>the only condition for getting a specialist visa should be to find an employer willing to pay a specialist salary
Countries in Europe do precisely this but take it slightly further. Take Ireland[0] and Sweden[1], for prime examples. For those of you who don't want to read the links: The company has to have a minimum salary (oft above the standard cost of living) for the employee to obtain (and retain) the permit.
(On an aside, in Sweden, they go a step further in that the contract must also be approved by the relevant union that company has agreements with.)
It is not really a specialist salary enforced in that law. I've been living in Sweden for 5 years now, as an immigrant, soon to be citizen.
The required salary quota, which is 15.000 swedish krona per month, is less than half of an average developer salary.
And that thing about union, is not as bureaucratic, as you make it sound. Company has to be part of a Union as a whole, to offer work-visa for immigrants. That's almost all there is to it. They dont really check each individual contract.
(Jag tänka att du inte förstod min svar men jag ska skriver i engelska, så alla kan att läsa.)
>It is not really a specialist salary enforced in that law.
To which law do you refer? The minimum stated on the original page that I referred? You would be correct that it's not a specialist salary; however, to suggest that it simply does not exist would be fool-hearty. Migrationsverket has documentation specific to that[0].
>The required salary quota, which is 15.000 swedish krona per month, is less than half of an average developer salary.
An average developer's salary, where? I can tell you that the average developer's salary in Östergötland, for example, is far less than in other places in Europe.
>They dont really check each individual contract.
A "check" is vastly different that an approval, yeah? You could've easily found this information[1] yourself, as it's freely available on Migrationsverket's site.
Countries in Europe do precisely this but take it slightly further. Take Ireland[0] and Sweden[1], for prime examples. For those of you who don't want to read the links: The company has to have a minimum salary (oft above the standard cost of living) for the employee to obtain (and retain) the permit.
(On an aside, in Sweden, they go a step further in that the contract must also be approved by the relevant union that company has agreements with.)
[0] - https://dbei.gov.ie/en/What-We-Do/Workplace-and-Skills/Emplo...
[1] - https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/...