Temporary residence permit for family reunification

Route status

Active as of 2026-08-25^[5]

Open to new applications under the rules recorded below.

Residency route facts

Identity

Identity
Official name (local)	Dovoljenje za začasno prebivanje zaradi združitve družine as of 2026-08-25^[5]^[7] The statutory name. Article 47(6) of ZTuj-2, as replaced by article 29 of ZTuj-2I, uses these words for the permit; the Ministry's page is headed by the right rather than by the permit ('Združitev družine in pravica do celovitosti družine').
Official name (English)	Temporary residence permit for family reunification as of 2026-08-25^[5] Translation; no official English name is published.
Legal basis	Zakon o tujcih (ZTuj-2), 47. člen, prvi in šesti odstavek kot ju je nadomestil 29. člen ZTuj-2I (Uradni list RS, št. 32/25) as of 2026-08-25^[5]^[7] The fourth sentence of article 47(1) and the whole of article 47(6) were read in full in ZTuj-2I; the rest of article 47, including the definition of family members in paragraph 3 and the means mechanics, was read at one remove through the Ministry's page.
Instrument type	residence permit as of 2026-08-25^[5] The card records the permit type as 'družinski član'.

Who can apply

Who can apply
Nationals not served by this route	EU, EEA as of 2026-08-25^[3]^[4]
Minimum age	Not established from a qualifying source Not established. The Ministry's page states no minimum age for a spouse; the age limits it does state are ceilings on children's permits rather than floors on applicants.
Criminal-record condition	Not established from a qualifying source Not established. The Ministry lists verified absence of security grounds among the conditions but does not list a criminal-record certificate among the documents for this permit.

Permit terms

Permit terms
Initial duration	up to 2 years as of 2026-08-25^[5]^[7] Article 47(6) as replaced: issued with the validity of the sponsor's permit, or until it expires, but for not more than two years. Two special cases in the same paragraph: a family member of a foreigner holding a permanent residence permit gets two years, and a family member of a Blue Card holder gets the same period as the Blue Card.
How the initial term is set	matches the sponsor's permit
Renewable	Yes as of 2026-08-25^[5]^[7]
Renewal duration	up to 3 years as of 2026-08-25^[5]^[7] Article 47(6) as replaced: extended for the same period as the sponsor's permit, but for not more than three years. The same paragraph allows extension even where the sponsor's own permit is valid for less than a year, and caps a minor child's permit and a minor's parent's permit at the child's majority.
Work rights	authorisation required as of 2026-08-25^[1]^[2] Not free access. The Employment Service states that holders of a residence permit for a family member must obtain an informativni list through an employer, after a labour-market test, before working; and its own enumeration of the categories with free access to the labour market lists family reunification with a SLOVENIAN citizen but not family reunification with a third-country permit holder. Read as a sourced absence off a closed list.

Permanent residence and citizenship

Permanent residence and citizenship
Counts toward permanent residence	Not established from a qualifying source Not established; the Ministry's permanent-residence page names study permits as the half-weight basis and does not enumerate the rest.

