President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Nov. 2 criticized embassies, governors’ offices and educational institutions for not doing enough to place individuals in well-paid jobs abroad, his press secretary, Sherzod Asadov, said.

Speaking at a meeting on labor migration, Mirziyoyev said demand for specialists abroad is not being fully used. Germany sent requests for 45,000 specialists in 2026, but only 2,000 people were placed, mainly because of a shortage of German speakers.

He instructed first deputy governors of provinces to study the experience of the Intil international training center and to create a single migration center in each province in 2027, with 8 billion soums allocated to each. Next year’s target is to train 10,000 people in in-demand professions and German and place them in Germany.

Five hundred native German speakers are to be brought into schools and technical schools in 2027, and the state-funded quota for training German teachers at universities is to double from the next academic year.

“German should be taught with the same approach as English is taught to young people,” Mirziyoyev said.

He also ordered officials to select 20 technical schools within a month and adapt their curricula to foreign employers’ requirements from 2027.

Britain needs 33,000 workers, the president said, but individuals go there mainly for seasonal farm work. He pointed to a lack of agreements with employers in health care, logistics and industry, and said participation in Britain’s Youth Mobility Scheme remains unresolved.

Uzbekistan and Germany signed an intergovernmental agreement on migration and mobility in September 2024. In April, the president was told that requests had arrived for more than 100,000 skilled specialists, including 40,000 nurses for Germany. The Migration Agency said in October that 171,200 individuals had been placed in jobs abroad in 2026.