Uzbekistan to open a migration center in every region: UZS 8bn each, with a push on German
Germany requested 45,000 specialists from Uzbekistan this year but hired only 2,000 — the main obstacle being a lack of German-language skills. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev ordered a single migration center in every region, each funded with UZS 8bn.
On November 2, 2026, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a meeting on labor migration and on targeted language and vocational training for citizens seeking work abroad. The meeting set a task to open a single migration center in every region from 2027 and to allocate UZS 8bn (about $663,854) to each.
Germany asked for 45,000, only 2,000 went
According to official data, Germany requested 45,000 specialists from Uzbekistan this year, but only 2,000 were hired. A shortage of professionals who speak German was cited as the main obstacle. The president stressed the need to combine vocational training with language instruction and to align vocational-school curricula with the requirements of foreign employers.
A single center in every region
First deputy regional governors were instructed to study the experience of the Intil center in Tashkent and to establish a single migration center in each region next year. Each region will receive UZS 8bn for this purpose. In addition, 20 technical schools are to be selected within a month and adapted to train specialists to foreign employers' requirements.
Teaching German like English
Under the government's plan, 10,000 people will be trained in vocational skills and German next year and placed in jobs in Germany. To expand language teaching, 500 native German speakers will be recruited for schools and technical colleges in 2027, and the state-funded quota for training German-language teachers in higher education will double. Some 200,000 young people in the country already know English and hold relevant certificates. “We need to teach German to young people using the same approach as we do for English,” the president said.
Cooperation with German companies
In cooperation with Germany's Globogate, 1,500 nurses are trained annually at 20 medical colleges across Uzbekistan. At the Advanced Vocational Training College in Karshi, German instructors teach students both the language and the profession; in Andijan, an entrepreneur is renovating an unused vocational school and training 1,500 specialists a year. Germany's Telc has begun training 100 German-language teachers at the Intil center, who are expected to start at regional vocational schools in early 2027. Companies from Germany, Japan and South Korea have expressed interest in training specialists at Uzbek technical schools.
The wider picture
The meeting noted that 287,000 jobs are available in 34 countries this year. Over the past decade, the number of Uzbeks working abroad has halved while remittances have quadrupled. More than 1.1 million labor migrants have returned home since the start of the year.
