Migrants are only eligible for a long-term residence permit after living and working in Slovenia for over five years. Asylum seekers get long-term residence as soon as they are recognised as refugees. Applicants for long-term residence - like those for family reunion - must prove they have sufficient income through a short but expensive procedure. Long-term residents are slightly secure under the law. Although long-term residents never need to renew their permits, the state can withdraw them and expel residents for a number of reasons. Even residents of 20 years and children can be expelled. Long-term residence permits give their holders equal rights as Slovenes to access social security, social assistance, healthcare, housing, employment, and free movement and residence in the EU. However, the simultaneous holding of a permit in another EU Member State is not permitted.
