Fast track: Instructions for employers
An employee who intends to come to Finland can use the fast-track service if they are applying for one of the following residence permits:
- residence permit for persons employed as a specialist
- residence permit for a specialist or manager on the basis of intra-corporate transfer (‘ICT residence permit’)
- EU Blue Card
- residence permit for persons working in top or middle management
With the fast track service, the employee can get a residence permit within 14 days and arrive in Finland immediately after the residence permit has been granted. If your employee is already in Finland, he or she will not be able to apply using the fast track service.
Fast-tracking the application requires that both the employee and the employer use Enter Finland
After your employee has submitted an application in Enter Finland, you must add the terms of employment to the employee’s application in Enter Finland for Employers within two (2) working days.
If your employees use the fast track service, you cannot pay for their applications in Enter Finland. In order to use the fast track service, employees must pay for their applications themselves in Enter Finland before submitting the application.
See our visual summary (pdf) of the fast-track process for employees.
This is what you should do:
- First, visit the suomi.fi online service and request a mandate to represent your company.
- Create an account in Enter Finland for Employers.
- The employee’s application is linked to your company with the help of your Business ID.
Log in to your account in Enter Finland for Employers and add the terms of employment to the employee’s application within two (2) working days of receiving the message that your employee has submitted an application.
- You can also attach documents or additional information to the application.
- If you fail to add the terms of employment within two working days, it will not be possible to fast-track the processing of the employee’s application.
If your employees use the fast track service, you cannot pay for their applications in Enter Finland. In order to use the fast track service, employees must pay for their applications themselves in Enter Finland before submitting the application.