Romanian long-term residence — family member of a Romanian citizen

You can get this right as a family member of a Romanian citizen, as well as for other purposes of stay in Romania (eg work, commercial activities, family reunification, etc.)The long-term residence permit is valid for 10 years if you are a family member of a Romanian citizen and is valid for 5 years if you stay in Romania for other purposes provided by law.

In order to obtain the long-term right to stay, you must have had a continuous stay in Romania during the last 5 years.

The length of stay for study purposes is calculated at half for the long-term residence and the residence under short-stay visa, under the diplomatic or employment visa or the one obtained for the pursuing of seasonal worker or au pair worker activities cannot be taken into account.

You cannot get a long term right of residence in Romania if you fall into one of these categories: you have a right of temporary residence for studies, you are an asylum seeker or a beneficiary of temporary humanitarian protection or you enjoy temporary protection of the Romanian state, you are in Romania with short-stay visa or visa / right to stay conferred by diplomatic or work visa, you have a right of residence for work as a seasonal worker or an au pair worker.

The stay is considered a continuous period if the absence from the Romanian territory is inferior to 6 consecutive months and does not exceed a total of 10 months and if no action of removal from the national territory was ordered against you.

Also, the period during which you have traveled abroad pursuing activities of international transportation and for which you can present written evidence in this regard is not considered absence from Romania.

The steps are: request the right of residence for a long period from the territorial units of the General Inspectorate for Immigration in the county where you live, and if the answer is positive, submit the documents for obtaining the long-term residence permit.

of financial means of support (except for family members of Romanian citizens)

Applications for the long term right to stay will be resolved in 6 months, and for objective reasons this period may be extended by another 3 months, with the knowledge of the applicant. You will receive the answer in writing within 15 days from settlement of the request.

If the answer is positive, within 30 days from receiving the notification, you must submit the necessary documents for the issuing of the long-term residence permit to the territorial units of the General Inspectorate for Immigration where the demand was recorded.

– in case of absence from the Romanian territory for a period exceeding 12 consecutive months, except if during that time you benefited from a right of temporary residence in a Member State of the European Union