Apply for a work permit

Conditions

• The sports association is within the Icelandic Olympic and Sports Association.

• The person to be hired has an employment contract with a sports club to play or train a certain sport with the club.

• The sports club pays for the return of the individual after the period of service is completed in certain cases.

Duration

A work permit for athletes granted for the first time is granted for no more than one year, but never longer than the period of employment under the employment contract. Generally, players' work permits are granted for the current season. Work permits for athletes can be extended for up to two years. With an application for an extension of a temporary work permit for athletes, the same documents must be submitted as with a new application.

When processing an application, the institution can check how the settlement of salaries and tax payments as well as insurance premiums have been carried out legally for other licensees who have worked for the company.

Submit an application

The application is submitted to Directorate of Immigration

• Information on processing fee.

• Information on application and supporting documents.

Extension of the work permit

With an application for an extension of the work permit for athletes, all the same conditions must be fulfilled as when the permit was granted for the first time. Reference is made to the above conditions.

Furthermore, the sports club must have paid the tax as well as the insurance premium for the work of the foreigner and other licensees who work for the club.

A foreigner is generally allowed to work while an application for an extension of a permit with the same sports club is being processed. However, it is a condition that an application for an extension be submitted to the Directorate of Immigration at least four weeks before the previous permit expires.

On loan to another sports club

A work permit is bound to the employer for whom it is issued and the permit does not transfer between employers.

If a player goes to work for a new employer, both a new work permit for the player and salary payments must be submitted to the new employer.

When can a player start working

A foreigner may not start working for a sports club until a work permit has been granted.