Bulgaria employment agency for foreigners: the sending side

Hiring a third-country national in Bulgaria splits in two. One half happens in Bulgaria, in front of the Employment Agency and the Migration Directorate, and the law keeps it with you. The other half happens where the worker lives, months before anyone files a form. A Bulgaria employment agency for foreigners can take the second half off your desk, and this page is about what that actually covers.

We work from the sending end. Our licence is Uzbek, and in 2025 Uzbekistan accounted for 3,716 of the 12,596 first residence permits Bulgaria issued for employment.

Figures checked on 2 September 2026 in the Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, updated on 12 August 2026.

Two jobs, not one

The Bulgarian half is written down. One document, the single residence and work permit, applied for by the employer. Three conditions under article 7 of the Labour Migration and Labour Mobility Act, checked on every separate application. State fees of 176.69 euro per worker. A statutory ceiling of two months on the whole procedure, extendable by two more where the case is factually or legally complex.

The Uzbek half is written down nowhere, and it decides whether the Bulgarian half ever starts. Finding people who hold the trade and not only the certificate. Getting the criminal record and the medical done before the visa appointment rather than after it. Having diplomas and employment history legalised and translated. Interviewing enough people that the group survives someone dropping out. Booking an appointment slot that exists.

Failures on this side are quiet. Nothing is refused; things stall. A missing legalisation, a diploma that does not match the job description in the application, one man out of twelve who cannot travel.

What a Bulgaria employment agency for foreigners cannot take off you

Four things stay with the employer whoever supplies the people.

Third-country nationals may not exceed 20 per cent of the average payroll over the previous twelve months, or 35 per cent for small and medium enterprises. Pay and working conditions have to be no worse than for Bulgarian nationals in the same post. The position has to carry a documented requirement for specialised knowledge, skills or experience. And the application is filed by you, not by us.

Then the money that does not move: 176.69 euro of state fees per worker, and an employer social insurance load of 19.62 per cent in construction. Neither figure depends on the worker's nationality.

An agency offering to make any of this go away is describing something other than Bulgarian law.

Buying from the sending side

A Bulgaria employment agency for foreigners can sit at either end of this route. We sit at the end the workers start from, and that is checkable in one place.

Talents Center is a trade name. The state register of private employment agencies of Uzbekistan lists the company as LLC "Specialist Group Private Employment Agency", licence number 0078, issued on 7 April 2021. A search for "Talents Center" in the register returns nothing — search for the company name instead. Our office is in Andijan.

That is the entire check and it takes a minute. Ask the same of every other supplier you write to, and ask for both names before you sign anything.

What we supply, and what we will not

These are the directions we supply, taken from the vacancies our employers actually open rather than from a catalogue. Transport and logistics: C+E haulage, buses on category D, forwarders, and operators of forklifts and special vehicles. Kitchens and hotels: cooks and sous chefs, bakers and pastry cooks, bartenders, room attendants. Construction and finishing. Manufacturing and engineering, including MIG/MAG welders. Warehouse. The full list of the trades we already fill in Bulgaria sits on its own page.

One job takes a group of ten to twenty people. The group we put in front of you carries 10 to 15 per cent more people than the headcount you gave us, and that margin is the reason a replacement does not send the search back to the start.

We will not put forward anyone we have not interviewed ourselves, and we will not move a group before there is a signed employer contract behind it.

Send us the trade, the headcount and the town. Within 48 hours in business hours you will have the number of people we can prepare for that job and the list of Bulgarian steps that stay on your side.