Enter Finland for Employers
If your employee applies for a residence permit online, you can to supplement the application with information about the employment and your company in the Enter Finland for Employers service. You can also pay for 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.
How to use the Enter Finland for Employers service
This is what you should do:
- 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.
- 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 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.
- You can pay the processing fee for more than one application at a time.
- 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.
The part of the decision that you have the right to appeal against will be served on you:
- If the permit requires a partial decision from the TE Office, the partial decision will always be sent to the employer. This is the case with residence permits for an employed person and with residence permits for seasonal work granted for 6–9 months.
- The decision issued by the Finnish Immigration Service will be sent to the employer only if the application has been rejected for 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. 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.
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).
- 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.
If you are unable to use Enter Finland for Employers, fill in the employee announcement paper form and send it to the TE Office.