{
  "country": {
    "code": "DE",
    "name": "Germany"
  },
  "route": {
    "id": "de-ict-card",
    "name": "ICT Card — a transfer within your company (§ 19)",
    "slug": "ict-card-intra-corporate-transfer",
    "kind": "res-work",
    "summary": "Your company moves you to its German branch for more than 90 days, as a manager, specialist or trainee. Up to three years, or one year for trainees.",
    "info_url": "https://www.bamf.de/EN/Themen/MigrationAufenthalt/ZuwandererDrittstaaten/Arbeit/ICT/ict-node.html",
    "scope": {
      "value": "some-conditions-stated-not-asked",
      "reason": "Every rule that decides this route is a question you answer; two conditions the authority states — the transfer of more than ninety days in a manager, specialist or trainee role, and the six months already with the company — are listed with the rules below and never asked.",
      "not_asked": [
        "transfer-longer-than-ninety-days",
        "six-months-with-the-company-before-the-transfer"
      ]
    },
    "criteria": [
      {
        "field": "citizenship",
        "op": "eq",
        "value": "third_country"
      },
      {
        "field": "destination",
        "op": "in",
        "values": [
          "de",
          "all"
        ]
      },
      {
        "field": "situation",
        "op": "eq",
        "value": "ict",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.bamf.de/EN/Themen/MigrationAufenthalt/ZuwandererDrittstaaten/Arbeit/ICT/ict-node.html",
          "quote": "you have been employed by the undertaking or group of undertakings for at least six months",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07"
        }
      },
      {
        "op": "any",
        "label": "located in Germany",
        "paths": [
          {
            "label": "Germany chosen as destination",
            "criteria": [
              {
                "field": "destination",
                "op": "eq",
                "value": "de"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "label": "transfer to Germany",
            "criteria": [
              {
                "field": "situation_country",
                "op": "eq",
                "value": "de"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "statements": [
      {
        "id": "transfer-longer-than-ninety-days",
        "kind": "precondition",
        "text": "A transfer of more than 90 days, in a manager, specialist or trainee role",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.bamf.de/EN/Themen/MigrationAufenthalt/ZuwandererDrittstaaten/Arbeit/ICT/ict-node.html",
          "quote": "the intra-corporate transfer is to last longer than 90 days",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07"
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "six-months-with-the-company-before-the-transfer",
        "kind": "precondition",
        "text": "At least six months already employed by the company or group, and still with it throughout the transfer",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.bamf.de/EN/Themen/MigrationAufenthalt/ZuwandererDrittstaaten/Arbeit/ICT/ict-node.html",
          "quote": "you have been employed by the undertaking or group of undertakings for at least six months, and belong to the undertaking uninterruptedly for the period of the transfer,",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "page": "https://permitrulebook.com/germany/ict-card-intra-corporate-transfer/",
  "dataset_version": "2026.09.18",
  "schema_version": "0.8.2",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
  "source": "https://github.com/OytunOnal/permit-rulebook-data",
  "rules_read": "2026-09-17"
}