Categories of residence permits
The categories of residence permits are as follows:
A) Work permit for business purposes:
A1. Employees with dependent employment relationship – provision of services – provision of work
Α2. Special purpose employees
A3. Investment activity
Α4. Highly qualified employment – ‘EU Blue Card’
B) Temporary residence (employment with a national visa)
B1. Seasonal work
B2. Fishermen
B3. Members of art ensembles
Β4. Third-country citizens transferred from a company established in a Member State of the European Union or the European Economic Area in order to provide services
Β5. Third-country citizens transferred from a company established in a third-country in order to provide services
Β6. Leaders of organised tourism groups
B7. Athletes, coaches
Β8. Third-country university students participating in internship programmes
C) Residence permit for humanitarian, exceptional or other reasons
C1. Humanitarian reasons
C2. Exceptional reasons
C3. Public interest
C4. Other reasons (financially independent persons, property owners, adult children – dependent persons and household staff of diplomatic mission members, studies – familiarisation with and exercise of monastic life)
D) Residence permit for studies, volunteer work, research and vocational training
D1. Studies
D2. Volunteer work
D3. Research
D4 Vocational training
E) Residence permit for victims of human trafficking and illegal immigrant smuggling
F) Residence permit for family reunion
F1. Family members of a third-country citizen
F2. Family members of a Greek citizen or an expatriate
F3. Independent residence permit of a family member of a third-country citizen or an expatriate
F4. Personal right of residence of family members of a Greek citizen
G) Long-term residence permit
G1. Long-term residence permit
G2. Residence permit for second-generation immigrants
G3. Ten-year residence permit