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Luxembourg Posted Worker Residence Permit

Luxembourg Residency
Pathway overview

At a glance

Your employer abroad may send you to Luxembourg temporarily to provide a service for a client there. You remain employed by the overseas business. For non-EU workers, the application process depends on whether that business is based inside or outside the EU, EEA, or Switzerland.

Job
A temporary service assignment in Luxembourg while remaining employed by the overseas business
Employer within the EU area
Normally work and reside lawfully in the employer’s EU, EEA, or Swiss country, with a genuine service contract for the posting
Employer outside the EU area
At least six months on a permanent contract with the overseas employer, plus the required posting and individual entry approvals

Summary

Foreign employers can send employees to Luxembourg for temporary service work, with different procedures for businesses based in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland and those based elsewhere. Both involve a genuine temporary service assignment and continuing employment abroad, but the required authorizations and arrival formalities differ.

An employer outside the area normally needs business and collective posting approval, followed by each worker's individual authorization before travel. The route does not cover joining the local client's staff or unrelated work. It is also different from a company-group transfer and should not be treated as a direct settlement route.

The foreign employer’s location determines the posting procedure
  1. Identify the employer’s country of establishment EU, EEA, Swiss, and other employers use different immigration branches.
  2. Document the continuing foreign employment Set out the Luxembourg service contract, assignment, duration, and pay.
  3. Complete the applicable posting and arrival required steps Check residence-card and medical steps where required and track the assignment’s limits.

This is not recruitment into the Luxembourg client’s staff or permission for unrelated work.

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Eligibility

EEA means the EU countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

Employer established in the EU, EEA or Switzerland

The worker must normally work abroad for that employer, remain linked by an employment contract, and be lawfully entitled to reside and work in the employer's country. There must be a genuine time-limited service contract between the posting employer and the Luxembourg recipient. The employer should obtain the applicable A1 social-security certificate and complete Luxembourg's labor-law posting declaration.

The worker declares arrival to the Luxembourg commune within 3 days. For a stay over 90 days, the worker applies for the residence permit within 3 months. Guichet.lu states that no Luxembourg immigration medical check is required for this EU-established-employer branch because the check is treated as having occurred in the usual Member State of residence.

Employer established outside the EU, EEA or Switzerland

The foreign service provider must first have the required Luxembourg business permit and obtain collective posting authorization. Each worker needs individual temporary authorization before entry, health and accident insurance, a permanent employment contract with the posting business that began at least 6 months before the posting, and a signed assignment or mission order.

After entry, the worker declares arrival within 3 days. A stay over 90 days requires the Luxembourg medical check and residence-card application within 3 months. The employer must explain the exceptional circumstances and why the national labor market is unaffected.

In both branches, Luxembourg's mandatory employment conditions apply to work performed there, including the applicable pay, working-time, leave, safety and housing rules. The residence-card fee is listed as €80.

More about this route

The route is tied to the foreign employer, service contract and posting period. It is not ordinary recruitment into a Luxembourg job.

What This Route Allows

The permit authorizes the stated service assignment for no longer than the posting and only for the employer connected to the authorization. An EU-established employer can request an extension when the posting is extended. For a non-EU-established employer, extension is limited to duly justified exceptional circumstances where the original service could not be completed on time.

What This Route Is Not

This is not a permit to join the Luxembourg client's staff, change employer or carry out unrelated work. A worker who wants a local job must qualify for the salaried-worker route or another appropriate route.

It is not the ICT route for managers, specialists or trainees transferred inside a corporate group. Posted or seconded-worker residence is also excluded while assessing Luxembourg EU long-term resident status, so it should not be presented as a direct settlement route.

Next Steps

  1. Confirm the posting employer's country of establishment and choose the correct branch.
  2. Put the foreign employment relationship, Luxembourg service contract, assignment, duration and pay terms in writing.
  3. Complete the A1 and labor-posting required steps for an EU-based employer, or the business-permit and collective-authorization steps for a non-EU employer.
  4. Obtain any required individual authorization before travel.
  5. Complete the commune and, where applicable, medical and residence-card steps after arrival.
  6. Reassess the route before changing the employer, service, duration or activity.

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