I am a canadian planning on travelling around europe in september but i eventually would like to stay and work in Greece for a few months. How do i go about gettin the proper documents so I can work at a restauraunt or something like this when i get there?
Posted by
Ottawa, Canada
4555 posts
Check with the Greek embassy website in Ottawa. http://www.greekembassy.ca . There doesn't seem to be much there, but contact them to see. It's no surprise, really....tens of thousands of EU young people probably like to pick up jobs there....and they have preference.
Posted by
Camarillo, California
3141 posts
The short answer is, you can't. Work documents are not issued for this sort of employment to those outside the EU. Also, your timing is bad. Almost every tourist restaurant and bar that hire foreign workers will close at the end of October for the winter months and don't reopen until sometime in April. Until then you won't be able to find that sort of job, and in April you will be in competition with all the legal workers from the EU as well as every other illegal 'hopeful'. If you are a skilled bartender maybe then you will find a job, but be advised that you will work 7 days/week and you will probably not be paid enough to live on. This is the exploited reality of foreign illegal workers in Greece.
Another reality is that since 1992 there has been a policy in place in a large group of European countries called the Schengen States that limits your combined stay in them to 90 days. After 90 days you must leave any and all countries in the Schengen group for another 90 days before you can legally return. Greece is a member of this group of countries.
Germany, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden have acceded to the Schengen Agreement and are thus Schengen states.