Serbia issued around 79,000 work visas last year

According to Marko Đurić, Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs in the caretaker government, the country issued around 79,000 work visas last year, that shows a significant facilitation of the domestic labour market.
A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that he presented Serbia’s economic results and investment potential at a roundtable in The Hague, where representatives of Dutch companies came together.
Serbia is a small country, but open to economic investments and business cooperation and investing heavily in the IT sector. It could maintain consistent and stable economic growth.
Serbia has free trade agreements with China, Egypt, the UAE, and many other countries, while also having access to the European market, where it conducts the largest volume of trade.
Good political and economic relations with South American and African countries and a strategic dialogue with the United States were also mentioned by the Minister.
Nevertheless, the EU is still Serbia’s most significant foreign trade partner and the primary source of foreign direct investment, with Serbia being the leading trading partner of the EU in the Western Balkans.
Residence and work permits have been digitalized.
The Office for IT and eGovernment announced in a separate statement that they had approved 41,319 applications for a Unified Permit for temporary residence and work of foreign nationals in the first year of operation of the Foreigners’ Portal in Serbia.
Dr Mihailo Jovanović, the Director of the Office for IT and eGovernment, said that they issued 3,004 unified permits in the form of a biometric document in card format in January 2025 alone. He added that the process for foreign nationals wishing to live and work in Serbia has been significantly simplified and accelerated by the establishment of the Foreigners’ Portal.
Foreign nationals or an employer on their behalf can submit an application for a unified permit exclusively online via the Foreigners’ Portal.
If the application is submitted independently by a foreign national, an account on the Electronic Identification Portal (eid.gov.rs) is necessary. An employer or a legal representative also needs a registered account on the eGovernment Portal (euprava.gov.rs) as a legal entity to submit the application.
It is also possible to submit applications for a Type C visa, which allows stays of up to 90 days and is issued for tourism, business, and other travel purposes, permitting single, double, or multiple entries into Serbia, and for a Type D visa, which allows stays from 90 to 180 days and is issued for employment, education, or family reunification purposes, on the Foreigners’ Web Portal.

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