Worker residence status
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Trabajador as of 2023-11-14[1][8][9] Statutory name of the calidad migratoria in DL 1350 art. 29.2 lit. h; the Reglamento heads art. 88 "Calidad migratoria Trabajador". The authority's own procedure headings add the sub-type word — "Solicitud de Calidad Migratoria Trabajador Residente", "Cambio de Calidad Migratoria Trabajador Residente" — and the statutory name is recorded here, with the published heading noted |
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| Official name (English) | Worker residence status as of 2024-06-17[7] Translation. MIGRACIONES publishes no official English name for any calidad migratoria |
| Legal basis | Decreto Legislativo 1350 art. 29.2 lit. h (as amended by Decreto Legislativo 1582); Reglamento aprobado por Decreto Supremo 007-2017-IN arts. 88, 88-A (application from abroad), 88-B (change of status in-country) and 88-C (extension), art. 88.3 lit. b as amended by Decreto Supremo 002-2021-IN; Decreto Legislativo 689, Ley para la contratación de trabajadores extranjeros as of 2023-11-14[1][2][4][8][9] Arts. 88-A, 88-B and 88-C were incorporated into the Reglamento by DS 002-2021-IN and are the articles the current TUPA cites as base legal for the three procedures |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2021-03-24[4][8][9] A calidad migratoria evidenced by a carné de extranjería. On an application from abroad MIGRACIONES approves the calidad and notifies the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which authorises the visa at the Peruvian consulate before entry |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | Not applicable No supranational free-movement bloc of the kind this field records applies to Peru. Nationals of Andean Community and Mercosur states have their own treaty-based residence routes but are not excluded from this one |
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| Minimum age | Not applicable as of 2023-11-14[1][8][9] No minimum age condition appears in DL 1350 art. 29.2 lit. h, in Reglamento arts. 88 and 88-A, or in the published requirements. In practice the route runs through an employment contract approved by the labour authority, and Peruvian labour law sets its own minimum working age, which is not a condition of the calidad migratoria |
| Criminal-record condition | Yes as of 2026-08-26[7][8][9] The applicant files a certificate issued by the competent authority showing no judicial, criminal or police record in the country of origin and in any country of residence over the five years before arrival (Reglamento art. 88-A req. 4 and the parallel requirement in every other residence procedure), plus, where MIGRACIONES requires it, an Interpol Ficha de Canje (DL 1350 art. 26.2). Minors are exempt from the certificate on several procedures |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | 365 days as of 2023-11-14[1][8][9] Reglamento art. 88.4: "El plazo de otorgamiento y de permanencia es de trescientos sesenta y cinco (365) días, prorrogables"; DL 1350 art. 29.2 lit. h states the same 365 days |
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| How the initial term is set | fixed |
| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-08-26[8][9] Reglamento art. 88.5: the extension is granted for the same period. There is no stated ceiling on the number of extensions |
| Renewal duration | 365 days as of 2026-08-26[8][9] Reglamento art. 88.5: "El trámite de prórroga se aplica por el mismo plazo otorgado" |
| Work rights | full as of 2023-11-14[1][8][9] DL 1350 art. 29.2 lit. h and Reglamento art. 88.1 allow lucrative activity, subordinate or independent, in the public or private sector, under a contract of employment, an administrative relationship or a services contract. The grant is nevertheless tied to the contract the calidad was approved on: Reglamento art. 88-C states that the holder "solo puede realizar las actividades que le permita su calidad migratoria", and a change of employer means a fresh contract approved by the labour authority. `full` records that both employed and self-employed work are open, not that the holder is free of the contract |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Yes as of 2024-11-27[4][6][8] Reglamento art. 65.4 (as amended by DS 002-2021-IN) lists the calidades whose holders may change to permanente — religioso, inversionista, trabajador, investigación, familiar de residente, consular, diplomático, oficial and familiar oficial — and this one is among them. DL 1350 art. 29.2 lit. o sets the condition: three years as a legal resident. The TUPA procedure is 'Cambio de Calidad Migratoria Permanente Residente' |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2026-08-26[7][8][9] Reglamento art. 88.3 lit. a and the TUPA requirement list: a contract in the public or private sector, approved by the labour authority, stating a term of one year or more. A contract with a probation period, or a term under one year, is evaluated as a trabajador temporal application instead (Reglamento art. 88-A lit. d) |
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| Labour-market test | No as of 2026-08-26[2][3] There is no labour-market test. DL 689 art. 7: the application carries a sworn statement that the worker is within the art. 4 percentage limits, and "El contrato se considerará aprobado a la presentación de la solicitud", without prejudice to an inspection visit the labour authority may order. What DL 689 imposes is a proportional ceiling per employer (recorded under process.quota), not a test of whether a national could fill the post |
| Qualification requirement | degree, equivalent experience as of 2026-08-26[2][3] DL 689 art. 8 lit. c requires the contract-approval file to carry "El título profesional o los certificados correspondientes, debidamente legalizados por las autoridades competentes" — the professional qualification or the corresponding certificates. The statute does not define the certificates further, so both limbs are recorded. The condition sits in the labour-contract approval stage, not in the MIGRACIONES procedure, whose requirement list does not ask for a qualification |
| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2026-08-26[8][9] The employer is a party throughout: it obtains the contract approval, it must be active and habido before SUNAT, and its legal representative signs a sworn declaration filed with the migration application |
| Job-search route | No as of 2023-11-14[1][8][9] This is not a job-search route: the calidad is granted on an approved contract that already exists |
Process
| Where to apply from | either as of 2021-03-24[4][8][9] Reglamento art. 88-A is the application made from abroad, with the visa authorised at the Peruvian consulate; art. 88-B is the change of calidad migratoria, which Reglamento art. 65.3 allows only from inside the country |
