Single permit for a traineeship
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Enotno dovoljenje zaradi opravljanja pripravništva as of 2026-08-25[3] The Ministry's published page heading. |
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| Official name (English) | Single permit for a traineeship as of 2026-08-25[3] Translation; no official English name is published. |
| Legal basis | Zakon o tujcih (ZTuj-2), 44.d člen; Zakon o zaposlovanju, samozaposlovanju in delu tujcev (ZZSDT) as of 2026-08-25[3] The Ministry's own citation. Article 44.d sits in the study chapter of the Act but the permit is a single permit for residence and work, which is why it is recorded in the work family and not the study family – a deliberate placement. |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-08-25[3] |
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 home-state criminal-record certificate is listed among the general conditions. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | up to 1 year as of 2026-08-25[3] Issued for the period of the traineeship, but for not more than one year. |
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| How the initial term is set | length of the programme |
| Renewable | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. The Ministry's page states the one-year term and says nothing about extension either way. |
| Work rights | own activity only as of 2026-08-25[3] Work under the traineeship programme. The trainee may serve one or more employers; two or more require a tripartite agreement and a consent for the additional employer. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2026-08-25[3] An employment or civil-law contract for the traineeship signed by the employer, plus the traineeship programme itself, must be attached. |
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| Labour-market test | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. The Ministry states that the administrative unit obtains the Employment Service's consent to the employment, and the Employment Service publishes no separate consent page for traineeships, so whether the unemployment-register condition is applied to this consent type could not be read off any enumeration. |
| Qualification requirement | degree as of 2026-08-25[3] Proof of education at at least level 6 of the Slovenian qualifications framework (SOK), obtained in the two years before the application, or proof of enrolment in a study programme leading to it. |
| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2026-08-25[3] The employer signs the contract, gives an accommodation declaration, and the traineeship programme needs a positive opinion of the competent trade association, chamber or ministry unless that body organises the training itself. |
| 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. |
| Paid in-country | Yes as of 2026-08-25[3] |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-08-25[3] |
Process
| Where to apply from | either as of 2026-08-25[3] |
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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[4][7] 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[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 | No as of 2026-08-25[4][7] Article 47(1) of ZTuj-2 conditions reunification on a year of prior residence on a permit valid for at least a year. The fourth sentence of article 47(1), as replaced by article 29 of ZTuj-2I, lists the holders exempt from that limit – EU Blue Card holders, research and higher-education permit holders, holders under article 38.b, intra-corporate transferees under articles 45.b and 45.d, holders whose residence is in the interest of Slovenia, digital nomads, persons of Slovenian descent under article 48, and former beneficiaries of temporary protection. This route is not among them. |
| 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 | 7 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 7 |
| 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] Enotno dovoljenje zaradi opravljanja pripravništva
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 - [7] 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