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Luxembourg Company Transfer Residence

Luxembourg Residency
Pathway overview

At a glance

Luxembourg's intra-corporate transfer route is for managers, specialists, and trainee employees transferred within the same company group to Luxembourg.

Type
Intra-company transfer
Job fit
Managers, specialists, and trainee employees
Core requirements
Same company group and qualifying assignment
What to know
This is not an ordinary local-hire route
What it gives
A card normally valid for at least one year for a manager or specialist, with total residence under this transfer route limited to three years.
Main limit
This is not a route for a new local hire, an independent consultant, a transfer between unrelated companies or an open-ended assignment.

Summary

The intra-corporate transferee, or ICT, route lets a non-EU employee of an overseas company in a corporate group work temporarily at a Luxembourg entity in the same company or group. It covers managers, specialists and trainee employees.

The employee remains tied to the overseas undertaking and a defined temporary assignment. This is different from a permanent Luxembourg hire.

Pathway fit check

Eligibility

The worker must:

The Luxembourg host submits the detailed temporary-authorization application before the worker enters Luxembourg. Evidence should establish the group relationship, overseas employment, 3-month history, transfer role and duration, work and remuneration conditions, qualifications, social-security position, passport and background record.

After entry, the worker declares arrival within 3 days, completes the medical check and applies for the ICT residence card within 90 days. Guichet.lu lists an €80 card fee.

What This Route Allows

For a manager or specialist, the card is normally valid for at least one year, or for the shorter assignment, and total ICT residence cannot exceed 3 years. For a trainee, it covers the transfer but cannot exceed a total of one year. Renewal is possible only within those overall caps.

A spouse or partner and unmarried minor children may seek family reunification. A person holding an ICT permit from another EU Member State may also have short- or long-term mobility rights for work at a Luxembourg entity in the same group; notification or a Luxembourg mobility application is still required.

What This Route Is Not

This is not a route for a new local hire, an independent consultant, a transfer between unrelated companies or an open-ended assignment. It is also different from ordinary posted-worker rules, which concern a time-limited service contract rather than the EU ICT framework.

The Luxembourg long-term resident rules exclude a person while admitted as an intra-corporate transferee, so the route should not be presented as a direct settlement path. Reaching the time cap requires departure or a separately available status; conversion is not automatic.

Next Steps

  1. Confirm that the overseas employer and Luxembourg host are in the same company or group.
  2. Classify the role as manager, specialist or trainee and check its maximum duration.
  3. Assemble proof of the uninterrupted 3-month employment history, group relationship, qualifications and assignment terms.
  4. Have the Luxembourg host file the authorization before travel.
  5. Complete the commune, medical and residence-card steps after arrival.
  6. If the assignment spans several EU countries, map which country is the principal stay before choosing the ICT mobility procedure.
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