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Cohabitation visa application procedure for Belgium
Hello! I am in the process of applying to cohabitation visa, listen to my story.
I came across to this website while looking into more information. I am currently living in Turkey, but I met my Belgian partner when I was a student in Netherlands. We are dating for almost 2 years now, I've stayed with him during summer, met his family, he has been into my country for 3 times now. We decided to apply for cohabitation but I need visa to apply. I already gathered all of the documents, however some of the information related to "proof of stable long-term relationship" confuses me. On some websites it says "you have to know each other at least 2 years", but on the official immigration website of Belgium (newintown.be) indicates "1 year" under the cohabitation section. Also, regardless of this 1 year 2 year thing, some people are commenting on how the applications will be rejected on "belgiumcohabitationvisa.com" if you have not lived together for a year without interruption. There is where I start to panic. Because cohabitation is for long term relationships. I have no chance of staying with him without interruption. If I could, I would do that. My question is, what is the real criteria?
My application will be on next month, I just don't want to pay the visa fee and lose it
You must have known each other for a minimum of 2 years and un interrupted stay together or meetup for 45 days minimum.Photos,air tickets,chats,telephone records will come in handy at the commune.
Best of luck!
The background to this is that all EU countries have a responsibility to ensure that people moving to the EU and claiming that it is to join a partner are doing so for genuine reasons rather than simply as a means to get access to the EU for economic benefits.
Your country of origin will be considered firstly and then whatever evidence you can produce to show that yours is a genuine claim. It is very much a case that you cannot have too much - emails, lists of calls, flight tickets, photos, letters, birthday cards and so on and on.
Also, your partner should be making enquiries at his commune - he is better placed than you to get details. They should know that he is sincerely involved in your plan to move here.
Good luck
This is nonsense. You don't need to prove that you have been living with your partner. You have to prove that you have a long standing relationship by providing communications and other additional information that might help as indicated by the previous commentator. In my case it was easy as I didn't have to apply for a visa to get into Belgium so I did all the procedures her eat the commune but I can totally understand that you have to first go through other procedures through the embassy that might cause some confusion. Good luck.
Hello all,
I applied for a cohabitation visa in the Belgian Embassy in the Philippines and I am now currently living in Belgium. I have declared legal cohabitation here in Antwerp with my boyfriend. I currently have my Orange Card and I am waiting for my F card. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to help.
I created a blog to help people figure out the maze that is the cohabitation process in Belgium
www.gokimy.be
