Bulgaria seeks to facilitate issuance of tourist, work visas
Newswire
Sofia: Bulgaria’s Minister of Tourism Evtim Miloshev and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Maria Angelieva this week discussed plans to facilitate the issuance of tourist and work visas.
During a meeting held between representatives of both ministries, the easing of the work of consular services in third countries was also discussed, in Schengen.News reports.
The Minister of Tourism, Evtim Miloshev, said that people who create tourism in Bulgaria are the investors.
He said that for them “business is today and now”, stressing that that’s why the country needs to understand their problems and find a solution to get rid of them.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Maria Angelieva, the Ministry is working with the Ministry of Finance to facilitate the entry process for those interested in working in Bulgaria.
We are actively working to obtain funding from the Ministry of Finance to provide additional consular officers to serve more citizens in our priority consular offices in Delhi, Istanbul, Edirne, Bursa, Doha, Jakarta, Tashkent, Dubai, Cairo, Riyadh, etc. These are the destinations from which we receive numerous requests for work in our country.
She added that in the past few years, the volume of work in these consular offices has increased significantly due to the increased interest of citizens from these countries to work in Bulgaria and also visit the country for tourism purposes.
Bulgaria’s Minister of Tourism Miloshev and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Angelieva also discussed the temporary suspension of visa issuance from August 9 to August 18.
The suspension comes following the implementation of the new version of the National Visa Information System (NVIS) that will be introduced during that period.
Minister Miloshev said that this temporary suspension is a step forward, and it is part of the full integration into Schengen.
We have made it possible to accept applications for the issuance of temporary passports in urgent cases and to verify powers of attorney and declarations in urgent and humanitarian cases, for example, force majeure, natural disasters, urgent travel related to illness or death of a loved one family member and cases of travel of minor children.
Bulgaria’s Minister of Tourism Evtim Miloshev also discussed easing the visa issuance procedures for Turkish tourists planning to visit Bulgaria.
Miloshev said that even the local government in Bulgaria notes the actions of Greek authorities and the flexible options it has introduced for Turkish tourists.
In April this year, Greece introduced the Express Visa Scheme, permitting Turkish citizens to obtain visas upon their arrival at Greek islands. The scheme so far brought 35,000 Turkish tourists to Greece.
