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Resident Card - Spouse of a Cameroonian Citizen

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Which family relationships qualify?

A foreign national married for at least eighteen (18) months to a Cameroonian citizen receives the resident card by right under Article 21(1) of Law 97/012, provided the marriage still subsists when the card is issued and the Cameroonian spouse has kept Cameroonian nationality. Decree 2023/147, which cites Law 97/012 as modified and completed by Law 2022/015 of 14 July 2022, still lists in Article 20 the spouse of a Cameroonian citizen among resident foreigners, subject to Article 21(1) of Law 97/012.

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  • The official text of Law 2022/015 itself was not captured (prc.cm returned an application error at fetch time); a secondary legal mirror reproduces its Article 1 as amending Articles 10, 11 and 15 of Law 97/012 only, which is consistent with Article 21(1) being untouched but is not itself official proof.

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

The qualifying sponsor is the applicant's spouse, who must be Cameroonian and retain that nationality when the resident card is issued.

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  • The law text does not state a means-of-support, housing, or employment-sponsorship test for this spouse provision.

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

If the marriage was not celebrated by a Cameroonian civil-status officer, the law text requires prior transcription in Cameroon's civil-status registers. It does not provide a complete application-document checklist for this spouse category.

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  • The 2025 card decree's separate checklist for a spouse of a foreign national should not be assumed to govern a spouse of a Cameroonian.

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

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the financial, accommodation, insurance or maintenance responsibilities for this spouse resident card.

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  • The absence of a means test in Article 21 does not establish that no other administrative document is required.

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?

For a foreign national married for at least eighteen (18) months to a Cameroonian citizen, this provision grants a resident card rather than a temporary family-accompaniment visa. The law gives resident cards a ten-year renewable validity, and the 2025 decree also states ten years. The official source does not state the spouse-specific filing and renewal procedure or the rights attached to the card.

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  • The current official consolidated law and spouse-specific card checklist were not obtained.

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

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