This category applies specifically to employees being transferred to a Japanese branch, subsidiary, or affiliated company of the employer they already work for — not to people applying for a new job at an unrelated Japanese company.
The core eligibility rule: you need at least one continuous year of employment at the transferring company, or at another company within the same corporate group, immediately before the transfer. The role you're moving into generally needs to fall under the same kind of specialized or technical work covered by the Engineer/Specialist visa — this visa doesn't open up general labor roles, it's specifically for moving specialist staff within a company structure.
Because eligibility is tied to verifiable existing employment rather than an open job search, approval tends to be more predictable and often faster than other work visa categories — there's less for Immigration to assess about whether the role and qualifications match, since the employment relationship already exists. Salary and benefits are typically set by the transferring company's internal international assignment policy rather than negotiated fresh, which is worth clarifying with HR before the move.
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