Information about right to work

If you have a residence permit, you can find information about your right to work on your residence permit card. If you do not have a residence permit or you are unsure of your right to work, you can ask the Finnish Immigration Service about your right to work by email.
The Finnish Immigration Service will reply by email and state whether you have a valid right to work at that moment. 

You will get information about your right to work by email

You can ask about your or your employee’s right to work by email. Send an email message to tto@migri.fi. For data protection reasons, we recommend that you send us an encrypted email message using the service at securemail.migri.fi. If you cannot send encrypted email, you can send us a normal email message. 

If you wish to receive information about your right to work, include the following details in your message:

1. last name
2. first name
3. customer number (which can be found on your residence permit card, reception centre client card or certificate of pending application next to ‘asiakasnumero’.)
4. email address

If you are an employer and wish to know if your employee has a valid right to work, include the following details in your message:

1. your employee’s last name
2. your employee’s first name
3. customer number (which can be found on your employee’s residence permit card, reception centre client card or certificate of pending application next to ‘asiakasnumero’.)
4. your own name
5. name of your company
6. email address

You will receive an email message within 2 weeks stating whether your or your employee’s right to work is valid or not. 

Email message describes your right to work at that moment

You can see the date when the email message has been sent at the top of the message. If your situation has changed after the message was sent, also your right to work may have changed. 

Read more about right to work on our web page Work in Finland.