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Property & Immigration

Foreign Registration & Work Visas

Whether you are transiting through Bulgaria, building your business here, or making it your new home - YARD Law Co. provides comprehensive legal assistance with visas, residence, work authorisation, and Bulgarian citizenship. We treat immigration procedures as legal processes with long-term consequences, where mistakes lead to rejections, delays, and loss of time and resources.

Visa types

  • Type A visa (airport transit)
  • Type C visa (short-term residence)
  • Type D visa (long-term residence)

Residence permits

  • Temporary residence applications
  • Long-term residence applications
  • Permanent residence applications
  • Renewal and extension of permits
  • Change of grounds for residence

Legal work authorisation

  • Work permits and registration
  • Procedures for hiring foreign workers
  • Coordination between migration and labour authorities
  • Representation of employer and employee

Long-term residence - grounds and common risks

Long-term residence in Bulgaria gives the right to live lawfully for up to one year, renewable. The most common grounds include: business activity or participation in a Bulgarian company; employment contract with a Bulgarian employer; freelance work or secondment; study at a licensed institution; family grounds.

Common reasons for refusal: formal compliance without real substance; mismatch between stated grounds and actual activity; procedural failures at renewal; interruption of residence outside permitted periods.

Bulgarian citizenship

  • Applications by descent
  • Naturalisation applications
  • Document preparation and review
  • Legal assessment of feasibility