DOCUMENT LISTS
Requirements for Residency
Complete lists of documents required to apply for temporary and permanent residence in Serbia.
Residence Permit by Entrepreneurship (PR)
- Color photograph 3.5×4.5 cm (digital format).
- Copy of passport (main page and page with entry stamp to Serbia).
- Copy of the white card.
- Health insurance.
- Autobiography in Serbian (court translation not required).
- Diploma with court translation of the main page (grades do not need translation).
- Copy of the decision and confirmation (potvrda) on company registration.
- Extract from the APR (Business Registers Agency).
- Copy of the apartment rental agreement (must include all family members).
- Copy of the real estate cadastre extract (list nepokretnosti) or purchase agreement.
- Copy of the read ID card (očitana lična karta) of the landlord.
- Registration permission from the landlord.
- Bank statement showing sufficient funds (min. 1500 EUR per person).
- State fee payment: 26,500 RSD per person (22,230 + 2,040 + 1,788) + 444.60 RSD online commission.
Residence Permit by Real Estate
- Color photograph 3.5×4.5 cm (1 piece).
- Copy of passport (main page and page with entry stamp to Serbia).
- Copy of the white card.
- Health insurance.
- Autobiography in Serbian (court translation not required).
- Copy of the real estate cadastre extract or purchase agreement.
- Bank statement showing sufficient funds (min. 1500 EUR per person).
- State fee payment: 26,500 RSD per person (22,230 + 2,040 + 1,788) + 444.60 RSD online commission.
Residence Permit by Family Reunification (Spouse)
- Color photograph 3.5×4.5 cm (digital format).
- Copy of passport (main page and entry stamp).
- Copy of the white card.
- Health insurance.
- Autobiography in Serbian (court translation not required).
- Copy of the apartment rental agreement (must include all family members).
- Copy of the real estate cadastre extract or purchase agreement.
- Copy of the read ID card of the landlord.
- Registration permission from the landlord.
- Court translation of the marriage certificate.
- Statement from the main applicant committing to support the family.
- Copy of bank statement showing sufficient funds (min. 1500 EUR per person).
- State fee payment: 26,500 RSD per person + 444.60 RSD online commission.
Residence Permit by Education
- Color photograph 3.5×4.5 cm.
- Copy of passport (main page and entry stamp).
- Copy of the white card.
- Health insurance.
- Autobiography in Serbian (court translation not required).
- Copy of the apartment rental agreement (must include all family members).
- Copy of the real estate cadastre extract or purchase agreement.
- Copy of the read ID card of the landlord.
- State fee payment: 26,500 RSD per person.
- Confirmation of enrollment in school or accredited higher education institution.
- Confirmation of enrollment in language course (if applicable).
- Extract from the APR confirming the institution's educational activities.
Residence Permit for Child (Family Reunification)
- Color photograph 3.5×4.5 cm (1 piece).
- Copy of passport (main page and entry stamp).
- Copy of the white card.
- Health insurance.
- Copy of the apartment rental agreement (must include all family members).
- Copy of the real estate cadastre extract or purchase agreement.
- Copy of the read ID card of the landlord.
- Court translation of the child's birth certificate.
- Statement from the main applicant committing to support the child.
- Bank statement showing sufficient funds (min. 1500 EUR per person).
- State fee payment: 26,500 RSD per person (for children over 16).
* Important: If one parent is absent, notarized and translated consent is required.
Residence Permit by Talent
- Color photograph 3.5×4.5 cm (digital format).
- Copy of passport (main page and entry stamp).
- Copy of the white card.
- Health insurance.
- Autobiography in Serbian.
- Diploma with court translation.
- Decision on nostrification (diploma recognition).
- Copy of the apartment rental agreement.
- Copy of the real estate cadastre extract or purchase agreement.
- Copy of the read ID card of the landlord.
- Registration permission from the landlord.
- Bank statement showing sufficient funds (min. 1500 EUR per person).
- State fee payment: 26,500 RSD per person.
Residence Permit by Employment
- Color photograph 3.5×4.5 cm (1 piece).
- Copy of passport (main page and entry stamp).
- Copy of the white card.
- Health insurance (not required if employment contract specifies salary amount).
- Autobiography in Serbian.
- Copy of the decision on company registration (provided by employer).
- Employment contract.
- Decision of the National Employment Service approving the employment.
- Statement from the employer committing to hire you.
- Company bank statement (provided by employer).
- Copy of the apartment rental agreement.
- Copy of the real estate cadastre extract.
- Copy of the read ID card of the landlord.
- State fee payment: 26,500 RSD per person.
Residence Permit by Unmarried Partnership
- Color photograph 3.5×4.5 cm (1 piece).
- Copy of passport (main page and entry stamp).
- Copy of the white card.
- Health insurance.
- Autobiography in Serbian.
- Copy of the apartment rental agreement.
- Copy of the real estate cadastre extract.
- Copy of the read ID card of the landlord.
- Court translation of certificates of no impediment to marriage from both partners.
- Statement from two witnesses confirming cohabitation (notarized).
- Statement from the main applicant committing to support the partner.
- Bank statement showing sufficient funds (min. 1500 EUR per person).
- State fee payment: 26,500 RSD per person.
Permanent Residence by Entrepreneurship (PMŽ)
- Color photograph 3.5×4.5 cm.
- Copy of passport (main page and last entry stamp).
- Health insurance (or read health booklet - očitana zdravstvena knjižica).
- Autobiography in Serbian.
- Court translation of the birth certificate.
- Diploma with court translation of the main page.
- Copy of the decision and confirmation on company registration.
- Extract from the APR.
- Company bank statement for the last 6 months.
- Copy of the apartment rental agreement.
- Copy of the real estate cadastre extract or purchase agreement.
- Copy of the read ID card of the landlord.
- Registration permission from the landlord.
- Court translation of the marriage certificate.
- Bank statement showing sufficient funds (min. 1500 EUR per person).