Temporary residence permit for work in research, higher and tertiary education
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Dovoljenje za začasno prebivanje zaradi opravljanja dela na področju raziskav, višjega in visokega šolstva as of 2026-08-25[4][8] The Ministry's published page heading, which is also the wording the fourth sentence of article 47(1) uses for this permit as replaced by article 29 of ZTuj-2I, so the two coincide. |
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| Official name (English) | Temporary residence permit for work in research, higher and tertiary education as of 2026-08-25[4] Translation; no official English name is published. |
| Legal basis | Zakon o tujcih (ZTuj-2), 38. člen; general conditions in the third odstavek of 33. člen as of 2026-08-25[4] |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-08-25[4] A temporary residence permit rather than a single permit: the Ministry states that the holder may do research work but cannot enter an employment relationship on it, and must apply for a single permit for residence and work to do so. |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA as of 2026-08-25[1][3] |
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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[4] A home-state criminal-record certificate is listed among the general conditions. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | up to 2 years as of 2026-08-25[4] Issued for two years, or for the period of the work under the hosting agreement where that is shorter. |
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| How the initial term is set | matches the assignment |
| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-08-25[4] May be extended more than once. |
| Renewal duration | up to 2 years as of 2026-08-25[4] Extensions of up to two years each, repeatable. |
| Work rights | own activity only as of 2026-08-25[4] Research work only. The Ministry states it in terms: on this permit the holder may do the work of a researcher but cannot conclude an employment relationship, and would need a single permit for residence and work to do so. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Not established from a qualifying source Not established; the Ministry's permanent-residence page does not enumerate which temporary permits count in full. |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2026-08-25[4] A hosting agreement (sporazum o gostovanju) concluded with a Slovenian research organisation, higher-education or post-secondary institution. This is the route's only special condition. |
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| Labour-market test | No as of 2026-08-25[4] No Employment Service consent step appears anywhere in the Ministry's enumeration of this permit's procedure, so no labour-market test is applied. Sourced absence. |
| Qualification requirement | Recorded at the source, but not reducible to a single value |
| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2026-08-25[4] The hosting research organisation is the sponsor and the agreement is the instrument. |
| Own means requirement | 1 × basic amount of minimum income per month as of 2026-08-25[4] 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. |
| Paid in-country | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. The permit does not permit an employment relationship, and the Ministry does not say whether the hosting agreement must be remunerated by the Slovenian host or may rest on funding from abroad. |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-08-25[4] The researcher's job-search permit is a separate permit under article 38.č and is recorded separately as si-dovoljenje-raziskovalec-iskanje-zaposlitve. |
Process
| Where to apply from | either as of 2026-08-25[4] |
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| Statutory processing time | Recorded at the source, but not reducible to a single value |
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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[2][4][8] Article 47(1) of ZTuj-2 recognises the right to family reunification for holders of a temporary residence permit; seasonal workers and daily cross-border migrants are excluded by the same paragraph. |
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| Eligible relations | spouse, registered partner, unmarried partner, minor child, adult dependent child, parent as of 2026-08-25[5][7] 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 | Yes as of 2026-08-25[2][4][8] The fourth sentence of article 47(1) of ZTuj-2, as replaced by article 29 of ZTuj-2I, names this permit's holder among those who may reunite family members with no limit tied to the length of their residence in Slovenia or to the validity of their permit. The Ministry's family-member page adds that the researcher's application and the family member's application are decided together where they are filed together, and that a family member of a researcher on a SHORT-term transfer (type C) neither needs nor is issued such a permit. |
| 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. |
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Verification
| Sources cited | 8 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 8 |
| 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 začasno prebivanje družinskega člana raziskovalca
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2026-08-12 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [3] 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 - [4] Dovoljenje za začasno prebivanje zaradi opravljanja dela na področju raziskav, višjega in visokega šolstva
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2026-08-12 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [5] 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 - [6] 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 - [7] 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 - [8] Zakon o spremembah in dopolnitvah Zakona o tujcih (ZTuj-2I)
Državni zbor Republike Slovenije / Uradni list Republike Slovenije · gazette · Tier 1 · Published 2025-05-06 · Accessed 2026-08-25