Residence permit application for an employed person (TTOL)

1. You have found a job

Your employer must supplement your application by filling in your terms of employment either online in Enter Finland or by using a paper form.

2. You have sufficient qualifications and education for the job in question. 

• Your employer must verify that you have the professional skills required for the job. Your employer must document this when they fill in the terms of employment for your application. 
• Health care professionals, for example, need a permission to practise their profession from Valvira, the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health.

3. You have sufficient income in Finland during the entire time your residence permit is valid. 

• Your salary has to be at least the minimum specified in the relevant collective agreement. 
• If there is no collective agreement or if you will be working part-time, your salary must be at least EUR 1,331 per month in 2023.
• Some of your salary may consist of fringe benefits, such as company car or employer-provided accommodation. When your salary is assessed, the taxable value of your fringe benefits will be taken into account in the calculation. For more information about the taxable values of fringe benefits, see the website of the Finnish Tax Administration.
• Read more on the page Income requirement.
• When you apply for an extended permit, the TE Office will assess whether your salary and income have been sufficient. 

In addition, you must meet the general requirements for obtaining a residence permit. See also the general requirements for granting a residence permit.

Have the attachments translated and legalised if needed.

• A valid passport accepted by Finland (um.fi). Present your passport when you submit your residence permit application
• Passport photo (PDF, poliisi.fi) complying with the photo guidelines issued by the police or a photograph retrieval code you received from a photo shop, OLEL_PK (PDF)
• Colour copies of the passport page containing personal data and of all passport pages that contain notes
• Document showing that you are legally staying in the country where you submit the application
• Form MP_1 (PDF) (if you already are in Finland and apply for your first residence permit)

The attachments are available in Albanian, Arabic, Farsi, Mandarin, Russian, Thai, Ukrainian, Uzbek and Vietnamese.

You can fill in the application online in Enter Finland. The fee for an online application is lower than for a paper application. If you apply for your first residence permit in Enter Finland, you might not need to visit a service point when you apply for an extended permit.

If you cannot use Enter Finland, fill in a paper application. You will find a link to the application at the bottom of the page.

If you apply for a residence permit online in Enter Finland, you need to pay the processing fee  

• with a credit card or with Finnish online banking credentials when you submit your application, or
• when you visit a Finnish embassy or consulate abroad or a service point of the Finnish Immigration Service in Finland to prove your identity.  

If you apply for a residence permit with a paper application, you need to pay the processing fee

• when you visit a Finnish embassy or consulate abroad or a service point of the Finnish Immigration Service in Finland to prove your identity.

After you have submitted your application in Enter Finland, your employer must add your terms of employment and other required documents to your application using Enter Finland for Employers. See the page Filling in the terms of employment to check what information your employer needs to fill in and which attachments are required. 

An employer who cannot use Enter Finland for Employers can fill in the ‘Terms of employment’ paper form. In that case, you need to attach the form to your application in Enter Finland. 

If you are submitting your residence permit application on paper, attach to your application the form ‘Terms of employment’, filled in by your employer.

• If you are abroad, book an appointment at a Finnish mission (embassy or consulate).
• If you are in Finland, book an appointment at a service point of the Finnish Immigration Service.

When you apply for an extended permit, you may avoid the need to visit a service point to prove your identity if you log in to Enter Finland using Finnish online banking credentials. Read more on the page Identification.

For more information, see: 

• Handling your matters at a Finnish mission
• Handling matters at a service point of the Finnish Immigration Service

• If you applied online in Enter Finland, you will receive notifications of your application's progress and of possible requests for additional information by email and text message.
• If you applied on paper, you will receive notifications of your application's progress and of possible requests for additional information by email.

For more information, see: Processing of applications

You can follow the processing of your application with the help of our chatbot, Kamu, by giving Kamu the diary number of your application. Kamu will also tell you the expected processing time of your application. 

For more information, see: What affects the processing time of your application

Among other things, the authorities may ask you for information about whether you have enough money to live in Finland.

If you were not issued a personal identity code together with your residence permit card, you must visit a service location of the Digital and Population Data Services Agency in person.

The Digital and Population Data Services Agency enters your personal details, information about your family relations and your address in the Population Information System. You can also apply for a municipality of residence at the Digital and Population Data Services Agency.

For more information, visit the website of the Digital and Population Data Services Agency (dvv.fi)