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Family Reunification with a Digital Nomad

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Explore the five recorded questions, answers and sources for this pathway.

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Which family relationships qualify?

The digital nomad’s close family members may apply to join only after the sponsor has been granted digital-nomad temporary stay. The statutory close-family list includes a spouse, common-law partner and qualifying minor children of the partners, including specified adopted children. The MUP page explains common-law partners as together for more than three years if childless, or shorter when they share a child. Other Article 64 categories are tied to narrower sponsor types and are not established for this digital-nomad route here.

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Limits of the record
  • The page does not itself settle whether another relative could qualify on exceptional personal or serious humanitarian grounds in an individual case.
  • MUP digital nomad close family and timing
    Close family members of a digital nomad who has been granted temporary stay in the Republic of Croatia may join them in the Republic of Croatia  (see temporary stay for the purpose of family reunification ). This includes “common law marriage” partners (non married couples who have been together for longer than 3 years in a childless couple, and shorter if they have a child together or in case of conclusion of marriage) (see temporary stay for the purpose of family reunification ). The applications of close family members for granting temporary stay for the purpose of family reunification submitted before the third country national with whom family reunification is requested in the Republic of Croatia has been granted temporary stay for the purpose of stay of digital nomads shall be rejected.
  • Article 64(1)(1)-(3), NN 133/2020
    Članak 64. (1) Član uže obitelji u smislu ovoga Zakona je: 1. bračni drug 2. izvanbračni drug 3. maloljetno zajedničko dijete bračnih i izvanbračnih drugova, životnih partnera ili neformalnih životnih partnera te maloljetno dijete svakog od njih, njihovo maloljetno zajednički posvojeno dijete odnosno maloljetno posvojeno dijete svakog od njih koje nije u braku, kao i maloljetno dijete životnog ili neformalnog životnog partnera ili njegovo maloljetno posvojeno dijete koje nije u braku

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

The sponsor is a digital nomad who has already been granted temporary stay in Croatia; close family members may then join them.

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    Close family members of a digital nomad who has been granted temporary stay in the Republic of Croatia may join them in the Republic of Croatia  (see temporary stay for the purpose of family reunification ).

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

A marriage is proven by an extract from the marriage register. A common-law partnership is proven by the child's birth-register extract or adoption decision, or by a birth-register extract/single-status certificate/partnership-register extract, the partners' statement, witness statements, proof of at least three years' shared household, or other evidence of the partnership and the intention to continue it. A parent-child relationship is proven by a birth-register extract or adoption decision.

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Limits of the record
  • taken from the general family-reunification page, which the digital-nomad page cross-references; nothing nomad-specific
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    The following must be submitted as proof of marriage: - extract from the marriage register. The following documents must be submitted as proof of common law partnership: - extract from the birth register for a child common to both partners or a decision of the competent authority on the adoption of the child, or - extract from the birth register or a single status certificate, or an extract from the register of common law partnerships, a statement made by the common law partners on their life together, statements made by witnesses about the existence and the duration of the common law partnership, proof of living together in a shared household in the Republic of Croatia or abroad for at least three years immediately prior to submitting the application, or some other proof indicating to the existence of a common law partnership and the intention to continue living together. The following documents must be submitted as proof of a parent-child relationship: – extract from the birth register or a decision of the competent authority on the adoption of the child.

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

The digital nomad sponsor must show at least 2.5 of the previous year’s average monthly net salaries; this base required amount increases by 10% of the average monthly net salary for each additional family member or life/informal life partner. Family temporary-stay applicants are also subject to the general Article 59 conditions, including means of subsistence and health insurance.

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Limits of the record
  • The cited provisions do not prescribe a universal accommodation amount or document for this family route; address registration may be governed separately.
  • Article 59(1)(3)-(4), NN 133/2020
    Članak 59. (1) Državljaninu treće zemlje odobrit će se privremeni boravak ako: 1. dokaže svrhu privremenog boravka 2. ima valjanu stranu putnu ispravu 3. ima sredstva za uzdržavanje 4. ima zdravstveno osiguranje
  • MUP nomad means base and family uplift, full paragraph
    third-country nationals who are regulating their temporary stay as digital nomads are required to have the amount corresponding to at least 2.5 average monthly net salaries paid for the previous year , in accordance with the official data published by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics. This amount is increased by 10% of the average monthly net salary for each additional family member or life partner or informal life partner.

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?

A close family member's family-reunification application filed before the digital nomad has been granted temporary stay is rejected. The official source does not state the family member's rights, the duration of the status or any path to independent or longer-term status.

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Limits of the record
  • the family member's rights, duration and any independent or longer-term status are not stated on the digital-nomad page
  • a new digital-nomad application, including after family reunification with the nomad, can only be filed 6 months after the previous stay expires (separate sentence)
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    The applications of close family members for granting temporary stay for the purpose of family reunification submitted before the third country national with whom family reunification is requested in the Republic of Croatia has been granted temporary stay for the purpose of stay of digital nomads shall be rejected.

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

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