Hi,
I am living in Belgium since 3.5 years. I have a limited residence permit card (has to be renewed every year) and work permit D. Me and my wife are both working in an engineering company. My sister-in-law wants to visit us in August and she applied for a short term visitor visa in India. We submitted sufficient proof of income and proof of residence permit here.
She received a letter today saying that they needed an original letter of guarantee from a sponsor by a guarantor residing permanently in Belgium or a Belgian nationality.
We had already requested this letter from our districthuis in Antwerp and submitted with the application.
The letter also goes on to say that 'a person with limited residence permit cannot legally act as a guarantor'.
So my question is, if you are here with this temporary residence permit card, can you not invite anybody from your family to visit you even if you have sufficient means??
Our residence permit will have to be renewed in Jan 2018 and she was going to visit for 2 weeks in August 2017.