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Temporary Residence for Foreign Cultural or Educational Experts

Bosnia and HerzegovinaWork

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What type of worker, employment situation, occupation or professional activity is this pathway actually designed for?

This route covers an expert, teacher or lecturer from a foreign cultural or educational institution who performs professional work within a cultural and educational cooperation project.

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  • No consolidated 2026 law text or independent review was obtained.
  • No independent literal or legal review has been performed.
  • Law on Foreigners 88/15, Article 77(2)(b)
    stručnjaci, nastavnici i predavači stranih kulturnih i obrazovnih institucija, koji u BiH obavljaju svoj stručni posao u okviru projekta kulturne i obrazovne saradnje

Does the applicant need a job offer, employer, sponsor, transfer relationship or other employer involvement? What is important about that employer relationship?

The applicant needs a foreign cultural or educational institution and a cooperation programme. The SFA form asks for evidence of the programme, the person’s engagement and its period, and a host undertaking for the stay costs.

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Limits of the record
  • The form does not set a separate salary or investment requirement.
  • No independent literal or legal review has been performed.

What are the few decisive professional characteristics of the pathway: occupation, qualifications, experience, salary, skill level, shortage status, labour-market condition or equivalent?

The distinctive professional fit is expert, teacher or lecturer status with a foreign cultural or educational institution and expert work within the cooperation project; the consulted provisions state no salary or degree threshold.

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Limits of the record
  • No salary or investment amount is supplied by the route sources.
  • No independent literal or legal review has been performed.

What work does the permission allow? Is the holder tied to an employer, occupation or sector? Can family accompany where clearly established?

The qualifying person may work without a work permit. For someone already staying on a visa, visa-free basis or temporary residence, the law requires a prior work-registration certificate; an applicant granted temporary residence under Article 71(d) does not receive one. The sources do not state a family rule.

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  • Accompanying-family treatment is not established by the consulted route materials.
  • No independent literal or legal review has been performed.

How long is the permission normally granted for, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction exists if officially stated?

Temporary residence is generally granted for up to one year and can be extended on the same basis. Time on the Article 77 no-work-permit residence basis is excluded from the general permanent-residence period.

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Limits of the record
  • The captured texts do not establish permanent-residence eligibility after this excluded basis.
  • No independent literal or legal review has been performed.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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