Quota for foreign employees and the list of specialized positions for foreign employees to work in Mongolia for 2024

Mongolia • No. 05/2023 • November 2023

The Government of Mongolia (the “Cabinet”) annually enacts foreign employee quotas for entities operating in Mongolia. The Cabinet updated the quota for 2024 by issuing Resolution #360 dated 5th of October 2023 (the “Resolution #360”). Additionally, the list of specialized positions for foreign employees to work in Mongolia was enacted by Resolution #359 (the “Resolution #359”) on the aforementioned date.

In brief

Under Article 22.1 of the Labour Migration Law (the “LML”), which has been effective from the 1st of July 2022, the number of foreign employees to work in Mongolia for different economic sectors is determined by the Cabinet within the 1st of October every year. Subsequently, the quota for foreign employees to work in Mongolia in 2024 based on the economic sectors was approved under the Resolution #360.

The quota set for each economic sector takes effect from the 1st of January 2024, according to the Resolution #360. The quota for 2024 ranges from 10-10000 foreign employees, totaling 27851 foreign employees to work in Mongolia in 2024, including 10000 for mining, 5000 for construction, 60 for communication, and 10 for real state sectors, respectively.