Residence permit for salaried workers
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Titre de sejour pour « travailleur salarie » as of 2026-06-12[2] Art. 43(1) names the title 'titre de sejour pour «travailleur salarie»' and states that it constitutes a single permit (permis unique). |
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| Official name (English) | Residence permit for salaried workers as of 2023-07-10[1] Guichet's own English rendering; its page is titled 'Applying for a residence permit for third-country national salaried workers'. |
| Legal basis | Loi modifiee du 29 aout 2008 sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration, art. 42 and 43 as of 2026-06-12[2] Art. 42 sets the conditions for the authorisation to stay and, where required, the work authorisation; art. 43 the permit's term, its first-year sector and profession restriction, and renewal. Art. 42(1)1 cross-refers to Code du travail art. L. 622-4(4) (hiring priority) and art. 42(1)4 to the vacancy declaration to ADEM. |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-06-12[2] Art. 43(1) issues a 'titre de sejour' under art. 40 which is also the work permit – a single permit within the meaning of Directive 2011/98/EU. |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA, EFTA as of 2023-07-10[1] Guichet: the route is for 'a third-country national (i.e. a national from a country which is not an EU Member State or a country treated as such – Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland)'. |
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| Criminal-record condition | Yes as of 2023-07-10[1] Guichet's authorisation-to-stay document list requires a criminal-record extract or affidavit from the country of legal residence, and a recent Luxembourg criminal-record extract at renewal. Art. 42 itself states no criminal-record condition; the public-order test sits in the general art. 34 entry conditions. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | up to 1 year as of 2026-06-12[1][2] Art. 43(1): the permit is 'valable pour une duree maximale d'un an'. Guichet says the same – 'valid for a maximum of 1 year'. Exception stated by guichet: a third-country national who held long-term resident status in another EU member state receives a permit valid for five years, renewable on request. |
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| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-06-12[1][2] |
| Renewal duration | up to 3 years as of 2026-06-12[1][2] Art. 43(4): renewable on request 'pour une duree maximale de trois ans'. Guichet: 'As of the first renewal, the residence permit is renewable for a maximum duration of 3 years and gives access to any sector and any profession.' |
| Work rights | employment only as of 2026-06-12[2] |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Yes as of 2026-06-12[1][2] Guichet: 'After 5 years of lawful and uninterrupted stay on the territory of Luxembourg, third-country nationals may submit an application for a long-term residence permit.' Art. 80(1)'s five-year qualifying period does not exclude salaried-worker permit holders. |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2026-06-12[1][2] Art. 42(1)4 requires possession of an employment contract for a post declared vacant to the Agence pour le developpement de l'emploi (ADEM). |
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| Labour-market test | Yes as of 2026-06-12[1][2] Art. 42(1)1: the hiring priority certain workers enjoy under Code du travail art. L. 622-4(4) must not be prejudiced. Guichet describes the mechanism: the employer declares the vacancy to ADEM, and if no suitable registered candidate is presented within three weeks the employer may request a certificate from ADEM's director allowing recruitment of a third-country national. That certificate is a prerequisite the applicant attaches to the authorisation-to-stay application. |
| Qualification requirement | Recorded at the source, but not reducible to a single value as of 2026-06-12[2] |
| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2026-06-12[1][2] The employer declares the vacancy to ADEM, obtains and hands over the ADEM certificate, must see and copy the authorisation to stay before the working relationship begins and keep the copy for the contract's duration, and must notify the General Department of immigration of the start of the relationship within three working days. Guichet states administrative and criminal sanctions for employers who employ third-country nationals without a valid authorisation. |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-06-12[2] This is an ordinary salaried-employment route, not a job-search instrument. Luxembourg's job-search instrument is art. 67-4, recorded as lu-job-search-business-creation. |
Process
| Where to apply from | from abroad only as of 2023-07-10[1] |
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| Statutory processing time | up to 4 months as of 2026-06-12[2] Art. 42(3): the minister decides 'des que possible et en tout etat de cause dans un delai de quatre mois suivant la date de depot de la demande', extendable in exceptional circumstances tied to the complexity of the examination; absence of a decision within the period lets the applicant treat the application as rejected and appeal. Art. 42(4) suspends the clock while requested additional documents are outstanding. |
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Physical presence
| maximum consecutive absence | 6 months · to keep the permit as of 2023-07-10[1] |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Yes as of 2026-06-12[2] |
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| Eligible relations | spouse, registered partner, minor child as of 2026-06-12[2] Art. 70(1): spouse, registered partner under the amended Law of 9 July 2004, and unmarried children under 18 of the sponsor and/or the spouse or partner, subject to custody. The discretionary categories of art. 70(5) are recorded on the family-reunification route itself. |
| Family members' work rights | full as of 2026-06-12[2] Art. 74(2): the family-member permit confers, from issue, access to education and vocational guidance, training, and the right to carry on a salaried or self-employed activity. |
Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 2 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 2 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2023-07-10 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-06-12 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-17 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Applying for a residence permit for third-country national salaried workers
Guichet.lu – State Information and Press Service, Luxembourg · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2023-07-10 · Accessed 2026-08-14 - [2] 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