Companies│Non-EU citizens: work permit (less than 90 days)
HIRING NON-EU CITIZENS│LESS THAN 90 DAYS. WORK PERMIT
A work permit is a license that an employee from outside the EU needs to be allowed to work in Belgium for a temporary assignment of up to 90 days.
This work permit is requested by you as an employer and is intended for:
Temporary assignments of less than 90 days
Cross-border workers
Au pairs
In the Flemish region, the employer receives a work permit and the employee a work card. Discover here all the conditions for a work card in the Flemish Region.
Some professions are exempt from applying for a work card.
View here the overview of all exemptions for applying for a work card.
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Fill in the application form and gather all the documents
Fill in the form for the Flemish region and gather all necessary documents in advance:
Copy of the employment contract
Copy of a valid passport / identity card of the employee
Specific documents: different conditions and procedures apply for each category
Apply for the work permit via email
For the Flemish region, the application is submitted by email to the email address aanvraag.arbeidskaart@vlaanderen.be.
Combine the application form and all documents into one PDF file.
Do you have multiple applications?
Then you must send each application separately.
Decision
Is the decision positive? Then you will receive the work permit by mail. This permit clearly states the start and end date of the employment.
The employment can only begin after the issuance of this work permit.
Where is the work permit sent to?
The employee is already in Belgium:
The work permit is delivered to the municipality where the employee officially resides. The employee can collect it there.
The employee still resides abroad:
The work permit is delivered to the municipality where the company is established. The employer collects the permit and sends it to the employee abroad.
Processing time Flemish Region
When you submit an application, the Flemish regional service checks within 10 days whether your file is complete.
You will then receive a notification about this.
Are documents missing?
You will then receive a written request to complete these within 15 days. If you do not, your application will no longer be processed.
Is your file complete and are all documents correctly submitted? Then your application will be officially taken into consideration. From that moment, the 120-day period begins within which a decision must be made. For more complex files, this period may be extended.
Renewal work permit
The renewal of a work permit follows the same procedure as the first time via aanvraag.arbeidskaart@vlaanderen.be. The procedure is the same as well. Once you have completed all the steps again, the work permit will be reissued.