Temporary worker status
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Trabajador Temporal as of 2023-11-14[1][6][7] DL 1350 art. 29.1 lit. f names the calidad "Trabajador/Designado Temporal", a single lettered category covering two situations; Reglamento art. 75 carries the same combined heading and separates them in 75.1 (trabajador temporal) and 75.4 (designado temporal). The TUPA runs them as separate procedures under the separate names recorded here and on the sibling route pe-designado-temporal |
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| Official name (English) | Temporary worker status as of 2026-08-26[7] Translation. MIGRACIONES publishes no official English name |
| Legal basis | Decreto Legislativo 1350 art. 29.1 lit. f (as amended by Decreto Legislativo 1582); Reglamento aprobado por Decreto Supremo 007-2017-IN arts. 75.1 to 75.3 and 75.5 to 75.7 (as amended by Decreto Supremo 002-2021-IN), 75-A (application from abroad), 75-C (change of status in-country) and 75-E (extension of stay); Decreto Legislativo 689 as of 2023-11-14[1][4][6][7] |
| Instrument type | national visa as of 2026-08-26[6][7] A temporary calidad migratoria: MIGRACIONES approves it and notifies the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which authorises the visa. It carries no carné de extranjería — that document belongs to residence calidades — and the TUPA charges no card fee on these procedures |
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 |
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| Minimum age | Not applicable as of 2023-11-14[1][6][7] No minimum age condition appears in DL 1350 art. 29.1 lit. f, in Reglamento arts. 75 and 75-A, or in the published requirements |
| Criminal-record condition | Yes as of 2026-08-26[6][7] Every temporary-calidad procedure in the TUPA carries the same absence-of-record condition as the residence procedures: no police, criminal or judicial record in the country of origin or in any country of residence before entry. 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 | up to 183 days as of 2023-11-14[1][6][7] Reglamento art. 75.6: 183 consecutive days, or periods of days adding up to 183 within a year counted from first entry into Peruvian territory. DL 1350 art. 29.1 lit. f states the same 183 days accumulable across a 365-day period. Recorded with bound `maximum` because the article frames it as a ceiling on stay within a window rather than a fixed grant |
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| How the initial term is set | matches the contract |
| Renewable | Yes as of 2023-11-14[1][6][7] Reglamento art. 75.7: an extension may be requested and is granted for the same period; the TUPA procedure is "Prórroga de Permanencia Trabajador Temporal" |
| Renewal duration | up to 183 days as of 2026-08-26[6][7] Reglamento art. 75.7: the same period |
| Work rights | full as of 2023-11-14[1][4][6] This permit lets you work for the employer whose contract it was granted on. It does not let you take on other paid work in Peru on the side. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2026-08-26[6][7] Reglamento art. 75.5: the applicant must be an employed or self-employed worker in the public or private sector under one of the regimes in the labour legislation, and the contracting entity must hold a RUC in active and habido condition. The TUPA file carries the approved contract. A contract of one year or more, without a probation period, is instead evaluated as a trabajador *residente* application (Reglamento art. 88-A lit. d), so this route is in practice the short-contract one |
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| Labour-market test | No as of 2026-08-26[2][3] DL 689 art. 7: the contract is treated as approved on filing, subject to a possible inspection visit; there is no test of national availability |
| Qualification requirement | degree, equivalent experience as of 2026-08-26[2][3] DL 689 art. 8 lit. c: the contract-approval file carries the professional title or the corresponding certificates, duly legalised. The condition sits in the labour-contract approval stage, not in the MIGRACIONES procedure |
| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2026-08-26[6][7] The contracting entity obtains the contract approval and must be active and habido before SUNAT |
| Job-search route | No as of 2023-11-14[1][6] Not a job-search route |
Process
| Where to apply from | either as of 2021-03-24[4][6][7] Reglamento art. 75-A is the application from abroad; art. 75-C is the in-country change of calidad |
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| Statutory processing time | 30 days as of 2026-08-26[7] 30 días hábiles (working days) for the application and the change, negative administrative silence; the extension of stay runs on 5 working days |
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Physical presence
| none stated | to keep the permit as of 2021-03-24[4][6] Reglamento art. 63 states the absence rule only for holders of a residence calidad migratoria ("si cuenta con calidad migratoria de residente"). This is a temporary calidad, so no absence rule attaches to it; what limits the stay is the permitted period itself. |
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Verification
| Sources cited | 7 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 7 |
| 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] 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 - [7] 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