Implied (silent) refusal – the “kiss of death” or the administration’s revenge Implied refusal is one of the most unfair provisions in the Bulgarian legislation. An implied is when a citizen or a legal entity requests from an administrative authority to issue a certain individual administrative act. Such administrative actContinue Reading
Dealing with allowed (visa C or visa-free) stay when marrying in Bulgaria Bulgarian girls are beautiful, but Bulgarian guys seem to be attracting a lot of attention too. During the past 12 months, we receive roughly an equal amount of enquiries by foreign males and females, willing to marry BulgariansContinue Reading
United Kingdom is effectively banning its citizens from marrying foreigners The UK’s changes to the legal migration rules for family and work visas in 2024 is one of the most controversial acts of this century. What will basically happen is that the majority of the UK citizens will be deprivedContinue Reading
What will change in the Bulgarian Citizenship Law in 2023-2024? Today, 21.09.2023, the Bulgarian Parliament voted several bills to amend and supplement the Bulgarian Citizenship Law (BCL). The MPs were surprisingly unanimous, which makes us think that the Bulgarian Citizenship Law changes will be adopted at the second reading. ButContinue Reading
More and more Bulgarians meet Russian women on the Internet Over the past few years we have seen a trend of more and more dating between Bulgarian men and Russian girls on the Internet. The war between Russia and Ukraine has certainly given an extra push to many Russian citizensContinue Reading
What happens with the Bulgarian residence permit upon dismissal of the foreigner? More and more non-EU citizens are working in Bulgaria nowadays. But what happens if the Bulgarian employer terminates the labor contract of the foreigner. Or if the foreigner terminates the employment contract himself? To answer this question, weContinue Reading
Who is considered to be a family member of Bulgarian citizen according to the Bulgarian Foreigners Law? Those who are considered to be members of the family of Bulgarian citizen are defined in the Foreigners’ Law. We will today focus only on the spouse and the children and will explainContinue Reading
Obtaining Bulgarian visa D with a lawyer’s help – necessity or waste of money? Our clients are always supported by professional immigration lawyers through the process of the application for visa D. Let’s see however how important is the lawyer’s support and whether one can get along without it… TheContinue Reading
Bulgaria’s Investment Immigration Program is Not Dead (yet) Alexander Dobrinov is talking on Uglobal’s podcast about the future of the Bulgarian immigration by investment program. What is the outlook of the EU citizenship and residence by investment programs? What is set to change in the next 2 years? Are theContinue Reading