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Choose the situation that best matches yours. Select one answer.
1. Work in Belgium or hire a foreign worker
You are an employee, highly qualified, or your profile relates to a shortage occupation. Or you are an employer in Belgium wishing to recruit such a profile.
2. Start a business, invest, or welcome a foreign associate
You want to work as a self-employed person, create your company or invest in an existing company. Or your company is established in Belgium and wants to welcome an active foreign associate.
3. Settle in Belgium without working, or renew residence based on private means
You have sufficient recurring income, ties with Belgium, and want to reside here without carrying out a professional activity.
4. Join a family member or partner in Belgium, bring them here, or renew family residence
Your spouse, partner, parent or child lives in Belgium and you want to join them. Or you live in Belgium and want a family member to join you.
5. Study in Belgium, or renew student residence
You want to study in Belgium, renew student residence, extend it after your studies or change status.
6. Consolidate your residence in Belgium
You already live in Belgium and want to obtain Belgian nationality, permanent residence, or move from one residence status to another.
7. Request medical or humanitarian regularisation
You live in Belgium without valid residence and believe that your personal, family or medical situation justifies regularisation.
The firm does not handle appeals or rights to be heard in student residence matters. Your diagnostic will show the appropriate redirection.
To examine your case effectively, we need the decision you received. It is the essential document: it contains the reasons, the legal basis and the appeal deadline.
Upload the decision you received.
Required. Accepted formats: PDF or a readable photo. You may upload several documents.
On what date did you receive this decision?
Briefly describe the context.
What procedure did you file, on what date, and what is your current situation? At least five lines.
You will then be able to choose your appointment.
No additional question is required.
No additional question is required.
Who are you?
A single permit cannot be obtained from Belgium during irregular residence or a short stay. The worker will need to return to the country of origin.
This return must not be improvised. We first meet you for a consultation, examine the situation and tell you frankly whether a procedure is possible. If it is, we open the case and verify all information and documents before confirming whether the prospects remain high. The return is organised only then, never before.
Both the worker and employer must be open to this possibility. If departure is excluded in principle, the single-permit route cannot succeed.
Would the worker be willing to return to the country of origin if we confirm that the prospects of success are high?
Does the worker already have an employer in Belgium?
A single-permit application is always filed by the employer, never by the worker. An application therefore cannot begin before an employer has been found in Belgium.
If you want to understand your options at this stage, a written legal opinion is the appropriate service. A lawyer examines your profile, answers your questions and provides a complete written note on the available routes.
Who are you?
A professional card cannot be obtained from Belgium during irregular residence or a short stay. The application must be filed from your country of origin.
We first meet you for a consultation. If a procedure is possible, we open the case and complete a full analysis. Return is organised only after that analysis, never before.
Would you be willing to return to your country of origin to file the application if we confirm that the prospects are high?
The professional card is granted only if the project has an economic benefit for the region where you want to establish yourself. The strength of the project is therefore decisive.
A professional card cannot be obtained from Belgium during irregular residence or a short stay. The application must be filed from the future associate's country of origin.
We first meet you for a consultation. If a procedure is possible, we open the case and complete a full analysis. Return is organised only then, never before.
Applications for residence based on private means are now filed as a D-visa application from the country of origin.
If returning to your country of origin is not possible, the application must be filed from Belgium by demonstrating exceptional circumstances preventing departure. This is a more demanding route that we will discuss in consultation.
What ties do you have with Belgium?
For example, a child born in Belgium, family living in Belgium or holding Belgian nationality, a previous short or long stay, a Belgian diploma, or business relationships. Describe them as precisely as possible in at least five lines.
What income do you have?
This route requires regular recurring income and no continuing professional activity in the country of origin. Rent from property, pensions and guaranteed income are considered. Life annuities, bank assets and investments, dividends and salary are not. The required amount is 120% of the guaranteed monthly income, plus 10% per dependent, and is indexed.
If your current income does not fall within the accepted categories, this does not close the door. Some solutions can create acceptable recurring income. We will discuss them during the consultation.
Who are you?
Who is to be joined in Belgium?
Select the family relationship and situation of the person already present in Belgium.