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| Statutory processing time | 30 days as of 2026-08-26[7][9] 30 días hábiles (working days) for both the application from abroad and the in-country change; the extension procedure runs on 5 working days. Negative administrative silence applies to all three, so no answer within the period is a refusal open to appeal |
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Physical presence
| maximum consecutive absence | 183 days · to keep the permit as of 2021-03-24[4][8] Reglamento art. 63 lit. a (as amended by DS 002-2021-IN): a holder of a residence calidad migratoria loses it by being absent from Peru, without an authorisation to stay abroad, for more than 183 consecutive days within a 365-day period counted from the first departure during the residence granted. An authorisation to stay abroad (Reglamento art. 67.2) suspends the count |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Yes as of 2023-11-14[1][8][9] Family members do not ride on this permit: they apply for the separate familiar de residente calidad migratoria (Reglamento art. 89), which is open to the migratory family unit of any foreign national holding regular residence. DL 1350 art. 38 defines that unit as the spouse or the partner in a unión de hecho under the Civil Code; the couple's minor child; the couple's unmarried adult child up to 28 while in technical or higher education; the couple's unmarried adult child unable to support themselves through proven physical or mental disability; the minor child of one spouse or partner; that child as an adult where the same disability applies; and an ascendant of the couple. 'parent' in eligible_relations carries that ascendant limb, which is wider than a parent (grandparent is not separately named and is not asserted here) |
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| Eligible relations | spouse, unmarried partner, minor child, adult dependent child, parent, grandparent as of 2023-11-14[1][8] DL 1350 art. 38 lit. a–g, as amended by DL 1582 |
| Family may apply at the same time | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-08-26[8][9] Neither the Reglamento nor the TUPA states whether a familiar de residente application may be filed together with the principal's, or only after the principal holds residence. Reglamento art. 89.1 requires a proven family link with a foreign national already resident, which points at 'after', but the instruments do not say so and it is not asserted here |
| Family members' work rights | full as of 2023-11-14[1][4][8] Reglamento art. 89.5: the familiar de residente calidad allows the holder to enter and stay and to carry out lucrative activity, employed or self-employed; DL 1350 art. 29.2 lit. k says the same |
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Verification
| Sources cited | 9 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 9 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2021-03-24 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-26 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-26 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Decreto Legislativo 1582, que modifica el Decreto Legislativo 1350, Decreto Legislativo de Migraciones (texto de los artículos modificados, incl. art. 29 – tipos de calidades migratorias – y art. 38 – unidad migratoria familiar)
Diario Oficial El Peruano / Poder Ejecutivo · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2023-11-14 · Accessed 2026-08-26 · Archived copy - [2] Decreto Legislativo 689, Ley para la contratación de trabajadores extranjeros (dado el 4 de noviembre de 1991; art. 5 sustituido por la Ley 26196). Copia publicada por el Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo en gob.pe
Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo (MTPE) · statute · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-26 · Archived copy - [3] Decreto Legislativo 689, Ley para la contratación de trabajadores extranjeros — copia del Centro de Documentación del Congreso de la República, con concordancias y notas de modificación (Ley 26196, Decreto Supremo 014-92-TR reglamento)
Congreso de la República del Perú · statute · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-26 · Archived copy - [4] Decreto Supremo 002-2021-IN, que modifica el Reglamento del Decreto Legislativo 1350 (arts. 12, 31-34, 43, 47, 51, 56, 58, 63, 64, 65, 67, 75, 87, 88, 156, 190; incorpora arts. 86-A, 86-B, 92-A, 92-B) y el Reglamento de la Ley 26574, Ley de Nacionalidad
Diario Oficial El Peruano / Ministerio del Interior · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2021-03-24 · Accessed 2026-08-26 · Archived copy - [5] Solicitar la aprobación del contrato de trabajo de personal extranjero — ficha del trámite, competencia de los gobiernos regionales; la constancia de aprobación tiene vigencia indeterminada
Plataforma del Estado Peruano (gob.pe) — Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo / gobiernos regionales · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2023-03-20 · Accessed 2026-08-26 · Archived copy - [6] Cambiar calidad migratoria residente – Solicitar cambio a calidad migratoria permanente residente
Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones (MIGRACIONES) / Plataforma del Estado Peruano · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2024-11-27 · Accessed 2026-08-26 · Archived copy - [7] Solicitar calidad migratoria para trabajador residente — ficha del procedimiento en la sede digital de MIGRACIONES
Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones (MIGRACIONES), via gob.pe · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2024-06-17 · Accessed 2026-08-26 · Archived copy - [8] MIGRACIONES: Ley y Reglamento — Decreto Legislativo 1130, Decreto Legislativo 1350 y el Reglamento aprobado por Decreto Supremo 007-2017-IN, texto consolidado con notas de modificación al pie (primera edición, junio 2023; incorpora las modificaciones del Decreto Supremo 002-2021-IN, del Decreto Supremo 003-2023-IN y del Decreto Supremo 004-2023-IN). Publicación oficial de la autoridad administradora; no lleva fecha de publicación en el diario oficial, por lo que el as_of de los valores que la citan es la fecha de acceso
Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones (MIGRACIONES) · statute · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-26 · Archived copy - [9] Texto Único de Procedimientos Administrativos de la Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones (TUPA 2023, modificado por Resolución de Superintendencia 150-2025-MIGRACIONES) – 286 pp., 53 procedimientos y los servicios prestados en exclusividad
Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones (MIGRACIONES) · fee schedule · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-26 · Archived copy