Residence permit for employment with international organisations and cooperation between states
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Oleskelulupahakemus kansainvälisten järjestöjen ja valtioiden välisen yhteistyön perusteella as of 2026-08-22[3] Heading of the Finnish-language edition of this route's own page on migri.fi, transcribed as published. Migri's Finnish headings are application-form titles rather than permit names; this field carries the statutory permit name where an act supplies one, and the authority's published heading where it does not. |
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| Official name (English) | Residence permit for employment with international organisations and cooperation between states as of 2026-08-21[3][6] |
| Legal basis | Ulkomaalaislaki 301/2004 (Aliens Act, consolidated to 22 December 2025), section 74(1)(5) as of 2026-08-22[7] Section 74 is the residual work provision, headed “Muu oleskelulupa ansiotyötä tai elinkeinon harjoittamista varten”, and it carries eleven enumerated grounds in a single subsection. This route is ground 5, identified by the statute's own words: “toimii kansainvälisessä järjestössä tai valtioiden väliseen viralliseen yhteistyöhön liittyvissä tehtävissä”. Subsection 3 sets one means test for all eleven grounds: “toimeentulo on turvattu … tulolla, joka pääosin saadaan siitä perusteesta, jota varten oleskelulupa myönnetään”. The labour market test in sections 72 and 72 b does not apply to any of them. |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-08-21[5][6] |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA, EFTA as of 2026-08-21[1][5] Migri states that citizens of an EU Member State, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland must register their right of residence rather than apply for a residence permit. Mapped to the eu, eea and efta bloc ids: the four named non-EU states are exactly the EEA/EFTA set, and the vocabulary has no separate id for Switzerland alone. |
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Permit terms
| Initial duration | Not established from a qualifying source Migri's page states no term for this permit. |
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| Work rights | employment only as of 2026-08-21[3] The right to perform the work the permit was granted for, beginning when the permit is granted and ending when it expires. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Not established from a qualifying source |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2026-08-21[3] Confirmed employment in an international organisation, or in duties concerning official cooperation between states, before applying. |
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| Labour-market test | No as of 2026-08-21[4] Migri's labour market test page carries an exhaustive list of the permits to which labour market testing applies – the residence permit for an employed person, and the residence permit for seasonal work where the work lasts 6-9 months. This route is not on it. Recorded false on that enumeration, not on this route page's silence. |
| Employer sponsorship | Not established from a qualifying source Not established; the only reachable page for this permit does not describe the employer's role in the application. |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-08-21[3] |
Process
| Where to apply from | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. The only reachable page for this permit is an evidently superseded one that does not state where the application is submitted; the current-locale page returns an empty body. See RM-FI-9. |
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| Observed processing time | 1 to 2 months as of 2026-08-21[3] First permit, online application, per Migri's page – which also states 2-4 months for an extended permit and 2 months for a first paper application. The page appears to be superseded, so these figures carry the same caveat as its fees. |
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Physical presence
| none stated | to keep the permit as of 2026-08-21[3] Migri's route page states no residence or presence condition for keeping this permit. Recorded none_stated on that basis, not as a positive statement that absence is unlimited. Continuity of residence bites later, at the permanent-residence and naturalisation stages, which are recorded at country level. |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Not established from a qualifying source Not established; the only reachable page for this permit says nothing about family members. |
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Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 7 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 7 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2026-08-21 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-22 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-22 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] First residence permit
Finnish Immigration Service (Maahanmuuttovirasto, Migri) · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-20 - [2] Income requirement for persons who apply for a residence permit on the basis of work
Finnish Immigration Service (Maahanmuuttovirasto, Migri) · official guidance · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-20 - [3] Residence permit for employment with international organisations and cooperation between states
Finnish Immigration Service (Maahanmuuttovirasto) · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-21 - [4] Labour market test
Finnish Immigration Service (Maahanmuuttovirasto) · official guidance · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-21 · Archived copy - [5] Residence permit types
Finnish Immigration Service (Maahanmuuttovirasto, Migri) · official guidance · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-20 - [6] Residence permits on the basis of work
Finnish Immigration Service (Maahanmuuttovirasto) · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-21 - [7] Ulkomaalaislaki 301/2004 (Aliens Act, consolidated text)
Oikeusministeriö / Finlex · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2025-12-22 · Accessed 2026-08-22