Temporary residence for the purpose of employment — intra-corporate transfer
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Prechodný pobyt na účel zamestnania — vnútropodnikový presun as of 2026-08-24[3][7] |
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| Official name (English) | Temporary residence for the purpose of employment — intra-corporate transfer as of 2026-08-24[7] Translation; Slovakia publishes no official English name for this limb. |
| Legal basis | Zákon č. 404/2011 Z. z. o pobyte cudzincov, § 23 (prechodný pobyt na účel zamestnania) pre vnútropodnikový presun; zákon č. 5/2004 Z. z. o službách zamestnanosti, § 22 ods. 10 a § 21b; zavedené zákonom č. 82/2017 Z. z. as of 2026-08-24[3][7] |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-08-24[3] |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU as of 2026-08-24[3] |
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| Minimum age | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. |
| Criminal-record condition | Not established from a qualifying source Not established from a source specific to this limb; the general § 32 good-character condition applies to temporary residence, but the Central Office's own annex list for the transfer names only the contract, the qualification decision for regulated occupations, and the documents evidencing the transfer. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. The Central Office distinguishes a short transfer of at most 90 days, handled by a work permit rather than a residence, from a long transfer handled by a confirmation-based residence, but states no ceiling for the long one; the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs' list of maximum terms names the § 22 to § 30 purposes and the Blue Card and does not break the employment purpose down by limb. |
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| Renewable | Not established from a qualifying source Not established for this limb. |
| Work rights | own activity only as of 2026-08-24[3][7] |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2026-08-24[7] A copy of the employment contract with the sending employer, which must exist before and during the transfer, plus a document naming the host entity and the transfer's start and end dates. |
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| Labour-market test | No as of 2026-08-24[7][8] The Central Office lists the intra-corporate transfer among the cases in which the labour office does not examine the situation on the labour market, and states separately that the employer has no duty to report the vacancy at all. |
| Qualification requirement | degree, equivalent experience as of 2026-08-24[7] The transfer applies to two classes only: a third-country national with university education undergoing traineeship for professional development or to acquire business-management knowledge, and a person performing the function of a manager or of a specialist requiring extraordinary professional knowledge, skills, abilities, qualifications and experience necessary for the operation or management of the business. The first limb is a degree condition; the second is expertise, which is why both values are recorded. |
| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2026-08-24[7] The labour office issues the confirmation on the police unit's request rather than the employer's, but the host entity must satisfy the § 70 ods. 7 conditions and the illegal-employment and penalty tests, so the route cannot be taken without a compliant Slovak host. |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-08-24[1][3] Not a job-search instrument. |
Process
| Where to apply from | from abroad only as of 2026-08-24[3][5] The Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs states that the in-country filing channel does not apply where the application is for the employment purpose as an intra-corporate transfer, and the Border and Aliens Police carry the same exclusion for an applicant under § 23 ods. 5. The definition points the same way: a transferee is by definition outside Slovakia and the member states when the application is made. The Central Office's own page, last updated 26 January 2022, still describes both channels; that is a contradiction between two Tier-1 publishers on procedure and it is the police say, and because the substantive definition supports it. |
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| Statutory processing time | 90 days as of 2026-08-24[8] The general employment-purpose deadline; no shorter period is stated for transfers. |
| Observed processing time | Not established from a qualifying source No official observed-duration statistics were located. |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Yes as of 2026-08-24[5][6] Family members apply under § 27; the Employment Services Act names the family of a transferee expressly in its list of people who need no work permit. |
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| Family members' work rights | full as of 2026-08-24[2][6] § 23a ods. 1 písm. c): the family member of an intra-corporate transferee holding family-reunification residence needs neither a work permit nor a labour-office confirmation, and does not serve the nine-month wait that applies to family reunification generally. |
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Verification
| Sources cited | 8 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 7 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2026-08-24 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-24 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-26 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Zákon č. 404/2011 Z. z. o pobyte cudzincov a o zmene a doplnení niektorých zákonov (znenie vyhlásené v Zbierke zákonov, čiastka 126)
Ministerstvo vnútra SR (kópia vyhláseného znenia na webovom sídle Úradu hraničnej a cudzineckej polície) · gazette · Tier 1 · Published 2011-10-21 · Accessed 2026-08-24 - [2] Kto nepotrebuje povolenie na zamestnanie ani potvrdenie o možnosti obsadenia voľného pracovného miesta?
Migračné informačné centrum IOM (Medzinárodná organizácia pre migráciu) · international organisation · Tier 2 · Published 2026-08-11 · Accessed 2026-08-24 - [3] Pobyt cudzinca – účely prechodného pobytu, druhy trvalého pobytu a podávanie žiadostí
Ministerstvo zahraničných vecí a európskych záležitostí SR (Generálny konzulát SR v Užhorode) · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2022-07-08 · Accessed 2026-08-24 - [4] Poplatky — sadzobník konzulárnych poplatkov, položky 240 až 265 (položka 242: žiadosti o udelenie pobytu)
Ministerstvo zahraničných vecí a európskych záležitostí SR · fee schedule · Tier 1 · Published 2024-03-11 · Accessed 2026-08-24 - [5] 17. Doklady potrebné k prijatiu žiadosti o udelenie prechodného pobytu na účel zlúčenia rodiny podľa § 27 zákona o pobyte cudzincov (edícia júl 2025)
Úrad hraničnej a cudzineckej polície Prezídia Policajného zboru, Ministerstvo vnútra SR · official guidance · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-24 - [6] 4. Zamestnanie štátneho príslušníka tretej krajiny, u ktorého sa povolenie na zamestnanie ani potvrdenie o možnosti obsadenia VPM nevyžaduje (§ 23a zákona č. 5/2004 Z. z. o službách zamestnanosti)
Ústredie práce, sociálnych vecí a rodiny SR · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2024-03-07 · Accessed 2026-08-24 - [7] Zamestnanie štátneho príslušníka tretej krajiny na účel sezónneho zamestnania alebo v rámci vnútropodnikového presunu
Ústredie práce, sociálnych vecí a rodiny SR · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2022-01-26 · Accessed 2026-08-24 - [8] 1. Zamestnanie štátneho príslušníka tretej krajiny s potvrdením o možnosti obsadenia voľného pracovného miesta
Ústredie práce, sociálnych vecí a rodiny SR · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2023-01-09 · Accessed 2026-08-24