Formen der Arbeits- und Aufenthaltsbewilligung
Short-term residence permits (4 months)
The following requirements must be fulfilled to grant a short-term residence permit:
- Duration and purpose must be fixed in advance.
- The foreigner can not replace (rotation) another short-term resident or seasonal worker.
- The foreigner must not have lived in the previous year in Switzerland for gainful employment with a seasonal permit for more than seven months.
- The number of short-term employed foreigners may only exceed one-fourth of the total staff in the facility in proven exceptional cases.
Short-term residence permits (6 months)
Such permission will only be granted if the KIGA grants a unit from the Kanton quota and a federal quota of the Federal Office
for Foreign Affairs can be utilized. This permission does not allow you to bring family members. This permission can neither
be extended nor renewed.
Seasonal permission
Such permission will only be granted to employees who will take up their gainful employment on seasonal facility (building
trade, agriculture, catering trade etc.) for which the KIGA has allocated a unit from the Kanton quota.
Annual residence permit
The Kanton Office for Foreign Affairs or the Federal Office for Foreign Affairs can grant such permission (permit "B"), if the
following requirements are fulfilled:
- Taking up residence in the Kanton Zug
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either:
qualified training or
special knowledge or
management function in international enterprises - creation or maintenance of jobs
- allocation of a unit from the Kanton quota through the economic directorate
Residence permit
A residence permit ("C") may be granted to the foreigner after many years (as a rule 5 to 10 years) and an
uninterrupted stay.
Unlike stay permit the residence permit is unconditional and unlimited.






