Temporary residence permit for a researcher to seek employment or self-employment
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Dovoljenje za začasno prebivanje raziskovalca zaradi iskanja zaposlitve ali samozaposlitve as of 2026-08-25[3] The Ministry's published page heading. |
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| Official name (English) | Temporary residence permit for a researcher to seek employment or self-employment as of 2026-08-25[3] Translation; no official English name is published. |
| Legal basis | Zakon o tujcih (ZTuj-2), 38.č člen, with the special conditions of 44.b člen applied to it as of 2026-08-25[3] |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-08-25[3] The card records the permit type as 'iskalec zaposlitve'. |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA as of 2026-08-25[1][2] |
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| Minimum age | Not established from a qualifying source Not established; no age condition is stated. |
| Criminal-record condition | Yes as of 2026-08-25[3] A potrdilo o nekaznovanju from the home state is listed among the documents. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | 9 months as of 2026-08-25[3] The Ministry states a flat figure rather than a ceiling: the permit issued by the administrative unit will have a validity of nine months. |
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| How the initial term is set | fixed |
| Renewable | No as of 2026-08-25[3] Limited to at most nine months and cannot be extended. If employment or self-employment is found, a new permit of the appropriate purpose must be applied for before this one expires. |
| Work rights | none as of 2026-08-25[3] The Ministry states it in terms: on this permit you may not perform work, you may only look for it. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | No as of 2026-08-25[3] By definition: this is a permit to look for employment or to set up as self-employed. |
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| Labour-market test | No as of 2026-08-25[3] No Employment Service step appears in the procedure. |
| Qualification requirement | none as of 2026-08-25[3] No qualification condition of its own. What stands in its place is the eligibility gate: the applicant must already hold, or have held, a research permit under article 38 or a long-term-transfer research permit under article 38.b, and must produce the research organisation's proof that the research work in Slovenia has been completed. |
| Own means requirement | 1 × basic amount of minimum income per month as of 2026-08-25[3] Article 33(3) of ZTuj-2: a foreigner must have sufficient means of subsistence for the period of residence, monthly at least in the amount of the basic minimum income in the Republic of Slovenia. This is the general condition on every temporary residence permit in the Act and the Ministry's page for this permit repeats it without stating an amount of its own. |
| Job-search route | Yes as of 2026-08-25[3] |
Process
| Where to apply from | in-country only as of 2026-08-25[3] The permit presupposes a completed period of research work in Slovenia on an article 38 or 38.b permit, and the application is made in person at an administrative unit. |
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| Statutory processing time | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. |
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Physical presence
| registration only | to keep the permit as of 2026-08-25[1] Temporary residence must be registered with the administrative unit within eight days of entry, of service of the document, or of taking up residence. |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Yes as of 2026-08-25[3] Not a fresh reunification right but the continuation of an existing one: a family member of the researcher who already holds a valid family-member temporary residence permit may apply for an extension, which is granted for the same period as the researcher's own job-search permit. Whether a family member with no existing permit can be reunited on this permit is not stated. |
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| Eligible relations | spouse, registered partner, unmarried partner, minor child, adult dependent child, parent as of 2026-08-25[4][6] Article 47(3) of ZTuj-2 defines family members as the spouse, the partner in a registered or civil partnership or a partner in a long-lasting life community; the foreigner's minor unmarried children; the minor unmarried children of that spouse or partner; the parents of a minor foreigner with whom the foreigner lived in a family community before coming to Slovenia; and adult unmarried children and parents of the foreigner or of the spouse or partner whom they are obliged to support under the law of their state of nationality. |
| Family may apply at the same time | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. The Ministry describes only the extension of an existing family-member permit and says nothing about a first application filed alongside this one. |
| Family members' work rights | Not established from a qualifying source Not free access. A holder of a family-member permit who wants to work needs an informativni list obtained through an employer, which the Employment Service issues after a labour-market test; the Employment Service's free-access list does not include family members of an ordinary permit holder. |
Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 6 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 6 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2026-08-25 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-25 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-26 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Entry and residence
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo (GOV.SI) · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2026-06-12 · Accessed 2026-08-25 · Archived copy - [2] Dovoljenje za prebivanje na podlagi dela (kazalo)
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2026-01-15 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [3] Dovoljenje za začasno prebivanje raziskovalca zaradi iskanja zaposlitve ali samozaposlitve
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2026-08-12 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [4] Združitev družine in pravica do celovitosti družine
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2026-08-13 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [5] Enotna dovoljenja (eBDP) – Stroški
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo (SPOT) · fee schedule · Tier 1 · Published 2024-03-27 · Accessed 2026-08-25 · Archived copy - [6] Zakon o tujcih (uradno prečiščeno besedilo) (ZTuj-2-UPB15)
Uradni list Republike Slovenije · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2025-06-24 · Accessed 2026-08-25 · Archived copy