Hi all,
my girlfriend is non EU citizen of Serbia, she has been here in BRX for 5 month now with a visa D as a trainee at EU commission, her permit expires on March 1st.
She has now found a company that would like to sponsor her and do the process for the work permit B Highly Skilld Special Categories.
We have been in the office of strangers and they said to bring the contract before march 1st so they will forward it to the ministry for the approval, and to request the change of status, they have also said that she doesn't need to leave the country by march 1st but she has to pay 200something euros for the change of status, and to the question 'can she work meanwhile starting from march 1st? they said yes, she can work.
But my doubt is, how can she work if the work permit has not been approved yet? and which is the start date that should be written in the contract?
We have asked other administrations whether she can start working and they all said she can't, why the office of strangers says that she can? are they really giving false information to the ppl? such important information? you can potentially face legal issues if you work without permit, are they really that crazy???