Corporate International Relocation Services for Businesses in China

Planning to relocate company employees from China to your other global business locations? Our IAS team of international relocation experts with specialist knowledge and vast experience in corporate relocation services can help you.

We currently offer expat relocation service in 51 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. For more information on what bespoke services we can offer based on your specific requirements, call us today on +44 (0)333 414 9244.

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Our Advice Package is the ideal option if you are looking for expert immigration legal advice. With this service, you will have a one-on-one session with one of our immigration lawyers.

Your immigration lawyer will consider your case and offer bespoke advice, and they will advise you on the optimum route to take to achieve your desired result.

During your advice session, you will be able to discuss your case and get detailed information about your options to proceed with your case. We will:

Review your situation and explore your opportunities to get your desired immigration results.

Advice on the most appropriate documentary evidence required to support your case.

Discuss the requirements that you need to meet to qualify for your visa.

Outline the expected time frames to process your application.

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Our Corporate International Relocation Services

Relocating employees to a new country for a longer term involves comprehensive and thorough planning. An international relocation process can be categorised into three broad phases:

Pre-departure planning phase (including visas and immigration)
Moving to the destination country from the country of origin
Settling in the destination country

IAS offers end-to-end assistance with all the above relocation phases as well as international removals. Moreover, we understand that the same hat does not fit all. So at IAS, our experts offer bespoke services tailored to suit our clients’ specific relocation needs, based on extensive consultations with them.

Here’s a brief overview of our most popular international mobility services:

Pre-departure planning: Helping with research, plan and prep your corporate relocation programme, including mapping out a realistic timeline as well as calculating your budgetary requirements
Immigration and visas: Starting with finding the most suitable visa/immigration option depending on your company’s and the concerned employee’s circumstances, to helping with the visa application, document arrangement, and final submission, as well as providing legal assistance in case of a visa refusal or rejection
Home and school search: Helping your transferred employees find a suitable accommodation in the destination country to providing legal and official assistance with the actual buying/renting process, as well as assisting with the search for the best schooling options for their children moving to the destination country with them
Settling-in support: Various services to help your transferees and their family members settle in the destination country, including helping with tax, legal and other official requirements that they must fulfil as immigrants
Cultural and language integration: Supporting your transferred employees with orientation, cultural integration and language training, so that they can effectively run your business operations in the destination country
Pet relocation: In case your employees have pets moving abroad with them, we can ensure that the pets are transported to the destination country in accordance with its legal requirements as well as actually transporting them in the safest and most comfortable conditions

Let’s explore some of the abovementioned services in further detail.

Home Search Assistance in the Destination Country

Even before your employees move to the destination country, it is essential to find a suitable accommodation for themselves and their accompanying family members there. Many countries require a residential address as part of their long-term visa/residency permit applications. Our IAS team of corporate relocation experts can help your relocating staff with both temporary accommodation and long-term housing.

Temporary Accommodation

While relocating internationally, many actually prefer to move into temporary accommodations to start with, before they invest in long-term housing or other real estate. We start with scheduling a briefing call with your concerned employee to understand their needs and expectations for their preferred temporary accommodation in the destination country.

This is followed by short-term stay searches by our expert team members, who then prepare an in-depth report on likely properties, complete with detailed descriptions and images. Our in-country relocation advisers will accompany the transferees to property viewings and lease signings, including negotiation with the landlord or the renting agency on their behalf for favourable terms and conditions.

We also help with coordinating your staffs’ arrival dates in the destination country and collecting the keys to the properties on their behalf.

Long-Term Housing

We start with conducting a needs assessment to understand the requirements as well as preferences for property type, location, budget, and other key criteria. Based on the same, we perform a comprehensive search for available properties in desired areas in the destination country.

Once we have a list of preferred properties approved by your transferred employee, we will work on scheduling property viewings. We will accompany them to these viewings, offering our guidance and expert advice on the spot. After they have zeroed in on their property of choice, we will negotiate and review lease agreements on their behalf to ensure fair and reasonable terms and conditions. We will also accompany them to the lease signing to provide our assistance as and when required.

