Intra-corporate Transfer
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Ενδοεταιρική Μετάθεση as of 2025-12-30[2][3] |
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| Official name (English) | Intra-corporate Transfer as of 2025-12-30[2][3] The department's own English rendering; English is not an official language of Cyprus. |
| Legal basis | Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105), harmonising Directive 2014/66/EU of 15 May 2014 on intra-corporate transfers; mobility under articles 18δισΙ, 18δισΙΑ (short-term) and 18δισΙΒ (long-term) as of 2025-12-30[2][3] |
| Instrument type | residence card as of 2025-12-30[2][3] |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA as of 2025-12-30[2][3] The regime applies to third-country nationals; EU and EEA nationals are recorded as outside its scope on that basis. Whether Swiss nationals are likewise outside its scope is not stated. |
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| Criminal-record condition | Not established from a qualifying source[2][3] Not stated. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | 1 to 3 years as of 2025-12-30[2][3] |
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| How the initial term is set | matches the assignment |
| Renewable | Yes as of 2025-12-30[2][3] A renewal fee for the intra-corporate transfer permit is published. |
| Maximum total duration | Not established from a qualifying source[2][3] Not stated on the page. |
| Work rights | own activity only as of 2025-12-30[2][3] The permit entitles the transferee to be employed in any company in Cyprus belonging to the same group as the company abroad; the main employer is indicated on the permit. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2025-12-30[2][3] The transfer is within a corporate group and the Cyprus company applies as employer. |
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| Labour-market test | Not established from a qualifying source[2][3] Not stated. |
| Qualification requirement | Not established from a qualifying source[2][3] Not stated on the page. The three transferee categories — directors, specialists and trainee employees — have separate supporting-document checklists which were not opened. |
| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2025-12-30[2][3] The Cyprus company submits the application; where the group's approval is withdrawn the department cancels the permits issued on it. |
| Job-search route | No as of 2025-12-30[2][3] |
Process
| Where to apply from | from abroad only as of 2025-12-30[2][3] Where Cyprus is the first member state: 'the application and its supporting documents for obtaining an entry permit are submitted when the third-country national is abroad, by the Cyprus company (employer).' The long-term mobility application, where Cyprus is the second member state, may be submitted with the transferee abroad or in Cyprus. |
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| Statutory processing time | 90 days as of 2025-12-30[2][3] 90 days for the intra-corporate transfer permit and for the long-term mobility permit; a 20-day deadline applies to examining a short-term mobility notification. |
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| Stages |
Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Yes as of 2025-12-29[1] Sponsors holding an intra-corporate transfer permit or a long-term mobility permit issued by Cyprus are exempt from the two-year prior residence condition, from the one-year permit validity condition and from the reasonable-prospect-of-permanent-residence condition; the family application may be submitted and examined at the same time as the sponsor's own. |
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| Eligible relations | spouse, minor child as of 2025-12-29[1] |
| Family may apply at the same time | Yes as of 2025-12-29[1] Expressly permitted for intra-corporate transferees. |
| Family members' work rights | full as of 2025-12-29[1] 'Spouses/partners in civil unions of long-term residents and intra-corporate transferees have free access to the labour market, which also includes self-employment.' |
Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 3 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 3 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2025-12-29 |
| Newest as-of date | 2025-12-30 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-11 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Family members of certain third country nationals that are legally residing in Cyprus (FR family reunification)
Migration Department, Deputy Ministry of Migration and International Protection · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2025-12-29 · Accessed 2026-08-08 - [2] Intra-corporate Transfer
Migration Department, Deputy Ministry of Migration and International Protection · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2025-12-30 · Accessed 2026-08-08 - [3] Ενδοεταιρική Μετάθεση
Migration Department, Deputy Ministry of Migration and International Protection · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2025-12-30 · Accessed 2026-08-08