Non-EU workers, more places than applications. Boom in applications for family assistance
For domestic helpers and carers, requests from employers were more than double the available quotas, despite the 10,000 additional places for carers of over 80s and disabled people
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The tightening of controls, introduced by law decree 145/2024 to combat fraud on the entry of non-European workers, has greatly reduced the number of applications submitted by employers. The applications for 2025, pre-loaded on the portal of the Ministry of the Interior from 1 to 30 November, were even lower than the number of places available: 180,012 applications against the 191,450 entries established for next year.
The novelty consists in the fact that on the first day of the variousclick days for 2025 (four are planned: 5, 7 and 12 February and 1 October) only those who have already pre-loaded their applications may submit them. Those, on the other hand, who have not done so will only be able to submit their applications from the day after the opening of each click day - for example, from 6 February for non-seasonal employees - and until 31 December 2025. These applications will end up in the queue and their probability of being accepted will be lower.
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The total number of applications for the 2025 is therefore bound to rise, but it is unlikely to reach the records of the two previous rounds of click days: for the 136,000 places in 2023, 609,000 applications had been submitted, while for the 151,000 admissions in 2024, there had been more than 702,000. Numbers that had rung as alarm bells of malfeasance and malpractice.
In order to avoid scams, decree 145 on immigration (converted into law last week) has brought forward the pre-loading phase of applications on the Ministry of the Interior's telematic platform, so as to allow a preventive check on the truthfulness of the applications and the appropriateness of the applications, implemented through the cross-referencing of databases. Applications following the click days will be subject to the same checks.
Checks during the precompilation phase (use of digital identity and Pec) have, however, made the application procedure more complicated, even for the employer associations. Some have therefore asked to allow the precompiling of new applications and to extend the time window in which it will be possible to complete applications already submitted (from 13 to 19 January).
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