Before your staff and their family move in, our team will carry out a detailed inspection to confirm the property’s cleanliness, maintenance, and overall condition, and prepare an inventory report with photos for their perusal. We will also assist with setting up essential utilities (e.g., gas, electric, water, internet, phone services etc.), so that their new home is all ready for them to move in.

Shipping and Logistics Support

Packing and transporting your executives and staffs’ household goods from China to their destination country(s) can prove to be a nightmare if not planned and handled properly. The safety of your employees’ personal goods during international shipment, especially when fragile items are concerned, depends on the professionalism and expertise of your shipping partner.

Our IAS team can assist your transferees with shipping their household goods to the destination country as well as taking care of the import duties, regulations, and filling up of various forms. Our reliable and efficient household goods shipment process ensures that the household items arrive safely at your employees’ overseas residence on time. We provide expert handling of fragile and bulky items.

Your employees may choose from our standard or express delivery based on their needs. We also offer door-to-door service, which means that we will coordinate pickup and delivery of their household goods depending on their convenience and availability for a hassle-free experience.

IAS offers door-to-door shipping and logistics support. Call our international relocation experts today.

Local Registrations in New Country for Executives and Staff

Once your staff have relocated to a new country, there are usually a good number of official requirements that they must fulfil, such as social security registration or applying for national health card or tax registration.

Our relocation experts will assist your employees with every aspect of their settling-in process, e.g., from setting up their bank accounts to purchasing a car, area orientation, registering with authorities and the tax office, obtaining a driver’s license, obtaining required insurance policies (health, home, car, etc.) and so on.

Tax Services for Businesses and Relocated Employees

Understanding how to pay the income and other taxes in a new country can be quite confusing for anyone, if not challenging. Our tax experts at IAS can take care of this aspect, too. Once your relocated employee arrives in the destination country, we will provide them with a comprehensive tax briefing, followed by a written report summarising their tax implications in the destination country based on their circumstances.

We also help with:

Completing the registration procedure with the tax authorities
Submitting requests for a special regime and communicate the employee’s arrival for withholding purposes, where applicable
Filing the required declarations regarding the special regime, residency, or non-residency status, as applicable
Preparing and submitting any tax declaration, including declaring foreign assets
Filing tax returns
Completing deregistration with the tax authorities and communicating your employee’s exit from the special regime and for withholding purposes, as applicable

Cultural Training for Relocated Staff

Educating your transferees on the business culture and etiquettes of the destination country is of utmost importance to help prevent misunderstandings when doing business dealings or running your company’s day-to-day operations on the foreign soil. Keeping this in mind, we provide a thorough cultural training to your employees where the courses are designed to help them to:

Learn accepted social practices, prevalent business etiquettes, effective management techniques, communication and negotiation styles, and the ways of interpersonal dealings in the destination country
Deal successfully with local people from different walks of life
Avoid culture shocks and interpersonal blunders

Language Training for Relocated Employees

Learning the local language is crucial for running a business abroad. Given that there are many countries where even English is not the prevalent language let alone Mandarin, you may need to get your staff trained in the local languages (at least enough to have regular conversations and conduct daily business operations).

We offer assistance with local language courses for your staff as well as their family members. We research the language schools and private tutors available in their residential area, and accordingly prepare a list from which they can choose the most suitable option based on their availability and requirements.

Our relocation advisers provide seamless social and cultural integration support for your employees in the destination country.

Visas for Executives and Employees Who Are to Relocate

IAS is a well-known and trusted name when it comes to visas and immigration services. Our team of sympathetic immigration lawyers have the required knowledge, expertise and experience to assist your staff moving overseas.

We are here for you for every step of the visa/permit process. You may choose from any of our below packages and/or ask for more customisable services as required:

The Advice Package: Comprehensive advice from our professional immigration lawyers, tailored to suit your needs and situation
The Application Package: Advice regarding eligibility and application process from a dedicated immigration lawyer, followed by actual assistance in completing and submitting the application forms
The Fast Track Package: A premium service offered in case your employees have a tight deadline for submitting their visa/permit applications. In such a scenario, your case becomes a top priority for our lawyers
The Appeal Package: Preparation of any appeal case by experienced and knowledgeable lawyers, and full legal representation in any hearings/tribunals on your behalf

To know more about the services we provide and how we can help you, call us on +44 (0)333 414 9244 today to speak to our team of legal advisers and immigration consultants.

