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Intra-Corporate Transferee Permit

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

The route is for someone who works for a company established outside the EU and is being transferred to a branch in Lithuania, as a manager, a specialist or a trainee. The definitions and admission conditions are governed by the EU Directive on intra-corporate transfer (Articles 3 and 5 of Directive 2014/66/EU), and a person meeting them is issued an intra-corporate transferee permit.

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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 an intra-corporate transfer relationship: employment by the same undertaking or group abroad, and a Lithuanian host entity that submits a mediation letter and may itself file the residence-permit application. Before transfer, the applicant must have already worked for the company for 6 months (manager or specialist) or 3 months (trainee).

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

Three sub-categories exist (manager, specialist and trainee), each with its own additional evidence requirements (e.g. proof of managerial position and experience for managers; proof of specialist qualifications and experience for specialists; a training agreement, university degree proof and remuneration evidence for trainees), on top of the shared prior-employment threshold for that category.

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  • home-affairs.ec.europa.eu, ICT in Lithuania, Conditions
    Please note that before being transferred from a company branch located outside of the EU to a branch in Lithuania you must have been employed by that company for a certain time period: if you are a manager for 6 months; a specialist for 6 months; a trainee for 3 months.
  • home-affairs.ec.europa.eu, ICT in Lithuania, Documents required
    If you apply for a residence permit as a manager, you must additionally submit: evidence that you are taking a position as a manager in the host entity or its structural unit; evidence that you have the professional qualifications and experience needed in the host entity to which you are transferred as manager;
  • home-affairs.ec.europa.eu, ICT in Lithuania, Documents required
    If you apply for a residence permit as a specialist, you must additionally submit: evidence that you have the professional qualifications and experience needed in the host entity to which you are transferred as specialist;
  • home-affairs.ec.europa.eu, ICT in Lithuania, Documents required
    If you apply for a residence permit as a trainee, you must additionally submit: a training agreement; evidence that you have a university degree; evidence that you will get the remuneration;

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

On the basis of an ICT permit issued in one EU country, the holder can, under certain conditions, work in other EU countries if the entity belongs to the same company (short-term mobility under 90 days in 180 days; long-term mobility beyond that). If the conditions for the permit change and the holder is no longer eligible, the permit is revoked and the holder must leave. Family members (spouse, registered partner, unmarried and dependent minor children, and dependent parents retained for at least 1 year who cannot benefit from other family members abroad) may apply for a temporary residence permit at the same time, for the same period, and are entitled to work in Lithuania without a work permit.

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Limits of the record
  • The page's only general sentence on entering, residing and working as an intra-corporate transferee names the Republic of Cyprus instead of Lithuania, so the scope of work in Lithuania under a Lithuanian-issued ICT permit (e.g. whether it is limited to the host entity) is not established by a usable sentence.

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

The ICT permit is valid for 3 years for managers and specialists, or 1 year for trainees (or the duration of the transfer if shorter); after that maximum, the holder must leave Lithuania for 3 months before a new ICT permit can be granted. The official source does not state a longer-term residence direction.

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

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