Enter Finland for Employers

• Visit the suomi.fi online service and request a mandate to represent your company. 
• Select the authorization: Work-based immigration
• The use of Enter Finland for Employers requires that you are able to use Suomi.fi e-Authorizations. Otherwise, you will not be able to use Enter Finland. If you cannot use Enter Finland, you need to supplement your employee’s application by filling in the ‘Terms of employment’ paper form. The employee should then attach the form to the residence permit application.

• Enter Finland for Employers

• The employee can give the permission in Enter Finland in the section ‘Employment details’ when he or she fills in the residence permit application.
• The employee must enter your Business ID in his or her application. The Business ID helps to link your company to the employee’s application.
• You can supplement the employee’s application as soon as the employee has submitted the application in Enter Finland.

Fill in the terms of employment on the first page of the application in section ‘Terms of employment’. If you fill in the terms of employment in Enter Finland, you do not need to submit the ’Terms of employment’ paper form or the form TY6_plus (seasonal work).

• If you are employing several workers, you can fill in the terms of employment in one go for all employees working under the same terms and conditions in section ‘Submit terms of employment for several employees at a time’.
• If the employee has more than one employer, only one of them can use the Enter Finland for Employers service. The other employers need to fill in a ‘Terms of employment’ paper form.

• If you are employing more than one worker, remember to attach the documents separately to each employee’s application.

• If your employee has already paid the application, you will not see the payment window in your account.
• If your employees use the fast track service, you cannot pay for their applications in Enter Finland

• The partial decision of a TE office is needed for a residence permit for seasonal work lasting for 6 to 9 months and for a residence permit for an employed person (TTOL). 

• You will get a notification by email and text message that a request for additional information has arrived in Enter Finland.

You will be able to see in Enter Finland when a decision has been made on the application. 

You can read the decision only if the employee has applied for a residence permit for an employed person (TTOL) or a residence permit for seasonal work that lasts for 6 to 9 months and requires a partial decision, or if a negative decision has been made on an application for a seasonal work certificate or residence permit due to reasons related to the employer.

• Create an account, or log in to your existing account in Enter Finland for Employers.

Include the following information in the announcement: 

• a copy of the employee’s passport or residence permit card
• details of the employee
• details of the employer
• information on the duration of the employment relationship
• information on salary
• information on the applicable collective agreement.