Long stay visa

In order to obtain long-term residence right you should have had continuous residence in Romania over the past five years. Residence is considered continuous when the period of absence from the Romanian territory is less than 6 consecutive months and does not exceeding a total of 10 months and if against you no action has been ordered for removal from the national territory.

Length of residence for study purposes is calculated at half for long-term residence and residence under short-stay visa, diplomatic or service visa is not consider and nor the one obtained for carrying out activities as seasonal workers.

See complete list of the requirements for permanent residence and the exceptions thereto.

You can not get a long term residence right in Romania if you fall into one of these categories: you have a temporary residence right for studies, you are an asylum seeker or recipient of temporary humanitarian protection or temporary protection of the Romanian state, you are in Romania with short-stay visa or visa / residence right conferred by diplomatic or service visa.

The first step to establish domicile in Romania is getting the long term residence right. In this regard you must submit the following documents:
– application;
– border crossing document (passport, travel document, etc..) in copy and original;
– proofing documents on the living space (original and copy);
– evidence of social and health insurance;
– evidence of themeans of support (family members of Romanian citizens are exempted);
– criminal record certificate issued by the Romanian authorities;
– civil status documents (if appropriate);
– taxes.

You may apply for long term residence right for your child only in case you’ve got this right yourself.
– application;
– border crossing document (passport, travel document, etc..) in copy and original;
– proofing documents of the living space (original and copy);
– translated and legalized/ apostille birth certificate (depending on the issuing state of the document);
– authenticated consent of the parent that has no long term residence right in Romania;
– taxes.

Applications for long term residence right will be settled within maximum 6 months and for objective reasons this period may be extended by 3 more months with notice to the applicant.

You will be answered to in writing within 15 working days of the application settlement.

If the answer is positive, within 30 days of receipt of communication, you must submit the documents required for issuing the long-term residence permit to the territorial units of the General Inspectorate for Immigration where application was filed.

Refusal of granting long-term residence, as well as the reasons behind it is communicated in writing to the applicant within 15 working days from the application settlement.

Refusal of granting long-term residence can be appealed within 30 days from the communication, with Bucharest Court of Appeal.

Refusal of granting long-term residence produces no legal effect on the residence rights of the Applicant.

– application;
– border crossing document (passport, travel document, etc..) in copy and original;
– proofing documents of the living space (original and copy);
– taxes.

– application;
– proofing documents of the living space (original and copy);
– taxes

If you hold a long-term residence permit in Romania you receive equal treatment with Romanian citizens under the law, as follows:

• in Romania you can work without work permit, based on an individual employment contract approved by the Labor Inspectorate.
• You have access to all forms and levels of education and training, including providing scholarships, education and recognition of equivalence of diplomas, certificates, certificates of competency and professional skills, you enjoy security and social protection, health care and social benefit of income tax deductions and tax exemptions, you have access to goods and services, including obtaining housing, freedom of association and affiliation and membership of a trade or professional union.

Long-term residence permit shall cease: in case of cancellation or revocation, for obtaining a long term residence right in another State, in case of absence from the Romanian territory for a period exceeding 12 consecutive months, except in the situation that, at this time, you received a temporary stay in a member state of the European Union, in case of absence from the Romanian territory for more than 6 consecutive years, even if in this period you have received a temporary stay in a member state of the European Union, on request, upon attainment of the Romanian citizenship or in case of absence from the territory of EU, the European Economic Area or Swiss Confederation Member States, for more than 2 consecutive years, of the long-term resident, who holds a long-term residence permit with the words “Former EU blue Card holder”, or of his family members who were granted long-term resident status.

In case, upon termination of the long term residence right, you are in Romania, within 30 days from the communication, you can apply for a temporary residence permit for the purposes and under the conditions provided in Ordinance 194/2002 as amended and supplemented (details in section Legislation).

If the long-term residence right will cease under par.(3) letter b) or c) of Ordinance 194/2002 with its subsequent amendments, you may be granted a new long term residence permit, under the conditions of the emergency ordinance, after a legal and continuous residence in Romania for 12 months.

Long-term residence right of a former EU Blue Card holder does not cease if the alien can prove that it was absent from the territory of the EU, the European Economic Area or Swiss Confederation Member States, to exercise economic activity as an employed or self-employed person to perform an activity on a voluntary basis or study in the country of origin.