Prime Relocation
Full-service relocation · LucernePrime Relocation is a family-owned relocation agency in Zug, founded in 2006, helping expats, families and HR teams with home search, permits, temporary housing, schools and settling in.
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Immigration & permits in Lucerne
expat-services.ch lists 6 hand-checked English-speaking immigration and permit services in Lucerne, including Prime Relocation (our partner), Welcome Service (our partner), Auris Relocation (our partner) and Lifestylemanagers (our partner).
Besides English, they also work in German, French, Italian and Spanish. Every profile shows the services, languages and contact details, checked by hand before going live.
Immigration & permits in Lucerne
6 providers
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Welcome Service
Full-service relocation · LucerneWelcome Service is a family-owned relocation firm founded in 1990, with offices in Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich, handling permits, home search, schools and settling in for families and HR teams.
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Auris Relocation
Full-service relocation · LucerneAuris Relocation is a Swiss relocation and global mobility firm with nine offices from Geneva to Lugano, handling permits, home search, schools and moves for companies and families.
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Lifestylemanagers
Full-service relocation · LucerneLifestylemanagers is a family-run relocation and real estate firm in Steinhausen that has helped private clients and companies settle in the canton of Zug since 2007.
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RelEx
Full-service relocation · LucerneRelEx is a relocation company from Andelfingen that helps expats find a flat and settle in around Zurich, Zug and Lucerne, with every service bookable on its own.
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ReloNest
Destination services · LucerneReloNest is a Zurich-based relocation company, founded in 2023, that provides home search, school search, permits and settling-in help through consultants in nine Swiss cities.
Local facts
Immigration & permits: what's particular to Lucerne
The cantonal Amt für Migration, at Fruttstrasse 15, handles residence and work permits, family reunification, students, visitors and recognised refugees for canton Lucerne (Canton of Lucerne, checked ). Its counter is open Monday to Wednesday and Friday from 09:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:00 and on Thursday from 14:00 to 17:00, and the telephone, 041 228 77 80, follows the same hours (Canton of Lucerne, checked ). Applicants who only have documents to hand in are asked to send them by post or e-mail (Canton of Lucerne, checked ).
EU/EFTA nationals may work up to 90 days in a calendar year under a notification procedure, which in this canton is run by the labour market authority wira; a stay of more than three months needs a residence permit (Canton of Lucerne, checked ). A B permit is valid for five years for EU/EFTA nationals and for one year for third-country nationals, and the expiry notice (Verfallsanzeige) can be submitted from three months to two weeks before the end of validity (Canton of Lucerne, checked ).
At the end of 2024 canton Lucerne had 89,419 foreign nationals with permanent residence, 50,955 of them with a C permit and 37,891 with a B permit, and in 2024 it granted 3,050 B permits to EU/EFTA workers (Canton of Lucerne, checked ). Fees and processing times are on the permit services page for Lucerne.
Registering in Lucerne
New residents register with the Einwohnerdienste (residents' office) in the Customer Centre at Obergrundstrasse 1 within 14 days (1 Jan 2026) (City of Lucerne, checked ). The counters are open Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 17:00, the fee is CHF 40, and people arriving from abroad register in person (City of Lucerne, checked ). A Welcome Desk at the same address gives newcomers short consultations without an appointment on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons (City of Lucerne, checked ). See registering at your commune.
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