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Accompanying Family of a Residence and Work Permit Holder

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Which family relationships qualify?

This route is for a spouse, registered or cohabiting partner, or child under 18 of a person who has been granted a residence and work permit in Greenland (the sponsor), applying as an accompanying family member.

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  • The captured official page does not state every possible edge case for this question; independent review remains pending.
  • official SIRI/nyidanmark.dk page captured text
    If you are a spouse, registered or cohabiting partner, or a child under the age of 18 of a person who has been granted a residence and work permit in Greenland (the sponsor), you can apply for residence permit as an accompanying family member.

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

The sponsor is a person who has been granted a residence permit in Greenland, usually the family member who is in Greenland on the basis of work.

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

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the evidence needed to prove the family relationship.

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  • Not established: the correction failed a second independent check (NAO_SUSTENTA: Spouse/partner proof now cited, but 'child under 18' is not in C2 (the under-18 heading is in the file, line 109, not cited).)

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

The accompanying family member must be able to support themselves and their family during the stay and may not receive public benefits; receiving them can lead to revocation of the permit. The official source does not state an accommodation or insurance requirement for this route.

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  • The page states no accommodation or insurance requirement for this route; its silence is not confirmation that none applies.

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?

If the sponsor's permit is based on work, the accompanying family member's permit is granted for up to 2 years at a time; if the sponsor's permit is based on something other than work (e.g. studies), it is granted for up to 1 year at a time. The official source does not state the application process, the family member's rights or a path to longer-term status.

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  • The captured official page does not state every possible edge case for this question; independent review remains pending.
  • official SIRI/nyidanmark.dk page captured text
    If your sponsor has a residence permit based on work in Greenland, you can only get a residence permit for 2 years, and the residence permit can be extended for 2 years at a time.
  • official SIRI/nyidanmark.dk page captured text
    If your sponsor has a residence permit based on something other than work, e.g. studies, you can only get a residence permit for 1 year, and the residence permit can be extended for 1 year at a time.

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

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