At a glance
What you are applying for
This guide is about national work visas, not the Schengen visa. A Schengen visa — the one used for visits and business trips — does not allow you to work anywhere in Europe. To work, you need a national (type D) visa from the one country where the job is, issued under that country's own rules, usually after its authorities have approved a work authorisation.
So it turns on the country and the category: a recognised degree and a job offer for Germany's EU Blue Card or skilled worker visa, or an employer's work authorisation in Italy or Romania. What does not work is a “Europe work permit” sold by an agent in Pakistan. Nobody legitimate sells a job offer or a visa, and a permit for one country does not let you work in another.
Most refusals come down to one of four
- 01A recognised degree
- 02The right salary
- 03Genuine documents
- 04Papers in the accepted form
EUEurope · Work visaFACT SHEET
- Not Schengen
- A Schengen visa does not allow work; you need the national visa of the country where the job is
- Who decides
- Each country, under its own rules — there is no single EU work visa
- EU Blue Card
- For graduate jobs above a salary threshold; each country issues its own
- Germany
- Blue Card, skilled worker and Opportunity Card applications go through the Consular Services Portal
- Before you fly
- Protector of Emigrants registration in Pakistan
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