If your employee applies for a residence permit online, you can supplement the application with information about the employment and your company in the Enter Finland for Employers service as well as pay the application on behalf of the employee. You can follow the processing of the employee’s application in Enter Finland without the need to queue for our telephone service.
To make sure that you have the right to handle matters online for your company, we use the service Suomi.fi e-Authorizations.
If the employee has more than one employer, only one of them can use the Enter Finland for Employers service. Other employers have to submit the necessary attachments on paper.
The employee can give the permission in Enter Finland in the section ‘Employment details’ in the 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’. When you fill in the terms of employment in Enter Finland, you do not need to submit the form TY6_plus (seasonal work) or the form TEM 0.54 (residence permit for an employed person).
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 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.
Employee announcement
You must submit an employee announcement if you are employing a person who comes from outside the EU or EEA and already has a valid residence permit and right to work.
Under law, an employer who employs a worker from outside the EU must submit an employee announcement to an Employment and Economic Development Office (TE Office). For more information about the employee announcement, see the website of the TE Services (in Finnish).
If you are unable to use Enter Finland for Employers, fill in the form TEM 0.54 and send it to a TE Office.
If your employee is now applying for a residence permit, and you have already added or will add the terms of employment in the employee’s application, you do not need to submit an employee announcement.
Filling in the terms of employment
You can fill in the terms of employment for your employee’s application online in Enter Finland for Employers.
If your employee is applying for a residence permit as an employed person and you are not able to use Enter Finland for Employers, you can submit the terms of employment on paper by filling in the form TEM 0.54.
If your employee is applying for a residence permit using the fast track service, you must fill in the terms of employment in Enter Finland for Employers within two days after your employee has sent their application.
Your employee must give permission to this in his or her own application in Enter Finland in the section ‘Employment details’.
Your employee must enter your Business ID in his or her application. The Business ID links your company to the employee’s application.
You can supplement your employee’s application as soon as the employee has submitted his or her application in Enter Finland.
Please note that your employee will no longer be able to share the application with you after he or she has sent it.
If you are going to employ several persons with the same terms of employment, you can fill in the terms of employment for all employees in one go in Enter Finland.
Employee’s details
Name, citizenship, date of birth.
Details of the employer/contractor
Name of person responsible, title, email, phone number.
Main terms and conditions of employment
For example: professional field, principal duties, duration of employment, trial period, determination of annual holiday, determination of working time, determination of pay, benefits offered by the employer, collective agreement applied, location of work, and term of notice.
Sample image of the terms of employment to be filled in online in Enter Finland for Employers:
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