🇷🇴Romania immigration routes

Every route we track for Romania, with the official source behind each one.

6

routes tracked

0

need no employer sponsor

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map to permanent residence

Routes

• EU Blue Card

  Romania's EU Blue Card, issued under the national implementation of the EU Blue Card Directive, certifies a third-country national's right to stay in Romania for highly-qualified employment and is obtained from the territorial units of the General Inspectorate for Immigration (IGI) in the applicant's county of resid…

  • Employer sponsor required

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• Family reunification — long-stay visa D/VF and temporary residence permit

  Romania's family reunification route starts with the sponsor, not the relative.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Long-stay visa and temporary residence permit for professional, commercial or economic activities

  Romania does not run a stand-alone investor visa; the live route for someone who wants to invest or trade here is residence for independent activity.

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• Long-stay visa for other purposes (marked D/AS) — digital nomads

  Romania does not issue a separately branded digital nomad visa; it admits digital nomads as one of the categories of its long-stay visa for other purposes, marked D/AS.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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• Long-stay visa for studies and temporary residence permit for studies

  Studying in Romania as a non-EU national is a two-document route.

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• Long-term residence in Romania (EU long-term resident status)

  Long-term residence is Romania's settlement status for non-EU nationals who already have a valid right to stay.

  • Sponsorship not yet read

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