Single permit for residence and work
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Enotno dovoljenje za prebivanje in delo as of 2026-08-25[3][5] The name used by both the Ministry of the Interior and the Employment Service. Article 37(1) of ZTuj-2 gives the permit this name in terms, so the statutory name and the published page heading coincide here. |
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| Official name (English) | Single permit for residence and work as of 2026-08-25[4] Translation. GOV.SI's English pages describe the single permit but publish no official English name for it. |
| Legal basis | Zakon o tujcih (ZTuj-2), uradno prečiščeno besedilo ZTuj-2-UPB15 (Uradni list RS, št. 46/25), 37. in 37.a člen, read with the third paragraph of 33. člen; Zakon o zaposlovanju, samozaposlovanju in delu tujcev (ZZSDT), 17. člen as of 2026-08-25[1][5][10] |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-08-25[5] A single document authorising both residence and work, issued by the administrative unit as a card (izkaznica). The Employment Service's soglasje is an input to it, not a separate permit. |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA as of 2026-08-25[4][6] |
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| Minimum age | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. Neither the Ministry's page nor the Employment Service's consent pages state an age condition. |
| Criminal-record condition | Yes as of 2026-08-25[5] |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | up to 2 years as of 2026-08-25[3][5] Issued for the validity of the employment contract or the contract for work, but for not more than two years. Both the Ministry and the Employment Service state the two-year ceiling. |
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| How the initial term is set | matches the contract |
| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-08-25[3][5] |
| Renewal duration | up to 3 years as of 2026-08-25[3][5] Extended for the contract term but for not more than three years. |
| Work rights | employment only as of 2026-08-25[2][5] The permit authorises residence and work in employment with a named employer. Changing the post with the same employer, changing employer, or adding a second employer each require a fresh soglasje za zamenjavo from the Employment Service before the change. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Yes as of 2026-08-25[7] Time on a temporary residence permit counts in full towards the five years of continuous lawful residence that article 52 of ZTuj-2 requires for a permanent residence permit. The half-weight rule the Ministry publishes applies to study permits only. |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2026-08-25[2][5] An employment contract or a contract for work signed by the employer must be attached to the application, and the Employment Service's consent is given against that contract. |
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| Labour-market test | Yes as of 2026-08-25[2] The first condition for consent is that no suitable person is registered as unemployed. The employer runs the check by filing a PDM-KTD notification of the vacancy through the employers' portal; the Employment Service replies within five working days. |
| Qualification requirement | Recorded at the source, but not reducible to a single value |
| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2026-08-25[2] The employer must be registered and actively operating, must not be in liquidation or bankruptcy, and must have all tax obligations settled. Active operation is proved by one full-time employee insured for at least six months before filing, or by the individual having been insured for at least six months, or by inflows of at least EUR 10,000 in each of the last six months into a transaction account opened in Slovenia. An employer registered less than six months before filing must have invested at least EUR 50,000 in the activity. |
| Own means requirement | 1 × basic amount of minimum income per month as of 2026-08-25[5][10] 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 carried by every temporary residence permit in the Act and the Ministry's page for this permit repeats it; it is not a condition special to this route. |
| Paid in-country | Yes as of 2026-08-25[2] The permit rests on an employment or work contract with an employer established in Slovenia, and the worker must be registered in compulsory social insurance in Slovenia within 30 days of service of the consent. |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-08-25[5] This is an employment permit issued against a signed contract, not a permit to look for work. Slovenia's two job-search permits are recorded separately. |
Process
| Where to apply from | either as of 2026-08-25[4][10] Article 34(3) of ZTuj-2 allows the first application at a Slovenian diplomatic mission or consular post abroad, or at the competent authority in Slovenia where the foreigner is lawfully resident there. The employer may also file. |
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| Statutory processing time | Not established from a qualifying source Not established for the permit. The 15-day period the Employment Service publishes is the period for its own consent, not for the administrative unit's decision on the single permit, and no statutory decision period for the permit was reached. |
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Physical presence
| registration only | to keep the permit as of 2026-08-25[4] A foreigner issued a temporary residence permit must register their temporary residence with the administrative unit within eight days of entering the country, of being served the document, or of taking up residence. No minimum day count in Slovenia was found as a condition of keeping any permit; the day counts that exist attach to permanent residence and are recorded on the country block. |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Yes as of 2026-08-25[8][11] 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[8][10] Article 47(3) of ZTuj-2 defines family members as the spouse, the partner in a registered or civil partnership or a partner with whom the foreigner lives 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 the foreigner or the spouse or partner is obliged to support under the law of their state of nationality. |
| Family may apply at the same time | No as of 2026-08-25[8][11] Article 47(1) of ZTuj-2 conditions reunification on the sponsor having resided in Slovenia for the last year on a temporary residence permit issued with a validity of at least one year. The fourth sentence of article 47(1), as replaced by article 29 of ZTuj-2I, lists the holders who may reunite family members with no such limit: EU Blue Card holders, holders of a permit for work in research and higher education, 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, so the one-year wait applies. |
| Family members' work rights | Not established from a qualifying source Not free access. A holder of a family-member residence 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 own free-access list does not include family members of an ordinary permit holder. Free access does exist for family members reuniting with a Slovenian citizen, which is a different route and is recorded separately. |
Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 11 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 11 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2026-08-25 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-25 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-26 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
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Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [3] Zaposlovanje tujcev iz tretjih držav
Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [4] Entry and residence
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Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo (SPOT) · fee schedule · Tier 1 · Published 2024-03-27 · Accessed 2026-08-25 · Archived copy - [10] Zakon o tujcih (uradno prečiščeno besedilo) (ZTuj-2-UPB15)
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Državni zbor Republike Slovenije / Uradni list Republike Slovenije · gazette · Tier 1 · Published 2025-05-06 · Accessed 2026-08-25