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N-M — EU/EEA/Swiss person with sufficient means

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Which citizenship, status or regional agreement creates the person's right to move/reside?

The right rests on EU citizenship: an EU citizen has the right to move to any EU country to live, work, study, look for a job or retire, under the EU free movement directive. The official source does not state the position of EEA and Swiss nationals.

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  • Your Europe is EU-level guidance; the Greek implementing act (P.D. 106/2007) and Greece-specific formalities (country selector loads by JavaScript) were not captured.
  • The captured pages address EU citizens; EEA and Swiss nationals are not expressly covered by these slices.

Under which circumstances can the person reside: worker, self-employed, student, jobseeker, self-funded person or another recognised basis?

The person resides as an economically inactive (self-funded) person: settling without work or study requires sufficient resources for oneself and one's family during the stay and comprehensive health insurance.

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Limits of the record
  • Your Europe is EU-level guidance; the Greek implementing act (P.D. 106/2007) and Greece-specific formalities (country selector loads by JavaScript) were not captured.
  • The captured pages address EU citizens; EEA and Swiss nationals are not expressly covered by these slices.

What entry, registration or residence-document formalities remain?

No residence document can be required in the first 3 months (some countries require reporting presence on arrival). After 3 months registration may be required with a registration certificate; documents: valid ID/passport, proof of comprehensive health insurance and proof of self-support without social assistance (resources from any source, including a third person).

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Limits of the record
  • Your Europe is EU-level guidance; the Greek implementing act (P.D. 106/2007) and Greece-specific formalities (country selector loads by JavaScript) were not captured.
  • The captured pages address EU citizens; EEA and Swiss nationals are not expressly covered by these slices.
  • https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/residence-rights/inactive-citizens/index_en.htm
    During the first 3 months of your stay in your new country, as an EU citizen, you cannot be required to apply for a residence document confirming your right to live there - although in some countries you may have to report your presence upon arrival. After 3 months in your new country, you may be required to register your residence with the relevant authority (often the town hall or local police station), and to be issued with a registration certificate. You will need a valid identity card or passport and: proof of comprehensive health insurance proof you can support yourself without needing social assistance benefits: resources may come from any source, including from a third person.

Which non-member-country family members can accompany or join, and what broad rights do they receive?

For the N-M self-sufficient-person route, the reviewed Your Europe guidance expressly confirms that a non-EU spouse of an EU pensioner residing in another EU country can stay if the EU citizen has sufficient income without income support and comprehensive health insurance for the whole family; it extends that page’s information to children and grandchildren. Its separate other-family guidance says pensioners or students must show family income and comprehensive insurance, and that relatives or partners should request a registration certificate or residence card within three months after arrival. These are EU-level examples; the captured passages do not establish every eligible non-EU family relationship or the exact Greek document process for a non-pensioner N-M sponsor.

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Limits of the record
  • The captured passages expressly address EU pensioners and students, not every self-sufficient EU/EEA/Swiss sponsor represented by the N-M catalogue route; this answer does not extend those examples without evidence.
  • Greek implementing rules under P.D. 106/2007, Greece-specific card authority/form and rights of non-EU family members beyond the cited residence example were not established by these captures.
  • The cited Your Europe passages do not expressly cover EEA or Swiss sponsors; those scopes remain unresolved for this answer.

When do permanent/long-term rights arise and what continuity, absence or retention conditions matter?

Permanent residence is acquired automatically after 5 continuous years of legal residence meeting the conditions, giving equal treatment and stronger protection against expulsion; a document certifying it can be requested. Continuity tolerates absences under 6 months a year, military service and one 12-month absence for important reasons; the right can be lost after more than 2 consecutive years abroad.

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Limits of the record
  • Your Europe is EU-level guidance; the Greek implementing act (P.D. 106/2007) and Greece-specific formalities (country selector loads by JavaScript) were not captured.
  • The captured pages address EU citizens; EEA and Swiss nationals are not expressly covered by these slices.
  • https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/residence-rights/inactive-citizens/index_en.htm
    If you have lived legally, meeting the conditions to stay in another EU country for a continuous period of 5 years, you automatically acquire the right of permanent residence there. This means that you can stay in the country as long as you want, you are entitled to be treated as a national of that country and you enjoy more protection against deportation. You can apply for a document certifying permanent residence. Your continuity of residence is not affected by: temporary absences (less than 6 months per year) longer absences for compulsory military service one absence of 12 consecutive months, for important reasons such as pregnancy and childbirth, serious illness, work, vocational training or a posting to another country. You can lose your right to permanent residence if you live outside the country for more than 2 consecutive years.

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

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