Enter Finland for Employers

• See Who can use Enter Finland for Employers to represent a company? to see if your role allows you to use Enter Finland or if you need to request a mandate.
• 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 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.

You may use Enter Finland for Employers on behalf of your company if your role is one of the following:

• managing director
• substitute for the managing director
• auditor
• key audit partner
• additional auditor
• self-employed person
• liquidator
• manager of a limited liability housing company (‘isännöitsijä’)
• manager bearing the primary responsibility for management of a limited liability housing company (‘päävastuullinen isännöitsijä’)
• partner in a general partnership or limited partnership (‘yhtiömies’)
• chairperson of the board of directors in a limited liability company
• member of the board of directors in a limited liability company
• person with the right to sign for the company individually.

If your role does not automatically entitle you to represent the company, you must apply for a mandate on Suomi.fi to act on behalf of the company. Once a representative of your company has granted you the mandate ‘work-based immigration’, you can start using Enter Finland for Employers. With this mandate, you can act on behalf of the company when the company needs to submit information about a foreign employee’s residence permit application or about employment supervision matters.

The mandate can be requested and granted on the Suomi.fi website on the page Grant and request authorisations.

Acting on behalf of a company is not possible in the following cases:

• If a right to represent the company without a personal identity code has been entered in the Trade Register for the person acting on behalf of the company.
• If the company’s status according to the Trade Register is either bankrupt, undergoing restructuring proceedings, or in liquidation.
• If the status of the person acting on behalf of the company is other than ‘normal’ according to the Trade Register.

See Acting on behalf of an organisation (suomi.fi) to find out more about acting on behalf of a company and when it might not be possible.

• 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.