EnterFinland : Employer

In this service, you can supplement your employee’s online residence permit application with information about the employment and your company, and pay for the application on behalf of the employee. 

You can use Enter Finland for Employers if you have a Business ID and your company has been registered in the Finnish Trade Register. Before creating an account in Enter Finland for Employers, visit the Suomi.fi service to request a mandate to represent your company or association. Choose the mandate ‘Employment-based immigration’. For instructions on how to request a mandate, see the website Suomi.fi.

Create a user account in Enter Finland using strong electronic identification, such as online banking credentials. After that you must confirm that you have the right to represent your company in Enter Finland. To do that, the service will direct you to the website Suomi.fi.

You can supplement your employee’s application when the employee has given a permission for this in his or her application in Enter Finland on the page ‘Employment details’. When giving the permission, the employee also enters your company’s Business ID, with which the information you provide will be linked to the employee’s application.

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You can communicate with TE Offices through Enter Finland only if the matter is related to residence permit application for an employed person or to employee announcements.

To be able to use Enter Finland for Employers, you must have a mandate to represent the company or association. Request a mandate in the online service Suomi.fi.

You can submit the terms of employment, add information and attachments and pay the application processing fee on behalf of your employee. If more information is needed for the application, you will get a request for additional information in Enter Finland and receive a notification of this by email and as text message.

You will see the status of your employee’s application in Enter Finland for Employers. Enter Finland for Employers checks the information directly from the case management system of the Finnish Immigration Service and the TE Offices. You can also check the application’s place in the processing queue by asking chatbot Kamu, who can be found on the bottom right corner of the page.

If the application is for a residence permit for an employed person, which requires a partial decision by a TE office, you will be informed of the partial decision of the TE Office.You will be able to see in Enter Finland for Employers when the Finnish Immigration Service decision has been made, even though you cannot see the actual decision document.

If your employee already has a valid residence permit and the right to work, you can just submit an employee announcement. You do not need to submit the announcement if you fill in the terms of employment in the employee’s application for a work-based residence permit.

In other words, when employing a third-country national, you must submit an employee announcement to a TE Office one way or another. Submit the announcement also if your employee has applied for temporary protection. For information about submitting an employee announcement, see the website of the TE Offices.

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