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Extended Family Member Requiring Personal Care for Serious Health Reasons

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Which family relationships qualify?

An 'other family member' may qualify where the EU citizen must provide care because of the family member's serious health problems.

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Limits of the record
  • The page is limited to serious health problems requiring care; it does not establish qualification for other extended relatives.
  • Other family members
    family members for whom the accompanied or joined EU citizen must provide care due to serious health problems.

Who may sponsor or bring the family member, and what immigration/citizenship status must that person hold?

The sponsor is the EU/associated-country citizen being joined and must have the right to stay in Belgium for more than three months. If the sponsor is a student, the page lists only a spouse/registered partner and children as joiners, so this other-family-member route is not established for a student sponsor.

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Limits of the record
  • Confirm associated-country and movement scope and obtain proof of the sponsor's right to stay in Belgium over three months. The student-sponsor warning does not list this other-family-member category.
  • Conditions imposed on the spouse/partner
    prove that the EU citizen has the right to stay in Belgium for more than 3 months (annex 8ter/E card/EU card/annex 19).
  • Family members - student sponsor warning
    If the EU citizen is a student, within the meaning of article 40, §4, paragraph 1, 3°, of the Law of 15 December 1980) he/she may only be joined by his/her spouse or registered partner and by his/her children, or those of his/her spouse or partner.

What is important for proving marriage, partnership, parentage, custody, dependency or another qualifying relationship?

The applicant must prove identity, a serious health problem, that the condition requires third-party care, and that the EU citizen must imperatively and personally provide that care. The sponsor's Belgian stay right over three months must also be proved.

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Limits of the record
  • The page states the required facts but does not define the medical evidence standard or who determines that care must be personal and imperative.

What important financial, accommodation, insurance or maintenance responsibilities apply?

If the sponsor resides on sufficient means, the page requires sponsor-linked health-insurance cover and sufficient sponsor resources, unless the sponsor already has permanent residence. The official page gives no financial threshold.

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Limits of the record
  • Full financial and insurance rules are linked separately; no monetary threshold is stated in this capture.

How does the application work at a high level, what rights does the family member receive, how long does the status last, and how can it become independent or longer-term where officially stated?

Where visa-required movement is covered by Directive 2004/38/EC, the page describes a C entry visa and accelerated assessment; the visa is not a residence card. A stay over 90 days requires a separate municipal family-reunification application. Permit duration, work rights and independent/long-term progression are not stated.

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Limits of the record
  • Directive coverage is case-specific; no residence-card duration, work rights or independent/long-term progression is stated.
  • Application for an entry visa (C visa)
    The only requirement that Belgium can impose on a non-EU foreign national who is a (another) family member of an EU citizen is an entry
  • Special provision - accelerated procedure
    the assessment of the visa application must, as much as possible, be completed within 15 days from the moment when the family member has proved, with documents, that his/her movement is covered by Directive 2004/38/EC.
  • Decision - entry visa
    the issuing of an entry visa under Directive 2004/38/EC does not count as the issuing of a residence card.
  • Application for family reunification
    A family member who wishes to stay in Belgium for more than 90 days in order to live as a family with the EU citizen being accompanied or joined must submit an application for
  • Application for family reunification
    to the municipal administration of the place where he/she resides in Belgium.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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