Romania work permit check

What a real Romania work permit looks like: three documents, one order

There are three documents, and they always come in this order. First your employer, a company registered in Romania, applies to the General Inspectorate for Immigration (IGI). IGI issues the aviz de muncă (work authorisation) in the employer’s name, for you, for one specific job.

Second, with that authorisation you apply for the D/AM long-stay visa at a Romanian consulate. You file it yourself, in person. Third, after arrival IGI issues a residence permit card for employment, valid up to 2 years¹² and renewable.

So if an agent sends you a single “Romania work permit photo” and says the visa is already done, something is missing. The visa cannot exist before the work authorisation, and the residence card cannot exist before you enter Romania.

How to check a Romania work permit: real or fake

Check the chain, not the picture. Many search for a “Romania work permit check app” or a check by passport number. We do not list any public online lookup here, because none appears in the official sources we track. Do not trust a website or app an agent sends you for “verification”: fake agencies build their own.

What works:

• Ask for the employer’s full legal name and its registration number, and confirm the company exists in the Romanian Trade Register.
• Contact the employer directly, using contact details you found yourself, not the ones on the agent’s paper. Ask them to confirm your name, job title and salary.
• Ask IGI or the Romanian consulate where you will file the D/AM visa, through their official contacts, whether the authorisation number is genuine.
• Check the salary: the offer must be at least national gross minimum wage³⁴, which from July 2026 is RON 4,325/month³ gross per month.

Red flags of a fake Romania work permit

A work permit you can only see as a photo is not a work permit. It is a sales pitch.

Most fraud we see follows the same script. The agent asks for money first, then sends a “work permit photo” or PDF, then asks for more money for the “visa”.

• You paid an agent before any Romanian employer signed a job offer with your name on it.
• The document has no employer name, or the employer cannot be found in the Trade Register.
• The salary is below the minimum wage, or in a currency other than lei.
• You are told the visa will be “stamped” without a consulate appointment. The D/AM visa is filed by you, at the consulate.
• The agent promises a “Europe work permit” valid anywhere. A Romanian permit ties you to one Romanian employer.
• You are asked to pay the fee for the work authorisation. In the procedure, the employer applies to IGI for it.

Status check: where your file is, step by step

A real case moves in visible steps, each with a paper you can hold: the employer’s IGI application, the aviz de muncă, your consulate appointment, the D/AM visa in your passport, and finally the residence card. If the agent cannot tell you which step you are at, and show the document of the previous step, stop paying.

Numbers are also capped. The 2026 quota is 90,000⁵ newly admitted foreign workers for the whole country. A single agent offering hundreds of “ready permits” should make you suspicious.

What we check for you

Send us what the agent gave you. We read the documents, check the employer in the Romanian registers, and tell you which link of the chain exists and which is missing. If the offer is real, we can prepare and file the visa file with your employer. See prices.