and salary information wait on a management decision. Until the package exists, the migration partner cannot file for the permit.

The review at the state authority cannot be sped up - that part is not ours. The overall timeline can be shortened by choosing a visa-free route and having the document package ready at the start. Urgency by itself neither lowers the cost nor shortens the process.

Yes, and that is the right way. Recruitment and document collection run in parallel. The overall timeline equals the longer of the two, so the sooner the package is ready, the sooner the first shift.

The total depends on the route and headcount. Visa-free Uzbekistan and a D visa from India mean different timelines and different fees. A group of 15 and a group of 200 are calculated with different models. A per-person price without those inputs would be fiction.

There are three recipients: the state - for the permit, at amounts set by law; the migration partner - under its own contract; WORKIN - for recruitment and support. We receive half of our fee only after the workers start their shifts.

No. The company pays them directly to the recipient. In the proposal and the contract they appear as a separate line so there is no impression of a hidden markup.

Not in the base calculation. That is a separate project model with separate pricing. If there is no housing of your own, WORKIN finds accommodation in the site's city, arranges transport to shifts and meals, and prices it before signing.

With recruitment and mass hiring - your company. The permit is issued in your name and you sign the employment contract. With outsourcing and leasing the personnel stay on the contractor's payroll - that is a different contract with a different subject.

Company details, registry extract, authorized person, draft employment contract and salary information. Plus an address of residence for registration. No documents are needed for the request itself - they come after the contract is signed.

That is a breach by the employer and the company bears the consequences. This is why the start date in the documents cannot precede the permit date - we track this together with the migration partner.

The existence and validity of the permit, the employment contract, whether the actual work matches the declared position, compliance with pay terms and occupational safety records. All of these are the company's documents, not the agency's.

It depends on the route. From Central Asia most speak Russian. Groups from India, Bangladesh and Nepal are more often English-speaking. Every group has a coordinator who speaks the workers' language.

The company as the employer. It must be delivered in a language the workers understand - the coordinator helps with translation. A formal signature under text nobody understood protects neither the worker nor the company.

Workplaces and the section, the briefing, workwear and protective equipment in the right sizes, a mentor for the first shift and an address of residence for registration. The full list is in the readiness checklist.

For the first weeks the coordinator stays in contact with the group: collects questions, helps with daily life and adaptation. Production matters are handled by the company's supervisor.

Before recruitment starts. Until there is a contract, WORKIN does not approach partners in the country and does not show the vacancy to candidates. The draft contract is sent together with the commercial proposal - your lawyer can read it before any payments.

The contract sets out the guarantee period, the grounds and the procedure. If a worker does not show up or fails the trial for reasons named in the contract, WORKIN finds a replacement within the agreed time.

The contract states what happens to payments in that case. We do not control a state authority's decision, so we do not guarantee dates - but the course of action on refusal is agreed in advance.

The practical minimum is a group of ten. We consider smaller groups when the trade is rare or the project is a pilot with a plan to scale.