🇧🇪 Belgium · Permanent Residency
Permanent residency and golden-visa paths: eligibility, required years, investment thresholds, and official checklists.
Belgian permanent-residence planning depends on EU status, third-country status and the residence card held. The Immigration Office describes EU permanent residence after five years and long-term resident status for qualifying non-EU nationals after five years of legal uninterrupted residence.
- Non-EU long-term resident status requires identity, five years legal uninterrupted residence, resources, medical insurance and public-order checks.
- EU permanent residence follows separate EU-citizen rules through the commune and Immigration Office framework.
- Card labels, absences and temporary residence categories can change the calculation.
Official authorities
- Immigration Office — long-term resident status
Official non-EU long-term resident guide.
- Immigration Office — EU permanent residence
Official EU permanent-residence guide.
Official-information aggregation, not legal advice. Always verify on the authority's own site.