Renewal of single permit or long-term residency (D/L) card?

Hello,

you don't need to ask your employer for a new WP as you'll get unlimited access with your new resident permit for your 4th year of stay.
No, you can't ask for the D card yet, as you've to wait for the 5th year of stay.

Your individual rekeningen is useless, as it's only a document from your company to fill in the yearly taxes.
Your yearly tax bill is what they'll expect to receive, you can download them all online on https://eservices.minfin.fgov.be/myminfin-web/pages
Adding your payslips is just an "extra", as well as your contract.

As long as there's a renewal process ongoing, you'll not have any gap in your stay.
You'll receive a document to allow you to stay in Belgium during the process.
And yes, the commune has to give you a specif annex to allow you to proof that you're currently under a process of renewal + upgrade.
Many communes doesn't do, but the law states that they're force to give you that document.
It's also a security for you, administration will not be able to say: hey we've never receive any request ==> resident permit denied + formal order to leave the country.

Sorry for not being clear, this is my "4th year". I thought I could apply for a D card as long as I satisfy 5 years of uninterrupted work OR x years of work + study? And the study period counts as half?

So that would total to 5 in my case as its 1 year for the study + 4 years of working. Or I'm missing something?

For reference, my "stay" in Belgium --> this is my 7th year. I spent 2014 to half-of-2018 as a student.

I moved here in 2014 to study. Wass on a student status (A card) till summer of 2018. Started working July 2018. Graduated from my (2nd) master in December 2018.

As far as I remember, for D card, you must have been working for the last 5 years at least.
But the B card is already accessible to you as you've been in "legal" stay (1/2 student + work) for 5 years.

Gotcha! I wanna apply for nationality anyway so I suppose this doesn't matter. So if I'm to understand correctly, if I don't ask my company to apply for a renewal, I'll automatically get the B card?

“you'll get unlimited access with your new resident permit for your 4th year of stay”
@Alex, which card is it that gives unlimited access after 4yrs? Other than B/D, could you explaining bit more please.

Little bit of update from me:

Commune issued me Annex 16bis yesterday dated 20.01. The lady was kind enough to make me a future appointment for 23.06 to come down to apply for the new ID (L card).

She said normally I shouldn't expect a response before 5 months. And judging by the response across this group and others; I think that sounds about right.

Question in case anyone knows: does this Annex 16bis give me the freedom to switch jobs? Or I'm still limited by what the A card says (arbeidsmarkt: beperkt).

Hi, its maybe not related to this topic but is there a legal timeline for A card renewal? How long it takes usually? I searched for it but couldn’t find any information.

You get freedom to switch job within Belgium as a freelancer with a freelance card. In Brussels, One can get this card as early as within 1 month if you get all relevent documents.

@likeaen you should do the process around 1 month before your card is supposed to expired. Basically they'll send you a document by mail, then you've to go to the commune for the renewal.
So, as soon as you get it, you should go.

Renewal is pretty fast, once accepted, it takes from 7 days to 2 weeks to get the new card, depending on the commune.

Hi Alex, my husband is waiting for 5 weeks already ı think you already know me that we are the most unlucky family about this processes

Today my husband’s boss called the woman (who took application) and she said that its very
busy and can take up to 8 weeks for renewal.  It should have been made before 2 months from expiration date.

Flanders region. Maybe it’s different in somewhere else. 

As soon as he get renewal approval, he will request fastest delivery for new card by paying 130 euros or something like that.

Thanks for your reply

You can request an "unlimited single permit" if you can justify several years of employment covered by a single permit or a work permit, over a period of ten years of lawful and uninterrupted residence in Belgium immediately preceding the application.

If you are a citizen of a country that has concluded international agreements with Belgium with regard to the employment of workers (Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Morocco, Montenegro, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey) and your spouse, your registered partner or your children lawfully reside with you :
you need to justify two years of employment covered by a single permit or a work permit, over a period of ten years of lawful and uninterrupted residence in Belgium immediately preceding the application.

If you are a citizen of a country that has concluded international agreements with Belgium with regard to the employment of workers (Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Morocco, Montenegro, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey) :
you need to justify three years of employment covered by a single permit or a work permit, over a period of ten years of lawful and uninterrupted residence in Belgium immediately preceding the application.

If your spouse, your registered partner or your children are lawfully residing with you, :
you need to justify three years of employment covered by a single permit or a work permit, over a period of ten years of lawful and uninterrupted residence in Belgium immediately preceding the application.

In all other cases  :
you need to justify four years of employment covered by a single permit or a work permit, over a period of ten years of lawful and uninterrupted residence in Belgium immediately preceding the application.

An "unlimited single permit" will allow you to work in Belgium without a duration limit, and is valid for all salaried professions and all employers.

Reference : Brussels Employment Site

Hello Alex,

Isn't it the other way around. For D card, your student days are counted but for B card, your 5 year working is counted.

Ref: https://www.agii.be/thema/vreemdelingen … he-d-kaart

Ref: https://www.agii.be/thema/vreemdelingen … he-b-kaart

Or I am not interpreting it correctly. please check and rectify my understanding.

You can request an "unlimited single permit" if you can justify several years of employment covered by a single permit or a work permit, over a period of ten years of lawful and uninterrupted residence in Belgium immediately preceding the application.

If you are a citizen of a country that has concluded international agreements with Belgium with regard to the employment of workers (Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Morocco, Montenegro, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey) and your spouse, your registered partner or your children lawfully reside with you :
you need to justify two years of employment covered by a single permit or a work permit, over a period of ten years of lawful and uninterrupted residence in Belgium immediately preceding the application.

If you are a citizen of a country that has concluded international agreements with Belgium with regard to the employment of workers (Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Morocco, Montenegro, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey) :
you need to justify three years of employment covered by a single permit or a work permit, over a period of ten years of lawful and uninterrupted residence in Belgium immediately preceding the application.

If your spouse, your registered partner or your children are lawfully residing with you, :
you need to justify three years of employment covered by a single permit or a work permit, over a period of ten years of lawful and uninterrupted residence in Belgium immediately preceding the application.

In all other cases  :
you need to justify four years of employment covered by a single permit or a work permit, over a period of ten years of lawful and uninterrupted residence in Belgium immediately preceding the application.

An "unlimited single permit" will allow you to work in Belgium without a duration limit, and is valid for all salaried professions and all employers.

Reference : Brussels Employment Site

- @arjunprasad2143

@bunchofguys

Yep. If you've studied here.

- @richeekdey3

What is “unlimited resident permit”? Is it long term residence (Type B / Type L) ?

- @Jimsen

What is “unlimited resident permit”? Is it long term residence (Type B / Type L) ?

- @Jimsen

Good question!

This link "Brussels Employment Site" it is not clear at all

- @bunchofguys

Based on what I read in the website, it is an unlimited single permit (like an unlimited work permit).. The requirement 1 is you must have had 10 years of uninterrupted stay in Belgium, and have x years of employment immediately preceding the application (x varies b/w 2 or 3 years based on the conditions listed there).  This what I understood from reading. As mentioned above, the sentences in the site is a bit confusing, so I may be wrong

@Jimsen I applied on 20th Jan. They gave me annex 16bis which I took to the commune yesterday.