Family visa in Greece

• Family reunification is for the family of a non-EU citizen who has lived lawfully in Greece for two years and holds a permit valid for at least two years that can lead to permanent residence. It does not apply to family members of EU citizens, who have their own rules.
• The family members covered are a spouse aged 18 or over, unmarried common children under 18 (adopted children included), and other unmarried children under 18 of the sponsor or spouse where custody was lawfully given. The definition we read does not list parents or siblings.
• Family members of a Greek citizen have a separate route and a residence card (O.3): a spouse, a partner under a cohabitation agreement made in Greece or before a Greek consulate, children and grandchildren under 21 or dependent, and dependent parents and grandparents.
• Families of investor-permit holders use article 95 of the Code instead, which waives the two-year wait.
• We read the Migration Code in the Government Gazette issue of 1 April 2023 that the Ministry of Migration and Asylum publishes. The Code has been amended since, so confirm current rules with the Directorate of Aliens and Migration of your Decentralised Administration.

Sources: Hellenic Republic. Checked 17 October 2026.

• The sponsor's income must be personal, stable, regular and not from social assistance, and not below the yearly net pay of a minimum-wage worker. The Gazette decision works this out as the monthly minimum wage times 14. It rises by 20% for a spouse and by 15% for each child, and the child uplift is not required when both spouses live lawfully in Greece.
• The monthly minimum wage for employees is €920 gross from 1 April 2026, which is €12,880 gross over 14 months. The net test is lower than that gross figure, and we did not find the net amount. To be safe, show stable income of more than €13,000 a year before the additions.
• Regularity of the income is shown by the sponsor having met insurance and tax obligations in the year before the application.
• The sponsor also needs accommodation big enough for the family and full health insurance that can cover the family members.

Sources: Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Migration and Asylum (published in the Government Gazette). Checked 17 October 2026.

• The sponsor proves the family tie, and the authority may call the sponsor to an interview and make any other enquiry it needs. The documents are set by a joint ministerial decision that we did not find, so the exact list is unknown.
• The sponsor files online through the Ministry of Migration and Asylum's services. The family members must attend an interview at the Greek consulate, and not turning up makes the application inadmissible.
• After entering, each family member applies for a permit before the entry visa ends. A parent or custodian applies for a minor, who receives an individual permit.
• An older Attica administration page, written under the 2014 law, lists the type D entry visa, an insurance printout or private policy, the sponsor's declaration that the family situation has not changed, and a copy of the sponsor's permit.

Sources: Hellenic Republic. Checked 17 October 2026.

• The sponsor applies while the family members are outside Greece. Having stayed in Greece before applying does not stop an application.
• The service asks the police and the consulate for opinions, which must arrive within three months, or 30 days more in complex cases. It then approves or refuses, and the consulate issues the special entry visas.
• The whole process should end within nine months of the application, with three more months in exceptional cases.

Sources: Hellenic Republic. Checked 17 October 2026.

• The permit fee for family reunification is €150 for each adult family member, and minors do not pay. An adult child who reaches 21 and takes an autonomous permit pays €450.
• The residence card for family members of a Greek citizen (O.3) carries no permit fee. The consular fee for the long-stay family visa is not in the sources we read, so it is unknown.

Sources: Hellenic Republic. Checked 17 October 2026.

• The first family permit ends on the same date as the sponsor's permit, and renewals follow the sponsor's. If the sponsor becomes a long-term resident, family permits are renewed every three years. To renew, the sponsor shows the family tie still exists and that insurance and tax obligations are met.
• After at most five years, spouses and children who have come of age can take an autonomous three-year permit (O.2), and earlier on the sponsor's death or after a divorce or domestic violence. It gives immediate access to dependent work and study.

Sources: Hellenic Republic. Checked 17 October 2026.

