The Conceptual Basis of Labour Immigration
Hiring foreign dealers and technical specialists for a live-dealer studio or a casino falls into the regime of the Law on Labour Migration, and Article 3 creates its conceptual basis. A labour immigrant is a foreigner without a permanent residence permit in Georgia who enters Georgia for the purpose of employment arrangement with a local employer and remunerated labour activity. A local employer, in turn, is a legal entity registered in Georgia, an individual entrepreneur registered in Georgia, a partnership, a representative office of a foreign organisation registered in Georgia, or a person lawfully residing in Georgia who uses the foreigner’s labour in Georgia.
In the studio context this definition clearly means: a Georgian company that hires a foreign dealer is a local employer, and the entire procedure runs through it. Respecting the conceptual chain also matters because the law distinguishes arrangement, relationship and activity from one another, and a mistake in qualification nullifies the whole procedure.