{"id":37024,"date":"2014-09-13T03:23:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T07:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/?p=37024"},"modified":"2020-07-31T03:31:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T07:31:02","slug":"work-permit-in-tonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/blog\/work-permit-in-tonga\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Permit in Tonga"},"content":{"rendered":"
Unemployment is very high in Tonga. It is especially hard for young people to find a job after they finish school. Therefore the government of Tonga is trying to protect its labour market by not allowing non-citizens to enter the Kingdom of Tonga in search of employment.<\/p>\n
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Should you have skills that no Tongan citizen can provide, companies or businesses registered and operating in Tonga may bring you into the country. In order to have your professional skills assessed contact the Ministry of Labour, Commerce & Industries (MLCI), Government of Tonga for further information. MLCI are responsible for the labour markets that are open for non citizens to take up employment whilst in the Kingdom.<\/p>\n
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Please note that you will have to apply for the employment visa at least one month before coming to the Kingdom of Tonga as otherwise penalty fees will be charged. The same is true if you already are working in Tonga and have a working visa and need to renew or transfer it. If you need to renew\/transfer the visa you have to do it whilst your current visa is still valid, otherwise you will have to pay a penalty.<\/p>\n
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STANDARD REQUIREMENTS WHICH MUST BE FULFILLED FOR ALL EMPLOYMENT VISAS<\/strong><\/p>\n ADDITIONAL Requirements for an employment visa. (Employment visas are issued for up to 2 years and are renewable).<\/p>\n Unemployment is very high in Tonga. It is especially hard for young people to find a job after they finish school. Therefore the government of Tonga is trying to protect its labour market by not allowing non-citizens to enter the Kingdom of Tonga in search of employment. Should you have skills that no Tongan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":37030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[28965,20459,28953,4959,20862,28958,2278,28948,13852,28960,11814,7920,27833,28951,28943,28956,28946,2016,7915,2376],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/tango.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37035,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37024\/revisions\/37035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37024"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=37024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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