This Law shall apply to government bodies, business entities regardless of their form of ownership, including persons registered in the Kyrgyz Republic as individual entrepreneurs and carrying out business activities without forming a legal entity, engaged in activities related to sending citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic to work abroad, attracting and using foreign labor in the Kyrgyz Republic (hereinafter referred to as business entities), as well as migrant workers and members of their families.
This Law shall not apply to foreign citizens and stateless persons:
a) who have received refugee status or political asylum in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic;
b) permanently residing in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic

Foreign citizens and stateless persons enjoy the right to freely dispose of their labor abilities, choose the type of activity and profession if they have the appropriate document on professional education or work experience with supporting documents, as well as the right to freely use their abilities and property for entrepreneurial and other economic activities not prohibited by law.
A foreign citizen or stateless person temporarily staying for the purpose of carrying out labor activities in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic is issued a work permit by the authorized state body in the field of migration in the manner determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic, subject to the employer depositing funds (guarantee contribution) into an account specially opened by the authorized state body in the field of migration, necessary to ensure the departure of a foreign worker by the appropriate type of transport from the Kyrgyz Republic.
The procedure for the employer to deposit funds necessary to ensure the departure of foreign workers from the Kyrgyz Republic, and the procedure for returning such funds to the employer are established by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic.
A state fee is charged for issuing a work permit.
Border migrant workers carry out labor activities on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic in the manner established by Article 14 of this Law.