Major unemployment is taking Kamenica youth to Croatia and other European countries

Kamenica is empty day-day. Young people in this municipality have begun to take their way abroad to work.

Most of them are headed towards Croatia, and others in other countries. This opportunity is offering a newly opened office in this city, whose officials are informing citizens of the working conditions. Gazeta Express's team has been standing there today and bringing the confession of citizens and of the person sending them to Croatia.

In front of the doors, a small sternk in downtown Kamenica carried an ad from a hairman. But the function of this chiosque was not to cut hair. Officials inside had another mission. They offered working visas to Croatia.

And the citizens' interest in those visas was great. Dozens of young people waited in line Wednesday at noon to get inside the stern, thus getting the necessary information that would enable them to travel to Croatia.

The Express newspaper, on Wednesday, was in that stand.

A person of about 40 gave advice to citizens, mainly from the Kamenica and Gjilan region, on how to apply to obtain a working visa in Croatia.
100 euros costs visa application to this person's office. Meanwhile, it would be expected up to 40 days of maximum term at Croatia's embassy.

And if the working visa is issued on the part of Croatia's embassy, the applicant will have to pay another 400 euros for several other procedures.

All it takes for the application is a copy of the passport, as well as a photograph of the Croatian visa format that is handed over to this office.

I guarantee you the visa will each receive after the application here. If you don't get a visa, I'll pay you back. But I can only guarantee you if you don't have a problem with the state, there's nothing I can do about it”, the citizens who stayed in that office told the person who said he was sending young people out of Kosovo to work.

The most popular professions are like appleters and welders in some of Croatia's largest cities. The salary depended on between 1,000 and 1,000 euros a month on one year contract.

All these young people are travelling with regular working visas to Croatia.
Leaving Kosovo is very difficult for this young man from Kamenica. I'll pay another 1000 euros if I have to, unless they give me a visa of” told the citizens waiting for a young man from this city.

And Rexhep Morina was asking about terms of application for his son. He told the newspaper that with regular work contracts, his son is willing to travel to Croatia.

These are providing regular work contracts. The boy wants to go, let him go”, Rexhepi said.

Shaip Leci, citizen of Gjilan, also took the road to Croatia.

I had a private firm, but that's where I found myself better. There are big job requirements there about 8,000 people are required to go there by testing it”.
While for the police, the person sending these young people out of Kosovo, they are doing this job in regular procedure. Police say they have not launched any investigation into the event.

We as police have yet to start investigations. As much as we have information, the activity there is under way in regular procedure”, police spokesman for the Gjilan region, Ismet Hashani, has told Express.

Otherwise, each year the poorest country in the region leaves about 10,000 people. But last year this figure has increased.

According to recent data from the Kosovo Statistics Agency, summed up in the “population assessment 2017” report, the number that has issued Kosovo over the past year is 11 thousand and 263 people, writes the Express.

“The international migration: the number of Kosovo immigrants during 2017 is estimated to be a total of 11,263 residents, including legal and illegal immigrants”, the ASS report says.

Most of those who left Kosovo for 2017 were legal immigrants. While the reason for migration was mainly because of family union, marriages, employment, permanent deportation (mostly in neighbouring states), or long - term employment studies.