FOREIGNER’S EMPLOYMENT

Individual (not corporate) shareholders or Chief executive officers of a foreign invested company do not need work permits in order to work in Mongolia. These categories of non-Mongolian employees qualify for Investor’s Card issued by the General Authority for State Registration of Mongolia and the accompanying T-type visa and a long term residence permit. Holders of a T-visa are exempt from paying the work place fee.

Work permits
All   foreign   employees,   apart   from   employees of embassies or multilateral institutions set up through conventions and treaties of Mongolia, must be paid in MNTin accordance with the Law of Mongolia on Conducting Settlement  in National Currency of  July 9, 2009. Foreign workers are free to transfer their salaries overseas.

Obtaining work permits can be time-consuming, generally taking four weeks prior to an entry and additional two weeks after the entry. Before the arrival a single entry work visa must be applied to the Mongolian embassy.

After  entry  the  foreign  worker  must  be  registered  within  seven calendar days at  the Immigration Agency or  face a fine of up  to MNT 1,000,000. While provisional  approval  for  a work permit must be  applied for and obtained before entry, once the foreign worker has entered
Mongolia the actual work permit must be obtained from the Ministry of Labor.

Once  the work  permit  has  been  obtained,  the  single  entry work visa must be extended to a long term multiple entry visa. Additionally, the long term residence permit must be obtained from the Immigration Agency.

For further detailed information please visit the Immigration Agency’s website,
www.immigration.gov.mn Contact 1900-1882/ 7013-3457

Quotas
The Government of Mongolia sets foreign worker quotas, for both locally-owned  and  foreign-owned  companies  operating  in  Mongolia. Depending on the sector, the quota ranges from 5% to 80% of total workforce of a company. The total amount of investment and total number of
employees of  a  company  influence  its quota. The default business  activity of all foreign invested companies is “foreign trade” which has the quota of 5%. This means that a company must maintain 20 Mongolian employees for every 1 foreign employee. Quotas may increase depending on the sector. For instance, companies in mining or exploration business have a quota of 10%, while a company extracting oil or natural gas may maintain a non-Mongolian workforce of up to 80%.

Documents required for issuing the work permit by the Labor Ministry of Mongolia:
•  Recommendation letter from the head of the administrative unit;
•  Request letter for the permit of organization residence;
•  Copy of State Registration certificate of  the employer; Copy of special permits of the employer;
•  Copy of the valid passport with visa of the employee;
•  Bank  receipt  of  payment  of  service  fee /15,000 MNT per person remitted to: Treasury bank -900037003/;
•  Fee of work permit in Mongolia /2,000 MNT remitted to: Treasury bank -900037003/;
•  One recent photo /3x4/A work place fee in the amount  of  384,000  MNT  per  month  of the  work  permit  /remitted  to: Treasury  bank-900037003/
•  Fill the application form