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Workers from Sri Lanka for your company

As a recruitment agency for Sri Lanka, we bring foreign staff from Sri Lanka to companies across Romania, from unskilled Sri Lankan workers to skilled trades. If you searched for “Sri Lankan workers”, “workforce from Sri Lanka”, “recruitment agency Sri Lanka” or “foreign staff from Sri Lanka”, you are on the right page: we tell you on the same working day whether we can organise recruitment from Sri Lanka for your positions, roughly what it costs and how long it takes.

From Sri Lanka we recruit mainly for hospitality, the garment industry, manufacturing and agriculture, fields in which many candidates already have experience at home or in the Gulf. CADIMA YOU SEE recruits directly, with its own team and its Dubai office, and where needed, as a fallback, with licensed local partners. Hiring follows the D/AM2 visa procedure: a cerere unică (single application) in WorkinRomania.gov.ro, a visa at the competent diplomatic mission and a permis unic (single permit) issued by IGI (General Inspectorate for Immigration).

Occupations usually available

All are on the List of shortage occupations (Lista ocupațiilor deficitare) (Order 1.073/2026). For other trades, search the full list.

How we run the selection

1. Pre-selection according to the requirements in the ofertă fermă (firm job offer): occupation and COR code, experience, English, availability; for HoReCa we require proven experience in similar establishments.
2. Verification of documents and experience: passport, qualification certificates (including from hotel schools or training centres), references from previous employers in Sri Lanka or the Gulf.
3. Video interview with the employer; we provide an interpreter for Sinhala or Tamil if needed.
4. Filmed practical test for skilled trades: cooks prepare recipes indicated by the employer, garment operators work at the sewing machine from a pattern, welders and bricklayers carry out a technical test.
5. Basic medical check in Sri Lanka, before the contract.
6. For orders of more than 50 workers, the employer's representatives can attend the selection in Asia, with the trip paid for by the agency.
7. Final list approved by the employer, then signing of the placement contract and the individual employment contract.

Interviews and practical testing

For cooks, the practical test means preparing two or three dishes chosen by the employer (including from Romanian or European cuisine, from a recipe sent in advance), filmed, with photographs of the final plates. For garments, we measure the time and quality of a standard operation on the industrial machine. For waiters and receptionists we run a role play in English. The results go to the employer together with our observations; the final decision belongs to the employer.

Languages spoken

The mother tongues are Sinhala and Tamil. English is taught in schools and used in tourism and in export garment factories, so many candidates have a basic to conversational level, higher among those in hospitality. The level differs from person to person and we check it in the interview, not on the basis of the CV. Romanian is learned after arrival, in the mandatory course provided by the employer.

The worker's documents

• Passport valid for at least 3 months beyond the visa period, with 2 blank pages.
• Criminal record certificate (Police Clearance) issued in Sri Lanka, translated into Romanian, English or French and legalised. Sri Lanka is a party to the Hague Convention, so an apostille is used; the accepted form is checked with the consulate on the filing date.
• Travel medical insurance (meeting the requirements of art. 27^2, point (1), letter a) of OUG 194/2002, republished) of at least EUR 30,000 for the visa period.
• Proof of means of subsistence for 90 days at the level of the gross minimum wage, unless the firm job offer states otherwise.
• CV and, where the position requires it, diplomas or certificates translated and apostilled.
• 3x4 photographs and biometric data at the consulate.
• Registration with the Sri Lankan authority for migrant workers (Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment) before departure; our team or, if needed, the licensed local partner handles it, and the requirements in force are checked on the departure date.

The stages, from request to arrival

The employer's responsibilities

• Payment of the salary exclusively into the worker's bank account.
• Individual employment contract in Romanian and English (or another language the worker understands), with the elements of the firm job offer.
• Occupational health and safety (SSM) training in a language the worker understands, and protective equipment; for HoReCa, also the hygiene training required by law.
• Romanian language courses with integration elements, minimum 6 months, at least 6 hours per week.
• Rent of at most 25% of the net salary if you provide accommodation; for seasonal workers, mandatory accommodation.
• Notifying the agency and IGI within 5 working days of unjustified absences of more than 3 consecutive working days or of termination of the contract.
• Access to an internal complaints procedure and keeping documents for at least 5 years after termination of the contract.

Travel arrangements

Flights depart from Colombo, usually with one stopover in the Gulf. The law places the ticket, domestic transport and accommodation on the worker, unless the employer decides otherwise in the firm job offer; clarify this point before the selection. We communicate the arrival date at least 10 days in advance, pick the group up at the airport and transport it to the destination, an obligation the law places on the agency.

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