If you are an EU/EEA/Swiss national you can be employed in the territory of the Slovak Republic on the same terms as Slovak nationals. Job applicants must meet the employer’s requirements (e.g. education level, language skills, required work experience, etc.) For information related to the employment, all mobile workers from the EU/EEA/Switzerland can consult the website of EURES (European Information Services – information network facilitating mobility of workers within the Member States of the European Union and the European Free Trade Association).

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If you are a third country national and you have a temporary residence for the purpose of study, you can work as follows:

• as a university student: 80 hours per month
• as a high school student: 40 hours per month

You can work under an employment/work contract or under agreements performed outside the employment relationship.

You can also start a business without the obligation to change your the purpose of your residence permit.

You can apply for change in the purpose of residence at the Foreign Police in Slovakia only if:

• you successfully passed the final exam or graduation exam at a secondary/high school in Slovakia,
• or obtained first-, second- or third-level university education.

Otherwise, if you want to pursue another activity in Slovakia, you will have to submit your application for a different purpose of residence at a Slovak Embassy/Consulate abroad. 

If you are a student of language or vocational training for university studies, you cannot change the purpose of your residence in Slovakia.

If you decide to interrupt or leave your studies (without successful completion) or if you are expelled, you stop to be a student and the purpose for which your temporary residence was granted stops to exist. The Foreign Police can start cancelling your residence permit as soon as they become aware of the loss of purpose. 

If you do not have a job immediately after graduating from university, you can extend your residence for nine months to look for a job. As a graduate you have free access to the labour market, which means that you do not need any other permit to work apart from a valid temporary residence.

For more information about what you need to know as a student with temporary residence in Slovakia, please check the brochure of IOM Slovakia.