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title: "Employing Foreign Dealers and Specialists"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/media-entertainment-and-sports-law-en/employing-foreign-dealers-and-specialists-en"
field: "Media, Entertainment & Sports Law"
description: "Employing foreign dealers — Articles 3, 13-1, 13-4, 13-6, 13-9: the right in 30 days, a fee up to GEL 500, defects cured in 10 days. Legal.ge."
updated: "2026-10-15"
publisher: "legal.ge"
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# Employing Foreign Dealers and Specialists

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## 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.

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### What is needed for the lawful employment of a foreign dealer?

Lawful presence, the right to labour activity applied for through a local employer, and an appropriate residence status — for example, a D1 category visa or a labour residence permit.

### Who submits the application?

The local employer, after concluding the employment contract, to the ministry of labour, health and social protection.

### What is the exception regime?

Short-term professional activity — within a temporary visit, connected to a specific project and without long-term employment.

### What restrictions exist on professions?

Refusal follows if the profession/qualification does not match labour market demands or is on the restricted list.