Moving to Greece should not feel like a second job
Mazi started in Athens from a simple observation: the hard part of hiring into Greece is almost never the hiring. It is the permit file that comes back for one missing translation, the appointment nobody can book, the apartment that falls through because the tax number (AFM) is not issued yet — and the HR team abroad who has no way to see any of it happening.
So we built the thing we wished existed: licensed Greek immigration counsel for the legal work, an Athens team doing the ground work — housing, tax (AFM) and social security (AMKA) numbers, banking, schools — and one dashboard where the company and the person moving both see the same live status.
Mazi combines immigration and relocation expertise with a technology layer that makes each case visible, trackable and easier to coordinate.
Mazi at a glance
- What Mazi is
- An immigration and relocation coordination service for Greece, with an online platform where the employer, the employee and the reviewing lawyer follow the same case.
- Who it is for
- Companies hiring non-EU employees into Greece — skilled hires and seasonal or workforce hiring — and individuals and families moving on their own.
- Services
- Work and residence permits, including the EU Blue Card; metaklisi (the employer invitation procedure for workers from outside the EU); relocation and settling-in: housing, tax number (AFM), social security number (AMKA), bank account and schools; renewals and family reunification.
- Legal work
- Done by licensed Greek immigration lawyers. Mazi coordinates the case, the documents and the appointments.
- Where
- Athens in person. The rest of Greece, including Thessaloniki and the islands, remotely with local partners.
- Languages
- Greek and English.
- Fees
- A fixed fee, given in writing before you commit. Government charges are passed through at cost.
- Stage
- Early-stage, based in Athens, founded by Panos Dimopoulos. No client counts or approval rates are published.
- Contact
- hello@maziconnect.com or a free 20-minute intro call.
Panos has worked across asylum casework with the EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA), labour-market integration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and Greek immigration consultancy — advising clients directly on visa categories, residence permits, tax registration and social security enrolment.
That work kept surfacing the same problem: employers and employees were left coordinating lawyers, authorities and relocation providers separately, with no single place to see the whole case. Mazi is the attempt to fix that.
"The word 'mazi' means 'together' in Greek. That's exactly how we work — together with you, every step of the way."
Radical transparency
You get the full fee in writing before you commit. Government charges are passed through at cost. Every demo screen on this site is labelled as illustrative, because it is.
Lawyers do the legal work
Legal advice, and any filing that needs a lawyer, comes from licensed Greek immigration counsel. Mazi coordinates, tracks and keeps everyone informed — we never blur that line.
One place for everything
HR, the employee and the reviewing counsel coordinate around one case, with access to documents and updates appropriate to their role.
What we will not claim
Plenty of relocation sites open with a wall of numbers. We are new enough that ours would be invented, so here is the honest version instead.
- We are early-stage and publish no client counts, approval rates or satisfaction scores.
- The dashboards on this site are product demos with sample data, not client cases.
- Timelines we quote are the legal and administrative norms, not promises.
- If a route is a bad fit for you, we say so on the call rather than sell it.