over 252,000 applications, boom in Campania- Corriere.it

On click day, last March 27, the requests presented by entrepreneurs through the Platform (ALI Services Portal) managed by the Immigration and Civil Liberties Department of the Ministry of the Interior, were over 252 thousand, while the Meloni government, with the Flows Decree, has set at only 82,705 the number of foreign workers who can come to Italy for employment reasons, even seasonal ones. Therefore, for companies now no less than 100-150 thousand employees are missing. Among the applications, 109,000 came from Campania alone, as reported in a note published on the website of the Ministry of the Interior. Followed by Lazio (20,879 applications), Veneto (20,661), Puglia (17,830), Lombardy (15,790), Sicily (15,147), Emilia-Romagna (11,656) and Calabria (10,565). While at the provincial level, Naples is in the lead, with 68,034 applications, followed by Salerno (19837) and Caserta (17,828).

151,000 applications for seasonal work

Now, agricultural and tourist entrepreneurs are asking to reopen the quotas. And the government is forced to redo the accounts. While the Interior Ministry denied in recent days that there were already hypotheses on the table, Ministers Calderone and Piantedosi opened up the possibility of allowing new click days. The requests mainly concern seasonal work in the fields and in the tourism sector, which presents a number of applications equal to 151,502, of which 303 for multi-year seasonal workers. Applications for non-seasonal subordinate work are instead 96,215 and are concentrated above all in the building sector (70.72%).

Workers from Bangladesh, India and Morocco

Meanwhile, the note from the Ministry of the Interior continues, the applications presented by employers who have indicated the name of each worker in the application, in compliance with the countries of origin indicated by the Flows Decree (46.13% concern people from Bangladesh , 18.7% from India and 18.02% from Morocco), and the related employment sector, are being distributed, by province, to each Immigration Desk. In fact, it is up to them to start the preliminary investigation phase and then proceed with the revocation or clearance that will allow the workers to obtain an entry visa. Only at this point will the government have a clear idea of ​​how many foreigners are missing to collect fruit and vegetables and to bring home a tourist season that promises to be sold out.