• A family member can reach long-term resident status after five years of lawful, uninterrupted residence on the same conditions as anyone else, including the Greek language and history test.
• The residence card for family members of a Greek citizen lasts five years. If the continuity conditions are met, it turns on expiry into a ten-year permit (type M.2) in the 2023 text. Temporary absences up to six months a year in total do not break continuity. Confirm the current card with the Directorate of Aliens and Migration.

Sources: Hellenic Republic. Checked 17 October 2026.

• You are a Greek tax resident if your permanent or main home, habitual abode or centre of vital interests is in Greece, or if you are there for more than 183 days in any 12 months. Residents are taxed on worldwide income.
• The scale for wages and business income runs from 9% to 44%. The sources we read do not say whether the tax residence of a spouse who does not work follows the sponsor’s, so that is unknown.

Sources: Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE), Hellenic Republic. Checked 17 October 2026.

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1. Visas (Foreign Ministry): short stay and the Schengen area (as recorded by the Atlas Visa Map), Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Checked 27 May 2026. As recorded by the Atlas Visa Map: US passport holders visa-free, 90 days in any 180-day period in the Schengen area (map refreshed 13 May 2026, verified 27 May 2026).
2. Greece travel advice and advisories, Government of Canada (travel.gc.ca). Checked 15 October 2026. Page last updated 5 October 2026: Greece is a Schengen country; Canadian citizens need no visa for up to 90 days in any 180-day period; a work visa is required.
3. Greece travel advice, Internet Archive copy of 12 October 2026, Smartraveller (Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade). Checked 15 October 2026. Page updated 30 September 2026: Greece is in the Schengen area; Australian passport holders register biometrics under the EES; Schengen duration rules apply; no confirmed ETIAS date.
4. List of Member States' bilateral visa waiver agreements with third countries allowing an extension of the period of stay (2019/C 130/07), European Commission (Official Journal of the European Union, C 130, 8 April 2019). Checked 15 October 2026. Greece's section lists New Zealand: entry into force 6.12.1961, authorised length of stay 90 days, ordinary passports. This is the April 2019 list; we found no newer one.
5. Migration Code (Law 5038/2023), Government Gazette A 81 of 1 April 2023: text as first published, Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Migration and Asylum (publishes the Government Gazette issue). Checked 17 October 2026. Article 4 (definitions of family members), articles 83 to 87 (family reunification: scope, conditions, filing, nine-month limit, duration), article 90 (autonomous O.2 permit), article 93 (residence card for family of a Greek citizen, O.3), article 95 (family of investors), article 171 (fees: 150 euros for O.1 and O.2, 450 euros for the O.2 permit at 21, minors and O.3 exempt), articles 143 to 145 (long-term resident status). This is the text as first published on 1 April 2023; later amendments are not in this file. Greek text.
6. Contact our Missions in the USA, Internet Archive copy of 3 October 2026, Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Greek missions in the USA). Checked 15 October 2026. Lists the Washington embassy and the consulates general in San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Tampa and the consulates in Atlanta and Houston, with the states each covers.
7. Status table: Convention of 5 October 1961 abolishing the requirement of legalisation for foreign public documents (Apostille Convention), Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). Checked 16 October 2026. In force for Greece from 18 May 1985, the United States from 15 October 1981, Canada from 11 January 2024, Australia from 16 March 1995 and New Zealand from 22 November 2001.
8. Visas (Greece in Canada), Internet Archive copy of 25 September 2026, Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Embassy of Greece in Ottawa and its consulates general). Checked 15 October 2026. Long-stay national visa from a mission in Canada: appear in person before the mission covering where you legally live, be interviewed, file the general documents; prices in euros converted monthly; cash in Canadian dollars only (Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal also take debit cards); no digital nomad or I.8 checklist on the page.
