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Ordinary Stay Permit after Five Years of Cohabitation

San MarinoLong-term residence

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What exact status does accumulated residence lead to?

Sustained cohabitation leads to the ordinary stay permit itself: a person cohabiting (more uxorio, or for solidarity/mutual-aid purposes) under a cohabitation permit may be granted the ordinary stay permit once five continuous years have passed.

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  • Art. 13(10-quinquies)
    Il permesso di soggiorno ordinario può essere rilasciato a persona convivente di cui al comma 1, lettere a) e a-bis), dell’articolo 15 decorso il periodo di cinque anni continuativi.

What qualifying residence period is required and when does the period begin?

For conversion of a cohabitation permit into an ordinary stay permit, captured Law 118/2010 Article 13(10-quinquies) says the ordinary permit may be issued to a cohabitant under Article 15(1)(a) or (a-bis) after five continuous years. The provision states the length but does not explicitly identify the calendar starting event for that continuous period in the captured text; it should not be silently equated with the different Article 16(2) registered-residence clock, which expressly starts on issue of an ordinary permit.

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  • The precise start date and treatment of interruptions for the cohabitation route are not specified in Article 13(10-quinquies). This is a distinct route from Article 16(2) registered residence.
  • The official coordinated text is explicitly updated to 3 June 2025 and is marked non-authentic by its publisher; the current index still links this exact ZIP/PDF on 25 September 2026. A bounded later-amendment search found no direct change to the cited Articles 13–16; this does not prove that no later law exists.

Which types of residence count fully, partially or not at all where the official rules specify this?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm which types of residence count towards the qualifying period.

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Limits of the record
  • Searched Arts. 13 and 15 for what residence counts toward this conversion: nothing beyond the Art. 13(10-quinquies) sentence (protected, r1/r5). The five-years material of the old answer is r2 material and is also inside the protected citation.

What absence/continuity rules affect accumulation of the qualifying residence period?

Loss of the cohabitant status under Art. 15(1)(a) or (a-bis) interrupts the cohabitation permit, and the stay permit and the Art. 15 permits are revoked if habitual dwelling in San Marino has ceased.

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Limits of the record
  • The law does not state expressly how an absence or an interruption affects the count of the five continuous years; no tolerated-absence rule is given.

What other major conditions apply, how is the status obtained, and what renewal, document-validity, retention or loss rules matter?

For conversion after cohabitation, Article 13(10-quinquies) of the captured Law 118/2010 permits an ordinary stay permit after five continuous years as a cohabitant within Article 15(1)(a) or (a-bis). Article 15(3) gives the underlying cohabitation permit for one year, renewable for an equal period; Article 15(4) ends that permit when cohabitant status is lost. Article 13(5) states the general ordinary-permit duration is one year, renewable at expiry within a maximum of thirty days. Article 13(1) separately links duration of an ordinary permit granted for family reunification to the first family member’s residence. The text does not expressly resolve whether this separate family duration applies to this five-year cohabitation conversion.

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Limits of the record
  • Article 13(10-quinquies) does not state the precise filing channel or documents for conversion, and the captured law does not expressly reconcile Article 13(1) family-linked duration with Article 13(5) general duration for this conversion.
  • The official coordinated text is explicitly updated to 3 June 2025 and is marked non-authentic by its publisher; the current index still links this exact ZIP/PDF on 25 September 2026. A bounded later-amendment search found no direct change to the cited Articles 13–16; this does not prove that no later law exists.

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

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