What is the current situation of the person seeking residence?
This is the family member for whom the application will be filed.
What is the net monthly income of the person already present in Belgium?
This is the person who creates the right to family reunification. Indicate the net monthly amount and its nature: salary, self-employed income, rent, pension, benefits or social assistance.
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In most situations, family reunification requires the person already in Belgium to have sufficient income from salaried or self-employed work. The required amount is indexed each year.
This condition does not apply in certain situations, particularly when the application concerns the parent of a minor Belgian child.
If your only income is social assistance, the application will be refused. We will direct you to a written legal opinion to examine other possible routes before starting a procedure.
We support students from the start to the end of the procedure. We do not take over a case that has already begun.
We handle:
We do not handle:
We do not handle rights to be heard or appeals against refusals in student residence matters.
What is your situation?
If you want to change status, on what basis?
Have you already received a refusal of a Belgian visa or residence permit?
Are you subject to an entry ban or a Schengen alert?
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Two conditions must be met for us to file a student residence application.
Admission to a recognized or subsidized institution. Private institutions do not create a right to student residence.
Sufficient means of subsistence, with an amount indexed each year: either a guarantor or money blocked in an account.
Without admission or proof of sufficient means, a consultation would be premature. A written legal opinion is better suited: a lawyer explains in writing all conditions to meet and the next steps. The amount is deducted if you later open a case with us.
1. How long have you lived continuously in Belgium with a valid residence permit?
2. Since your arrival, has your residence been interrupted by a period without a residence permit, a registration certificate, an order to leave the territory, or a gap between two cards during a change of status?
3. Have you left Belgium for more than six consecutive months since your arrival?
4. Which residence card do you currently hold?
5. Has your principal residence been registered in Belgium without interruption throughout this period?
6. Which of these situations applies to you? You may select more than one.
7. During the last five years, have you worked in Belgium as an employee, self-employed person or civil servant for the equivalent of at least two full-time years?
8. Were your periods of work performed in Belgium with contributions to Belgian social security?
9. Do you have an official decision or certificate from the relevant organization confirming your situation?
10. Can you prove knowledge of French, Dutch or German at level A2 or above?
11. Have you completed one of the following paths?
12. Have you been convicted of a criminal offence in Belgium or abroad?
13. Is a criminal investigation or judicial inquiry currently open against you?
14. Do you have a birth certificate from your country of origin that is legalized or apostilled and translated where required?
15. Are your name and date of birth written identically on all your Belgian and foreign documents?
Before continuing, one question. Are you currently in one of these situations?
These applications cannot be assessed using a form. Everything depends on your history, your ties and your state of health, and the assessment is strict.
We will therefore not offer you an immediate consultation, but a written legal opinion: a lawyer examines your situation in detail, for a medical case on the basis of the certificates you send us, and tells you frankly whether an application has a chance of succeeding. If it does, we will assist you. If it does not, you will know before starting a procedure doomed to fail, and we will tell you what remains possible.
Before continuing, one point of honesty.
If you arrived recently in Belgium, if you have already filed several regularisation applications, or if nothing concretely prevents you from returning to your country of origin, these applications very rarely succeed. In these situations, we advise you to contact the legal aid office, which can appoint a lawyer for you.
However, some situations deserve serious examination. For example: an elderly person whose children are established in Belgium; a parent separated from a child legally resident in Belgium and prevented from maintaining a relationship with that child; children who have attended school in Belgium for a long time, particularly where health problems are present; a person suffering from a serious illness that prevents a return to the country of origin, such as cancer currently being treated in Belgium.
If you have been subject to an entry ban or an alert, please tell us.
A legal professional at the firm will read it and tell you whether we can help.
Be complete and precise: our reply will be based on this description alone. A description that is too vague will not allow us to help you.
1. Where do you currently live?
2. If you live in Belgium, what type of residence do you have?
3. Describe your situation and what you expect from us.
Include your history in Belgium, arrival dates, previous procedures and decisions, your current family and professional situation, and what you want to obtain. At least ten lines.
We will reply within three working days.
You may attach documents if you have them. Optional, up to ten files.
Your documents are kept for no more than three months if no case is opened.