Which non-member-country family members can accompany or join, and what broad rights do they receive?
A spouse, common-law partner, qualifying minor child or parent/adoptive parent of a minor child may apply for Croatian family temporary stay with a sponsor who holds long-term residence in another EEA state and has Croatian temporary stay. The family member must also have prior residence and a joint household with the sponsor in the EEA state, a valid passport, means and health insurance. Article 89(1)(4) permits a holder of family-reunification or partnership stay with that sponsor to work without a separate stay and work permit or work-registration certificate.
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Limits of the record- The family permit and work right require approval of this exact family route; they do not follow automatically from the sponsor’s other-EEA residence card.
- MUP other-EEA long-term resident family stay
Temporary stay of a family member
A family member of a third-country national who has been granted temporary stay as a person with long-term residence in another EEA Member State will be granted temporary stay for the purpose of family reunification if he:
holds a valid foreign travel document,
has been granted residence in another EEA Member State,
has lived in a joint household with the third-country national in another EEA Member State in which the third-country national holds long-term residence,
has means of subsistence,
has health insurance,
has not been forbidden to enter into the Republic of Croatia and stay in the Republic of Croatia, or no alert has been issued in SIS for the purpose of forbidding his entry,
does not pose threat to public policy, national security or public health.
- Article 89(1)(4), NN 133/2020
(1) Bez dozvole za boravak i rad ili potvrde o prijavi rada može raditi državljanin treće zemlje koji u Republici Hrvatskoj ima odobren:
1. privremeni boravak u svrhu spajanja obitelji s hrvatskim državljaninom, državljaninom treće zemlje na dugotrajnom boravištu, stalnom boravku, odobrenom azilu ili supsidijarnoj zaštiti sukladno propisu kojim se uređuje međunarodna zaštita
2. privremeni boravak u svrhu životnog partnerstva s hrvatskim državljaninom, državljaninom treće zemlje na dugotrajnom boravištu, stalnom boravku, azilu ili supsidijarnoj zaštiti sukladno propisu kojim se uređuje međunarodna zaštita
3. privremeni boravak u svrhu spajanja obitelji ili životnog partnerstva s državljaninom treće zemlje kojem je izdana »EU plava karta« ili dozvola za boravak i rad za premještaj unutar društva
4. privremeni boravak u svrhu spajanja obitelji ili životnog partnerstva s državljaninom treće zemlje koji ima odobrenje dugotrajnog boravišta u drugoj državi članici EGP-a
- MUP other-EEA LTR family list, full paragraph
The following persons are considered as family members of a third-country national who has been granted long-term residence in another EEA Member State:
a spouse,
a common law partner,
a minor child common to spouses and common law partners, life partners or informal life partners, and a minor child of each of them, their minor jointly adopted child, or a minor child adopted by either of them who is not married, as well as a minor child of a life or informal life partner or his minor adopted child who is not married,
parents or adoptive parents of a minor child.