9. Greece in Canada: home page with the list of Greek missions, Internet Archive copy of 17 June 2026, Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Embassy of Greece in Ottawa). Checked 15 October 2026. Lists the embassy in Ottawa, the consulates general in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver and an honorary consulate in Winnipeg; the link to the consulates' areas of jurisdiction did not open.
10. Consular Section, Embassy of Greece in Canberra, Internet Archive copy of 24 August 2025, Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Embassy of Greece in Canberra). Checked 15 October 2026. Address 9 Turrana Street, Yarralumla ACT; public hours Monday to Wednesday 09:30 to 14:30; an appointment is mandatory.
11. Australia and Greece: Social Security Agreement (press release of 1 October 2008), Internet Archive copy of 20 November 2025, Australian Embassy, Athens. Checked 15 October 2026. Says the agreement was signed on 23 May 2007 and entered into force on 1 October 2008.
12. Greece and New Zealand (bilateral relations), Internet Archive copy of 16 May 2026, Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Checked 15 October 2026. The Embassy of Greece in Canberra is accredited to and represents Greece in New Zealand; a Greek embassy in Wellington operated from 1999 to 2015; the Honorary Consulate in Wellington (3-5 Hania Street, Mount Victoria) names the Embassy in Canberra as its competent authority.
13. New Zealand's social security agreement with Greece, Work and Income (Ministry of Social Development). Checked 15 October 2026. Page updated 23 June 2026: covers New Zealand Super, Veteran's Pension, Supported Living Payment, Sole Parent Support for widows and widowers, Orphan's Benefit and Funeral Grant, and Greek old age, invalidity, survivors and funeral benefits; residence periods can be added together; it describes payments, not contributions.
14. Joint ministerial decision 225679/2024: amount and proof of sufficient means (Government Gazette B 5223, 17 September 2024), Ministry of Migration and Asylum (published in the Government Gazette). Checked 17 October 2026. Opened 17 October 2026. Article 1(1)(ι): at least EUR 3,500 a month for the type I.8 permit and the matching national visa, plus 20% for a spouse and 15% for each child, shown by a foreign pension, a bank account or own funds of lawful origin, assessed monthly for periodic income and yearly for other income; article 1(1)(β): Australian work and holiday participants EUR 3,000; article 2: income test for family reunification (the yearly net pay of a minimum-wage worker, monthly pay times 14); article 3: income test for long-term resident status.
15. Minimum wage, Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. Checked 17 October 2026. From 1 April 2026, by ministerial decision 8934/27.3.2026 (Government Gazette B 1759): statutory minimum monthly salary 920 euros for employees and a daily wage of 41.09 euros for manual workers.
16. Residence permit documents: financially independent persons (Attica Decentralised Administration), Hellenic Republic, Decentralised Administration of Attica. Checked 15 October 2026. Written under Law 4251/2014: 2,000 euros a month (+20%, +15%) and a 1,000 euro fee; older than the 2024 decision, so not used for the figure.
17. Tax residence for natural persons (Income Tax Code, article 4), Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE). Checked 17 October 2026. Greek tax resident if the permanent or main home, habitual abode or centre of vital interests is in Greece, or if present in Greece more than 183 days in any twelve-month period; the 183-day test is not applied to people there only for tourism, medical, therapeutic or similar private reasons for no more than 365 days.
18. Taxation of non-Greek-sourced income obtained by Greek tax residents (as recorded by the Atlas Tax Map), Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE). Checked 30 May 2026. As recorded by the Atlas Tax Map: Greek tax residents are taxed on worldwide income (checked 30 May 2026).
19. Income taxation (Tax Guide), Hellenic Republic, Ministry of National Economy and Finance. Checked 17 October 2026. Greek tax residents are taxed on income arising in Greece and abroad; scale for employment, pension and business income from tax year 2026: 9%, 20%, 26%, 34%, 39% and 44%, with lower rates in the second and third bands for dependent children; the guide also notes that incentives exist for foreign tax residents who transfer their tax residence to Greece, under conditions (articles 5A, 5B and 5C of the Income Tax Code).