Visa for Family Reunification to join child(ren)
Documents to be submitted with a visa application:

• A valid travel document (e.g. international passport) valid for one year after the visa issuance date. It is advisable that your passport contains at least two double blank pages reserved for visas (blank front and back) for each applicant (so, if a child travels with parent in the parent’s passport, there should be 4 blank pages (blank front and back), i.e. 8 blank pages.
• Two visa application forms correctly completed, signed and accompanied by three recent photographs bearing a true likeness to the applicant.
• Copy of the Belgian identity card, Belgian passport or the residence or settlement permit for foreign nationals issued to your child(ren) residing in Belgium
• Visa applicant's birth certificate. " Birth certificate of the child(ren) residing in Belgium
• Extract from your judicial record (Police clearance), no more than 6 months before date of application and covering the last 5 years.
• Proof that you are financially dependent on your child(ren) residing in Belgium
• The copy of the internal passport: personal data page (page 3), military duty (page 13), marital status (pages 14, 15), children (pages 16, 17), information about issued passports (page 19)
• Evidence that the person you will join has a medical insurance valid for himself/herself and all his/her family members.
• The family members in Belgium must show that they have regular and sufficient income and that they can support the family without help from public funds.
• Evidence that the person you will join has an adequate housing (property act, registered lease).
• Documents should be submitted in original + 2 photocopies. All originals are returned.

Important :

1. The documents listed above are only the basic documents to be submitted in all cases. Additional documents may be requested by the Embassy or Consulate and Applicants may also be invited for an interview.
2. Official documents issued in Russia or in Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan must be apostilled/legalised and accompanied by a certified translation also apostilled/legalized.
3. The above mentioned type D visa is a one entry national visa and requires registration in the Belgian population registers on arrival.
4. For the correct fee, please click on Visa Fee page