Requirements

Requirements
Who can sponsor	permanent resident, temporary permit holder, specific permits as of 2026-08-25^[5]^[7] Article 47(1): the right belongs to a foreigner residing on a permanent residence permit and to a foreigner who has resided in Slovenia for the last year on a temporary residence permit issued with a validity of at least one year; the fourth sentence as replaced by ZTuj-2I article 29 adds the classes exempt from that wait. 'citizen' is deliberately not included: a family member of a Slovenian or EU citizen is reunited under article 128 on a different permit, which is recorded separately as si-druzinski-clan-slo-eu-drzavljana.
Eligible relations	spouse, registered partner, unmarried partner, minor child, adult dependent child, parent as of 2026-08-25^[5] Article 47(3) of ZTuj-2 defines family members as the spouse, the partner in a registered or civil partnership or a partner in a long-lasting life community; the foreigner's minor unmarried children; the minor unmarried children of that spouse or partner; the parents of a minor foreigner with whom the foreigner lived in a family community before coming to Slovenia; and adult unmarried children and parents of the foreigner or of the spouse or partner whom they are obliged to support under the law of their state of nationality. Article 47(4) allows the authority to treat a further person as a family member by exception.
Sponsor income requirement	1 × basic amount of minimum income per month measured over 6 months as of 2026-08-25^[5]
Sponsor accommodation requirement	No as of 2026-08-25^[5] No accommodation or housing condition appears anywhere in the Ministry's enumeration of the conditions or of the documents for this permit – which is notable, because the same portal does state an employer accommodation declaration as a condition on the posted-worker, intra-corporate-transfer and traineeship permits, so the absence here is against a background of the portal stating such conditions where they exist. Sourced absence.
Sponsor waiting period	at least 1 year as of 2026-08-25^[5]^[7] The sponsor must have resided in Slovenia for at least one year on a temporary residence permit and must at the same time hold one issued for at least one year. Time spent on an administrative unit's certificate of a filed application – for a first permit, a further permit or an extension – counts towards it. The waiting period does not apply at all to the classes named in the fourth sentence of article 47(1) as replaced: EU Blue Card holders, research and higher-education permit holders, holders under article 38.b, intra-corporate transferees under articles 45.b and 45.d, holders whose residence is in the interest of Slovenia, digital nomads, persons of Slovenian descent under article 48, and former beneficiaries of temporary protection, and – per the Ministry – both parents reuniting with a minor child.
Pre-entry language test	No as of 2026-08-25^[5] The Slovenian-language condition the Ministry publishes attaches to the EXTENSION of the family member's permit, not to its issue – it is recorded as a renewal requirement above. No language test is required before entry or at first issue.
Sponsor and relation matrix	Sponsor status: temporary permit holder Relation: minor child Resulting condition: The one-year prior-residence condition does not apply where both parents reunite with a minor child and both hold a temporary residence permit, or where the parents do not live together or the child has only one parent and it is the parent to whom the child is entrusted. Sponsor status: specific permits Relation: spouse Resulting condition: No waiting period for an EU Blue Card holder, a researcher or higher-education worker, a posted worker from a third country, an intra-corporate transferee, a digital nomad, a person of Slovenian descent under article 48, or a foreigner whose residence is in the interest of Slovenia (which requires the competent authority's opinion). Sponsor status: permanent resident Relation: spouse Resulting condition: A family member of a foreigner holding a permanent residence permit receives a permit valid for two years, extended for up to three.

Process

Process
Where to apply from	either as of 2026-08-25^[5]
Statutory processing time	Not established from a qualifying source Not established.
Fees	Kind: application Amount: EUR 50 one-off as of 2026-08-25^[6] Charged per: application Paid by: applicant Condition: Taksa za izdajo dovoljenja za začasno prebivanje Kind: card Amount: EUR 26.51 one-off as of 2026-08-25^[6] Cost of the permit card where it is served personally by post. Charged per: applicant Paid by: applicant Condition: Strošek tiskovine v primeru osebnega vročanja po pošti Kind: card Amount: EUR 15.47 one-off as of 2026-08-25^[6] Cost of the permit card where it is collected in person at the authority. Charged per: applicant Paid by: applicant Condition: Strošek tiskovine v primeru osebnega vročanja pri organu
Quota	Quota exists: No as of 2026-08-25^[5] No Employment Service consent is part of this permit's procedure; the consent a family member may later need in order to work is a separate step attaching to the employment, not to the permit.

Physical presence

Physical presence
registration only	to keep the permit as of 2026-08-25^[3] Temporary residence must be registered with the administrative unit within eight days of entry, of service of the document, or of taking up residence.

Family inclusion

Family inclusion
Family members may be included	Not applicable This route is itself the family-reunification permit; the sponsor's own permit is what carries the reunification right, and that is recorded on each sponsoring route.

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Verification

Verification
Sources cited	7
of which official (tier 1)	7
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] Delo tujcev z dovoljenjem za prebivanje
Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-25
[3] 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
[4] 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
[5] 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
[6] 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
[7] 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