Requirement to financially provide for yourself in order to be eligible for a permanent residence permit
If you are between 18 and 67 years of age and are applying for a permanent residence permit, you must have earned your own income during the last 12 months.
Only these types of incomes are approved:
- income from employment
- business income (from your own company)
- pension payments or permanent periodical benefits, for example earned interest and regular income from insurance settlements, contractual pensions, personal pension schemes, income from life insurance, rental income
- sickness benefit, pregnancy benefit, parental benefit, retirement pension, unemployment benefit, work assessment allowance, single parent’s benefit
- loans or grants received in connection with studies
- introduction benefit