Getting a welder's qualification recognised in Germany
German fabricators and shipyards can hire non EU welders. What stops most of them is not the visa — it is recognition. Under the Skilled Immigration Act the…
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ManBe Group's editorial team writes from the Kaunas office: recruiters, permit specialists and operations staff who place drivers, welders, construction and factory workers from India and Asia into Lithuania, Latvia and the wider EU. Articles draw on the team's day-to-day permit and placement work.
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A new manbegroup.com, with country hiring guides and a blog
We have rebuilt manbegroup.com. The design you already know is the same; what sits underneath it is new, and there are three additions worth pointing out. The…
Family reunification for workers in Lithuania
Ask a driver in his second year in Kaunas what he is thinking about and it is rarely the job. It is whether his wife and children can join him. This is the…
How we assess welders, electricians and drivers before they get on a plane
A CV tells you almost nothing about whether a welder can lay a clean root pass or whether a driver can reverse an articulated trailer into a loading bay. Every…
Renewing a residence permit and changing employer in Lithuania
The first permit gets all the attention. The renewal, and the possibility that the worker moves to another employer when it comes round, gets almost none —…
Moving to Lithuania for work: what your first 90 days look like
You have signed the contract, the visa is in your passport, and the flight is booked. What happens next is the part nobody explains properly. This guide walks…
Posting a worker from Lithuania to a client in another EU country
Some EU countries are close to impossible to hire blue collar workers into directly. The Netherlands is the clearest example: the GVVA single permit requires a…
Lithuania's annual quota for non-EU workers, explained for employers
In 2025 Lithuania replaced its labour market test with something simpler to administer and, for employers, easier to plan around — provided you understand the…
Germany's §24a route for non-EU truck drivers
For years the obstacle to hiring non EU drivers in Germany was circular: you needed a German licence to work, and you needed to be in Germany to get one. Since…
When a permit application is refused — what happens next
Refusals are uncommon on a well prepared file, but they happen, and the first hour after one arrives is usually spent on the wrong things. Here is what a…
Temporary residence permit or national D visa: which one does your new hire need?
Employers hiring from outside the EU into Lithuania hear two terms used almost interchangeably: the temporary residence permit and the national visa. They are…
The employer's mediation letter, explained
Everything in a Lithuanian work permit file waits on one document, and most employers have never heard of it before their first international hire. The…
Hiring non-EU truck drivers in Lithuania: the employer checklist
Lithuanian haulage companies have been hiring drivers from outside the EU for years, and the route is well trodden. What still catches employers out is…
Latvia or Lithuania: a practical comparison for employers
Companies operating on both sides of the border ask us regularly which country is easier to hire into. The honest answer is that they are close, and the…
Planning a seasonal hiring peak six months ahead
Every year we get the same call in August from a food producer who needs forty people in September. Sometimes we can help and sometimes we cannot, and the…
Why agency placements fail — four failure modes and how to avoid them
Employers who have used an agency before usually arrive with a story about one that went badly. It is worth taking those stories seriously, because they nearly…
The employer's first thirty days with a newly arrived crew
The permit is issued, the flights are booked, and four workers land on a Tuesday. What happens over the next month decides whether they are still with you in…
Accommodation: what employers are expected to provide
Accommodation is the part of international hiring that employers think about last and workers think about first. It is also, in our experience, the single most…
What it really costs to hire a third-country worker
We are asked for a price on the first call and we usually decline to give one, which frustrates people. It is not evasion. A number without its assumptions is…
Direct employment or temporary staffing: which model fits your operation
Companies usually arrive at us having already decided the answer to this question, and about half of them have decided wrong. Not because one model is better —…
Who employs the worker? What a temporary staffing contract actually covers
Most disputes between a company and a staffing agency come down to one question that nobody asked at the start: who actually employs this person? It sounds…