Migrants must wait over a year to be eligible to sponsor their spouses and unmarried minor children. Slovenia would achieve best practice on conditions if the high fee were reduced (as in DK and IE) and the economic resource requirement removed (as in BE and SE). Security of status would attain best practice, as it does in IT, if family members and sponsors had permits of the same length that would not be withdrawn on the break-up of a family relationship. Nevertheless, after a maximum of three years, some relatives (the spouse or adult children) can get independent residence permits in their own names. Reunited family members enjoy equal rights as their sponsors to education, social assistance, healthcare and housing, but there are restrictions on them working.
