---
title: "Intra-Company Transfer Permit"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/migration-and-immigration-law-en/intra-company-transfer-permit-en"
field: "Migration & Immigration Law"
description: "Residence during corporate transfer in Georgia: the employment-anchored status, validity terms and re-arrangement. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-06-27"
updated: "2026-11-07"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Intra-Company Transfer Permit

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/migration-and-immigration-law-en/intra-company-transfer-permit-en

Corporate transfer — moving an employee from one position to another, within a country or across borders — affects, from the immigration standpoint, a status built on employment. In Georgia the work residence permit is tied to the employer, and that is precisely why a transfer is not merely an HR matter: it is also a question of preserving the status. This page explains how that link works under the Law of Georgia on the Legal Status of Aliens and Stateless Persons, and how to plan so that the employee's movement does not damage the status.

## How residence is tied to employment

The work residence permit is built on activity: an applicant submits to the Agency a document confirming labour or entrepreneurial activity and an income certificate — monthly income must not be less than five times the average consumer subsistence minimum — while the employer enterprise's turnover must reach at least 50 000 GEL per applicant (for educational and medical institutions — 35 000 GEL). This means the basis of the status is a concrete working relationship — and when that changes, the basis wavers.

## The effect of terminating the activity

The law regulates this with a clear norm: an alien's period of stay in Georgia may be terminated where he or she has ceased the activity or relationship on the basis of which the residence permit was obtained. In transfer practice this means: when an employee moves from one employer to another, the permit built on the old relationship terminates concurrently — and within the new employer's frame the status must be arranged or re-arranged anew. In addition, within 6 months of receiving the residence permit an application must be made to the Agency to collect the residence card — an administrative detail that must fit into the transfer plan as well.

## Validity and extension

The regime of temporary permits is familiar: first issuance runs from 6 months to 1 year, and extension is possible up to a maximum of 12 years — on the same conditions as those of the permit whose extension is requested. In the transfer context the conditions of extension are transferred to the new employer: substantiating the new turnover and income becomes current precisely at the moment of movement. In a special case the first permit is issued for 5 years — but that is an exception, not the rule.

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### What happens to the permit when the employer changes?

The period of stay may be terminated — the status is arranged anew within the new employer's frame.

### The new employer's requirements?

Turnover of 50 000 GEL (educational and medical — 35 000) per person; income — five times the minimum.

### Terms?

6 months to 1 year; extension up to 12 years; in a special case 5 years.

### The 6-month rule?

An application to collect the residence card must be made within 6 months of the permit.

### What happens in 6 months?

An application to the agency for the certificate is required.