Benefits of our Corporate International Relocation Services

Relocating abroad, especially for work/business, comes with its own challenges. Starting from navigating the destination country’s bureaucratic system, purchasing or renting an accommodation, opening a bank account, social security registration, buying health insurance (where applicable) to the physical move, it takes a lot of paperwork and a thorough understanding of the destination country’s administrative systems and culture.

Your relocation journey with IAS starts with a free, no-obligation consultation, in-person or through video calling, with our experienced and friendly relocation professionals. Once we have thoroughly understood your needs and you are confident to go ahead with us, we will sign the contract with your company.

You will have a dedicated relocation professional assigned to the actual move. They will oversee all the logistics concerned with your employees’ move to the destination country, and will see the process through from the first consultation to them settling into their new life. Our team will provide hands-on assistance with every aspect of the moving process, so that the transferees can concentrate on their business responsibilities.

Our team will provide 24/7 assistance to answer any questions you or your staff may have, or to deal with any issues that may arise in the moving process. With our careful relocation planning and scheduling, and the use of only the highest-quality removals and transport services, we promise to ensure you a complete peace of mind throughout the relocation process.

From China to the World

A distinctive feature of today’s global business scenario is the continuous global mobility of labour, technology and capital. Out of these, industry experts believe the international movement of labour to be the most challenging, given the human element involved. Apart from adhering to strict visa and immigration laws that widely vary from country to country, you have to consider a plethora of factors before relocating your executives and staff internationally.

The world’s second-largest economy by gross domestic product (GDP), China is a major player in the global economy today as well as an international manufacturing hub, playing a key role in the world supply chains. As such, many Chinese companies are now expanding their business footprint in other countries. These expansion plans make international relocation of key executives and specialist staff a basic necessity.

We currently support relocation to 51 countries, including the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, most EU nations, as well as prominent business hubs across Asia and Africa. Our promise of exceptional relocation services in these locations stands on the three following pillars:

Local presence and a bilingual team
Years of experience in successful employee relocation
Extensive partnerships with real estate agents, schools, and local tax and legal experts

A scalable relocation solution for international businesses

Wherever your business or employees are moving to, we help you prepare for all aspects of an overseas move.

Let IAS Help you

International relocation of your key employees is a major business decision. It is at the core of your business expansion strategy. Apart from ensuring your migrated staff are trained enough to successfully run your business on the foreign soil, you also need to keep in mind their welfare and peace of mind while moving abroad.

We at IAS fully understand the business as well as emotional impact of international relocation. With us, you have the freedom to opt for the end-to-end mobility solutions package, or for specific services as you need them. We put our clients in charge of their choices, while we concentrate on providing them with a smooth and hassle-free relocation experience, offering our expert services and guidance all along the way.

Call our corporate relocation experts today on +44 (0)333 414 9244 for more information on our bespoke service offerings..

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The information provided is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. While we make every effort to ensure accuracy, the law may change, and the information may not reflect the most current legal developments. No warranty is given regarding the accuracy or completeness of the information, and we do not accept liability in such cases. We recommend consulting with a qualified lawyer at Immigration Advice Service before making any decisions based on the content provided.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Every country has its own specific immigration policies, laws and guidelines, which your employees and their family members must be aware of while relocating internationally. Moreover, visa rules keep changing from time to time, and it’s crucial to keep oneself updated regarding the changes to avoid any adverse situation abroad.

Employees relocating internationally must learn about the destination country’s work culture, business etiquette, and communication and negotiation norms, to avoid any awkward scenarios that may affect your company operations eventually.

Tax is a complex area for a company relocating employees abroad as well as for the concerned employees. You must keep in mind tax rules of the country of origin, that of the destination country, and international tax laws. Specifically, pay attention to your employee’s tax residency status, worldwide income taxation (if applicable), taxability of relocation benefits, tax treaties, potential double taxation situation, and whether the said relocation is going to be considered a taxable business presence for your company in the destination country.

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