Residence permit for a non-EU family member of a Slovenian or EU citizen
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Dovoljenje za prebivanje za družinskega člana slovenskega ali EU državljana, ki ni državljan EU as of 2026-08-25[3] The Ministry's published page heading. |
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| Official name (English) | Residence permit for a non-EU family member of a Slovenian or EU citizen as of 2026-08-25[2] GOV.SI's own English heading for this permit, so an official English name rather than a translation. |
| Legal basis | Zakon o tujcih (ZTuj-2), 128. člen as of 2026-08-25[3] |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-08-25[3] |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU as of 2026-08-25[2][3] The permit exists precisely for a family member who is NOT an EU national; an EU-national family member registers residence instead. EEA is deliberately not listed here: GOV.SI states that the provisions of the Foreigners Act applying to EU citizens also apply to EEA nationals and their family members, which puts an EEA family member on the registration track rather than this one, but the permit's own page frames the exclusion in EU terms only and nothing wider is asserted. |
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| Minimum age | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. |
| Criminal-record condition | Yes as of 2026-08-25[2] GOV.SI states that the application must be supported by documents proving health insurance, sufficient economic resources and no criminal conviction in the home country. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | 5 years as of 2026-08-25[3] Issued for a period of five years with the possibility of extension. This is the longest first-issue term of any permit in the Slovenian record and is recorded as exact because the Ministry states a flat figure rather than a ceiling. |
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| How the initial term is set | fixed |
| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-08-25[3] |
| Renewal duration | Not established from a qualifying source Not established; the Ministry states that extension is possible and gives no period. |
| Work rights | full as of 2026-08-25[1] The Employment Service's enumeration of the categories with free access to the Slovenian labour market includes a third-country national residing on the basis of temporary residence for family reunification with a Slovenian citizen, and family members of EU/EEA/Swiss citizens holding a family-member temporary residence permit or a long-stay visa. Free access means work, employment or self-employment without consent to a single permit or Blue Card and without a seasonal work permit, unless a treaty binding Slovenia provides otherwise. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. |
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Requirements
| Who can sponsor | citizen as of 2026-08-25[2][3] A Slovenian citizen or a citizen of another EU member state. this sponsor class lives here and not on si-zdruzitev-druzine, which is the article 47 route for sponsors who are themselves foreigners. |
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| Eligible relations | spouse, registered partner, unmarried partner, minor child, adult dependent child, parent, grandparent, other dependent as of 2026-08-25[2] GOV.SI's list is materially wider than article 47(3)'s: the spouse or partner in a civil partnership or union; children up to 21; the children of the spouse or partner up to 21; children over 21 and older relatives whom the EU citizen is obliged to maintain or actually maintains; the same for the spouse's or partner's children over 21 and older relatives; and older relatives of the EU citizen. It adds three further categories that map to other_dependent: a person who was a member of the EU citizen's household in another member state, a person the citizen maintains under the law of their state of nationality, a person personally cared for by the citizen for medical reasons, and the partner in a long-term relationship. The 21-year threshold is a feature of this route and of no other in the Slovenian record. |
| Sponsor income requirement | 2 × average monthly net salary in the Republic of Slovenia per month as of 2026-08-25[3] The Ministry states the means condition on this permit as twice the average monthly net salary in the Republic of Slovenia – a markedly higher figure than the basic-minimum-income test that article 33(3) applies to every other permit, and the same base the digital nomad route uses. It is disapplied in the case the same page names: the spouse of a Slovenian citizen is exempt from proving subsistence and health insurance where the Slovenian or EU citizen is employed or self-employed, which GOV.SI states in the same terms for EU citizens exercising free movement. |
| Sponsor accommodation requirement | Not established from a qualifying source Not established; no accommodation condition is stated. |
| Sponsor waiting period | 0 months as of 2026-08-25[3] None. The right attaches to the citizen sponsor's status rather than to any period of prior residence, and the family member may apply at any point within the 90 days of visa-free residence after entry. |
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Process
| Where to apply from | in-country only as of 2026-08-25[3] The Ministry states it as an exception to the ordinary rule: the application is made only at a Slovenian administrative unit and never at a diplomatic mission. A non-EU family member may reside in Slovenia without a permit for 90 days from entry and must apply before that period expires. |
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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[2] 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 | 4 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 4 |
| 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] Prost dostop na trg dela
Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [2] 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 - [3] Dovoljenje za prebivanje za družinskega člana slovenskega ali EU državljana, ki ni državljan EU
Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve in javno upravo · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2026-08-12 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [4] 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