To be granted a temporary residence permit for the purpose of employment requires a lot of administrative actions and steps to be taken from hiring a foreigner to be employed in Slovakia up to his/her start in the new job. There are many legal duties to be met by the employer who wants to employ a foreigner from non-EU countries. The vacancy needs to be reported electronically via www.sluzbyzamestnanosti.gov.sk portal by the employer at least 20 workdays before the temporary residence application for a foreigner is filed. If the vacancy remains available future employer can issue a “Promise to employ the citizen from a third country” and ask the respective Labour Office to issue a “Confirmation on the possibility to fill in a vacancy”. Only after the respective Labour Office has issued the employer with a confirmation on the possibility to fill in a vacancy, a foreigner may apply for a temporary residence permit in the Slovak Republic for the purpose of employment.
If the application for temporary residence is submitted in full and this is indicated on the confirmation of receipt of the application for temporary residence, the employer may employ a foreigner from the date as indicated on the issued confirmation on the possibility to fill in a vacancy, even without the granting of temporary residence.
It is advisable to provide legal assistance to both the future employer and the potential employee in parallel, with the aim to ensure the required quality of necessary documents that would facilitate smooth and seamless residence proceedings.