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Residence or Ordinary Stay Permit for Senior Roles in San Marino Companies

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What type of worker, employment situation, occupation or professional activity is this pathway actually designed for?

This route is for senior executives of San Marino companies: it covers a foreigner holding a managerial post or a role of primary importance in a San Marino-law company that employs a significant number of staff.

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  • Art. 16(3)(b)
    b) rivestano incarichi dirigenziali o di primaria importanza in società di diritto sammarinese che occupano un numero significativo di dipendenti;

Does the applicant need a job offer, employer, sponsor, transfer relationship or other employer involvement? What is important about that employer relationship?

The employer must be a San Marino-law company employing a significant number of staff; the applicant's relationship with it must be a managerial post or a role of primary importance within the company.

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  • Art. 16(3)(b)
    b) rivestano incarichi dirigenziali o di primaria importanza in società di diritto sammarinese che occupano un numero significativo di dipendenti;

What are the few decisive professional characteristics of the pathway: occupation, qualifications, experience, salary, skill level, shortage status, labour-market condition or equivalent?

The qualifying facts are seniority/importance of the role and the company's significant headcount; no fixed numeric employee threshold is stated in the official text, so the assessment appears to be case-based.

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Limits of the record
  • No fixed minimum headcount figure for 'significant number of employees' is stated in the captured text.
  • Art. 16(3)(b)
    b) rivestano incarichi dirigenziali o di primaria importanza in società di diritto sammarinese che occupano un numero significativo di dipendenti;

What work does the permission allow? Is the holder tied to an employer, occupation or sector? Can family accompany where clearly established?

The Commission may extend the registered residence or ordinary stay permit granted under this route to: a spouse not legally separated and with no separation, dissolution or annulment proceedings pending; a dependent child aged up to 25 who is not married or cohabiting more uxorio (for minors, with the other parent's consent or court authorisation); and a dependent child unable to support themselves because of disability. The official source does not state what work is allowed or any tie to the role or employer.

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Limits of the record
  • The captured text does not state what work the holder may do or whether they are tied to the role or employer
  • https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/testi-coordinati/docCat.17003105.1.150.20.html
    3-bis. La Commissione Consiliare Permanente Affari Esteri, Emigrazione e Immigrazione, su proposta del Congresso di Stato e previo parere obbligatorio della Gendarmeria, ha facoltà estendere la residenza anagrafica o il permesso di soggiorno ordinario, concessi nelle ipotesi contemplate nelle lettere a), b), c), c-bis), c-ter) e c-quater) del comma 3, in favore di: a) coniuge non legalmente separato e per il quale non siano in corso le procedure di separazione, scioglimento o cessazione degli effetti civili o annullamento del matrimonio;
  • https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/testi-coordinati/docCat.17003105.1.150.20.html
    b) figlio di età non superiore a 25 anni legittimo, naturale riconosciuto o adottivo, che risulti a suo carico, purché non sia coniugato o convivente more uxorio e, nel caso di minori, a condizione che l’altro genitore, qualora sia noto e in vita, abbia prestato il suo consenso ovvero tale consenso sia autorizzato dal provvedimento dell’autorità giudiziaria; c) figlio legittimo, naturale o adottivo, che risulti a suo carico, qualora non sia in grado di provvedere al proprio sostentamento a causa di disabilità.

How long is the permission normally granted for, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction exists if officially stated?

Residence in these cases is granted for the period of the professional and work activity in the Republic, save exceptions for longer stays that the Commission may grant by reasoned decision. Ten years after entry in the register of the resident population, once the commitments have been met and the Art. 17 requirements and habitual dwelling have been verified by the competent offices and the Gendarmeria, residence is deemed consolidated and extends to the members of the cohabiting family unit. The official source does not state a renewal procedure.

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Limits of the record
  • Renewal procedure, and the duration of an ordinary stay permit granted instead of residence, are not stated

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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