Temporary residence permit for a family member of a researcher
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Dovoljenje za začasno prebivanje družinskega člana raziskovalca as of 2026-08-25[2] The Ministry's published page heading. |
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| Official name (English) | Temporary residence permit for a family member of a researcher as of 2026-08-25[2] Translation; no official English name is published. |
| Legal basis | Zakon o tujcih (ZTuj-2), 38.c člen, read with 38., 38.a in 38.b člen as of 2026-08-25[2] |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-08-25[2] The card records the type as 'družinski član raziskovalca', or 'družinski član raziskovalca – mobilnost' where the researcher is on long-term transfer from another member state. |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA as of 2026-08-25[1][3] |
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| Minimum age | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. |
| Criminal-record condition | Not established from a qualifying source Not established; no criminal-record certificate is listed on this page. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | Not established from a qualifying source No figure of its own: issued for the validity of the researcher's permit, or for the duration of the researcher's mobility where the researcher comes from another EU member state. No absolute cap is stated on this page. |
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| How the initial term is set | matches the sponsor's permit |
| Renewable | Not established from a qualifying source Not stated in terms. The application form is headed 'Prošnja za izdajo ali podaljšanje', so an extension procedure exists; no duration is published for it. |
| Work rights | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. The Ministry's page for this permit says nothing about work either way. The general answer for family members – an informativni list after a labour-market test – is not simply carried across, because this is one of the categories the same portal exempts from the survival-level Slovenian condition and it is not the article 47 route. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. |
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Requirements
| Who can sponsor | specific permits as of 2026-08-25[2] Researchers of type A (a Slovenian permit for work in research, higher and tertiary education) and type B (a long-term intra-EU mobility permit issued in Slovenia). Type C, a researcher on short-term transfer, cannot sponsor: the Ministry states that the permit is neither needed nor issued in that case. |
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| Eligible relations | spouse, unmarried partner, minor child as of 2026-08-25[2] The page's own definition, recorded as published and narrower than article 47(3)'s: the researcher's spouse or unmarried partner, and minor unmarried children of the researcher or of the spouse or partner. The page adds 'in certain cases other family members, where the law so provides' without naming them, so nothing further is recorded. |
| Sponsor waiting period | 0 months as of 2026-08-25[6] None. The fourth sentence of article 47(1) as replaced by ZTuj-2I article 29 names holders of a permit for work in research, higher and tertiary education, and holders under article 38.b, among those who may reunite family members with no limit tied to residence length or permit validity. |
| Pre-entry language test | No as of 2026-08-25[4] None at issue, and the Ministry's exception list to the survival-level Slovenian condition at extension names family members of a research and higher-education permit holder and of a researcher on long-term transfer. |
Process
| Where to apply from | either as of 2026-08-25[2] The researcher's and the family member's applications are decided together where they are filed together. |
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| Statutory processing time | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. |
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Physical presence
| registration only | to keep the permit as of 2026-08-25[1] Temporary residence must be registered with the administrative unit within eight days of entry, of service of the document, or of taking up residence. |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Not applicable This route is itself a family-member permit. |
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Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 6 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 6 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2026-08-25 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-25 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-26 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Entry and residence
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo (GOV.SI) · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2026-06-12 · Accessed 2026-08-25 · Archived copy - [2] Dovoljenje za začasno prebivanje družinskega člana raziskovalca
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2026-08-12 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [3] Dovoljenje za prebivanje na podlagi dela (kazalo)
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2026-01-15 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [4] Združitev družine in pravica do celovitosti družine
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2026-08-13 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [5] Enotna dovoljenja (eBDP) – Stroški
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo (SPOT) · fee schedule · Tier 1 · Published 2024-03-27 · Accessed 2026-08-25 · Archived copy - [6] Zakon o spremembah in dopolnitvah Zakona o tujcih (ZTuj-2I)
Državni zbor Republike Slovenije / Uradni list Republike Slovenije · gazette · Tier 1 · Published 2025-05-06 · Accessed 2026-08-25