Single permit for posted workers
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Enotno dovoljenje za napotene delavce as of 2026-08-25[4] The Ministry's published page heading; article 45 was not read, so no statutory name is asserted. |
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| Official name (English) | Single permit for posted workers as of 2026-08-25[4] Translation; no official English name is published. |
| Legal basis | Zakon o tujcih (ZTuj-2), 45. člen; Zakon o zaposlovanju, samozaposlovanju in delu tujcev (ZZSDT) as of 2026-08-25[4] |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-08-25[4] |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA as of 2026-08-25[2][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 1 year as of 2026-08-25[4] Issued for the duration of the work fixed in the service contract, or for the duration of the training programme, but for not more than one year. |
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| How the initial term is set | matches the assignment |
| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-08-25[4] Extended where the contract work or the training programme cannot be completed within the period foreseen, for justified reasons. No extension ceiling is published. |
| Renewal duration | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. The Ministry states that an extension is possible for justified reasons and names no maximum. |
| Work rights | own activity only as of 2026-08-25[4] Work under the posting only. The Employment Service adds a separate ceiling that applies to the consent rather than to the permit: for cross-border services the total performance of the service may not exceed 90 days in a calendar year. |
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. |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2026-08-25[4] A service contract with the recipient of the service is required, together with proof that the posted workers have been employed by the foreign employer for at least nine months. |
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| Labour-market test | No as of 2026-08-25[1][4] Neither enumeration lists the unemployment-register condition for this consent type, unlike the employment, Blue Card and seasonal pages. Sourced absence. |
| Qualification requirement | none as of 2026-08-25[1] The Employment Service states no qualification condition for cross-border services; what it requires is nine months' continuous prior employment with the foreign employer. Training in affiliated companies requires no prior employment at all. |
| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2026-08-25[1][4] The foreign employer must be registered, must provide social-insurance cover from the posting state including health cover, and must give an accommodation declaration. The service recipient must be from an EU member state, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Switzerland. |
| 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 | No as of 2026-08-25[4] The worker stays employed by and insured through the foreign employer. |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-08-25[4] |
Process
| Where to apply from | either as of 2026-08-25[4] |
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| Statutory processing time | Not established from a qualifying source Not established for the permit; the Employment Service's 15-day period applies to its consent. |
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Physical presence
| registration only | to keep the permit as of 2026-08-25[2] 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[5][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[5][8] |
| 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 | 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] Enotno dovoljenje za čezmejne storitve z napotenimi delavci
Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [2] 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 - [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] Enotno dovoljenje za napotene delavce
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