Before you travel
A finite pre-departure evidence checklist before accepting and travelling for a job in Romania.
1. Identify every actor
- Write the full legal name of the origin-country recruiter/agency.
- Write the Romanian placement agency, if one exists.
- Write the Romanian employer separately.
- Record licence/registration numbers and do not treat a WhatsApp display name as a legal identity.
2. Freeze the deal before travel
- Keep the job advertisement and recruiter promises.
- Keep the firm job offer and every contract version.
- Write gross salary, net salary, hours, overtime, accommodation, transport, deductions and repatriation separately.
- Do not allow a last-minute document to silently replace an earlier promise; record what changed.
3. Verify the route
- Use your origin country’s official recruitment/foreign-employment systems.
- Use official Romanian immigration and WorkinRomania information for the Romanian side.
- Separate government fees from agency/service/travel costs.
- Record what a register actually says; “listed” is not “safe”, and “not found” is not automatically “fraud”.
4. Carry your own evidence
- Keep copies of passport/visa/residence documents under your control.
- Keep contracts, receipts, messages and company contacts somewhere you can access without the employer.
- Record important dates: offer, signature, payment, travel, first workday and visa/residence deadlines.
- After arrival, compare the first job, first payslip, hours, deductions and accommodation with what was promised.
How to read the evidence: Government guidance explains a process. A document mismatch needs checking. A register entry does not make a job safe.