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Residence Permit B — Replacement Position

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

This is a Liechtenstein residence-permit route for filling a position that became vacant after the previous permit holder moved abroad, retired or died.

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  • Art. 21(1) PFZG
    Ist in einem Unternehmen eine Stelle von einer Person mit einer Aufenthalts-, Daueraufenthalts- oder Niederlassungsbewilligung besetzt und wird diese infolge ihrer Abmeldung ins Ausland, ihrer Pensionierung oder ihres Todes frei, so kann einer bewilligungspflichtigen Person zur Besetzung dieser Stelle eine Aufenthaltsbewilligung erteilt werden (Ersatzanstellung).

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

The route fills a specific vacated position with a new employee. The application for replacement employment must be filed within six months of the deregistration, retirement or death of the previous job-holder; if no application is filed in time, the number of permits to be awarded in the allocation or lottery increases. The previous job-holder may train the new employee for a period of one month if this is approved on application.

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  • The capture does not state who (employer or applicant) files the replacement-employment application.
  • https://www.gesetze.li/konso/pdf/2009348000?version=6
    2) Das Gesuch um Bewilligung einer Ersatzanstellung muss innert sechs Monaten seit Abmeldung, Pensionierung oder Tod des bisherigen Stellen- inhabers eingereicht werden. Wird innert Frist kein Gesuch eingereicht, erhöht sich die Anzahl der zu vergebenden Bewilligungen bei der Bewilligungsvergabe oder der Auslosung, je nachdem nach welchem Verfahren die ursprüngliche Bewilligung erteilt wurde.
  • https://www.gesetze.li/konso/pdf/2009348000?version=6
    3) Der bisherige Stelleninhaber kann den neuen Arbeitnehmer während einer Frist von einem Monat einarbeiten, sofern dies auf Gesuch hin bewilligt wird.

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

Permits can only be granted if the employee is hired for the position on wage and working conditions that are customary for the locality and occupation and that correspond to the labour-market situation. A replacement hire because of a temporary stay abroad of the previous permit-holding job-holder who was granted retention is not permitted.

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Limits of the record
  • The capture does not state whether the Art. 20 contract-length/workload conditions also apply to replacement hires.
  • No occupation, qualification or experience requirement is stated.

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

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the work allowed, any tie to employer or sector and family accompaniment.

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Limits of the record
  • Not established: the correction failed a second independent check (NAO_RESPONDE: 'Die Ersatzanstellung ist bewilligungspflichtig' means the replacement hire needs authorisation, which is a grant condition. It says nothing about what work the holder may do, the tie to employer/occupation/sector or family. R4 is effectively unanswered and should be not_found.)

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

The residence permit entitles a stay of up to five years where the intended stay lasts longer than one year. An extension is possible if there is no ground for revocation or expulsion. The official source does not state a longer-term residence direction.

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Limits of the record
  • The capture does not state a longer-term residence or settlement direction for this route.

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

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