Residence permit for a worker assigned to a business continuity site
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Titre de sejour en qualite de « travailleur salarie » (site de continuite d'activite) as of 2026-06-12[1] Art. 44bis(10) issues 'un titre de sejour en qualite de « travailleur salarie »' to the worker temporarily assigned to a business-continuity site. The route has no distinct statutory title of its own. |
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| Official name (English) | Residence permit for a worker assigned to a business continuity site as of 2026-06-12[1] |
| Legal basis | Loi modifiee du 29 aout 2008 sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration, art. 44bis as of 2026-06-12[1] |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-06-12[1] |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA, EFTA as of 2026-06-12[1] Art. 44bis(1) addresses 'le travailleur ressortissant de pays tiers'; the third-country framing of chapter 3 applies. |
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Permit terms
| Initial duration | up to 1 year as of 2026-06-12[1] Art. 44bis(10): the permit is 'valable pour une duree maximale d'un an, sans pouvoir depasser la date d'echeance de l'inscription au registre des entites agreees'. The register entry itself is valid for one year and renewable (art. 44bis(5)), so the entity's registration is a second ceiling on the permit's term. |
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| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-06-12[1] Art. 44bis(10): 'renouvelable pour une duree d'un an sur demande, si les conditions prevues au present article restent remplies'. |
| Renewal duration | 1 year as of 2026-06-12[1] Art. 44bis(10), same sentence. |
| Work rights | employment only as of 2026-06-12[1] The permit is issued in the capacity of 'travailleur salarie' for the work described in the entity's register application (art. 44bis(2)(f)). Art. 44bis(12) requires a move to an ordinary art. 42 or art. 45 authorisation if the sending entity's activity is permanently taken over by a Luxembourg-established entity. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-06-12[1] Not established. Art. 44bis is drafted as a derogation from art. 42 and 43 for a temporary contingency and says nothing about long-term resident status; art. 80(1) does not exclude the holder in terms. Recorded unknown. |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2026-06-12[1] Art. 44bis(8)(b): the application must enclose, for each worker to be transferred, their employment contract signed with the sending entity. |
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| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2026-06-12[1] The whole route runs through the sending entity: it must first be entered on the register of approved entities kept by the minister responsible for foreign affairs (art. 44bis(2) to (5)), it files the transfer application when the incident occurs (art. 44bis(8)), and the register entry's lapse or removal is a ground for withdrawing the worker's permit (art. 44bis(11)). |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-06-12[1] |
Process
| Where to apply from | from abroad only as of 2026-06-12[1] Art. 44bis(8): once the major incident occurs the sending entity applies to the minister responsible for foreign affairs, listing the workers to be transferred with their signed contracts; the workers are by construction working in the third country at that point. |
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Physical presence
| none stated | to keep the permit as of 2026-06-12[1] Art. 44bis states no presence or absence condition; the permit lapses instead on the events listed in art. 44bis(11), chiefly the end of the major incident or removal of the sending entity from the register. No presence or absence rule was established for this route. The six-month rule recorded on Luxembourg's other third-country routes – a holder intending to leave for more than six months must return the permit and file a declaration of departure at the commune – is stated on the guichet pages for those routes and is not stated on the sources read for this one. Recorded none_stated rather than carried across, because the obligation's source is a page about a different permit. |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-06-12[1] |
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Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 1 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 1 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2026-06-12 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-06-12 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-17 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Version consolidée applicable au 12/06/2026 : Loi du 29 août 2008 portant sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration
Journal officiel du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (Legilux) · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2026-06-12 · Accessed 2026-08-14