2026-10-04Finding
Peru has no route by descent, and the family link runs upward
Guides place Peru beside Argentina and Italy as a country you can reach through a grandparent. Neither the law nor its regulation contains such a route, and the one that exists points the other way.
Article 80 of the regulation to Peru's migration decree lists the residence categories. There are eighteen of them, and the list is closed: what is not on it does not exist. None of the eighteen is based on descent from a Peruvian.
The nearest thing is Familiar Residente, and it does not define itself. It borrows its scope from article 38 of the decree, which sets out a family nucleus rather than a line of descent. Read it and the asymmetry is immediate: it reaches the first-degree ascendant - a parent - and it reaches a child only while that child is a minor, or under 28 and unmarried and still studying, or unable to support themselves through proven disability.
So the parent of a Peruvian qualifies. The adult child of a Peruvian, past 28 or not studying, does not. And a grandchild never does, because first degree does not reach the second generation.
This is worth stating plainly because the mistake is not a small one. Someone who moves on the understanding that a Peruvian grandparent opens a door is not facing a harder version of the route they expected. They are facing no route at all, and the nearest category would admit their parent rather than them.
Written from readings already held, without a new fetch. Both documents were checked for truncation first: the regulation's articles run from 1 to 230 without a gap, which matters because a negative claim built on a list is worthless if part of the list was lost in extraction.
What the instruments say
«Las calidades migratorias de residencia son las siguientes:»Our translation - not official
The residence migration statuses are the following:
The eighteen that follow are Cooperante, Designado, Formación, Religioso, Intercambio, Inversionista, Investigación, Trabajador, Familiar de residente, Suspendida, Humanitaria, Rentista, Permanente, Convenios Internacionales, Consular, Diplomático, Oficial and Familiar de Oficial. None of them is a route by descent.
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Labour ministry, cited here only as the host of a document library containing a full-text copy of the migration regulation.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Not a consolidating service and not the author of what it hosts. The regulation copy it holds is the original as first published and has since been amended by instruments that insert articles absent from that file, so it is the base text and not the current text. Its own listing mislabels the file.
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«g. El ascendiente en primer grado;»Our translation - not official
g. The first-degree ascendant;
First degree is a parent. It is the whole of the upward reach, and there is no corresponding downward provision for an adult descendant beyond the two cases in incisos c and d.
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Labour ministry, cited here only as the host of a document library containing a full-text copy of the migration regulation.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Not a consolidating service and not the author of what it hosts. The regulation copy it holds is the original as first published and has since been amended by instruments that insert articles absent from that file, so it is the base text and not the current text. Its own listing mislabels the file.
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«El hijo o hija mayor de edad, hasta los veinte y ocho (28) años de edad, de estado civil soltero que esté siguiendo estudios técnicos o superiores;»Our translation - not official
The adult son or daughter, up to twenty-eight (28) years of age, unmarried, who is following technical or higher studies;
About this source
Labour ministry, cited here only as the host of a document library containing a full-text copy of the migration regulation.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Not a consolidating service and not the author of what it hosts. The regulation copy it holds is the original as first published and has since been amended by instruments that insert articles absent from that file, so it is the base text and not the current text. Its own listing mislabels the file.
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«El plazo de otorgamiento y de permanencia es de hasta dos (02) años para los familiares de peruanos y de un (01) año para los familiares de extranjeros residentes.»Our translation - not official
The period of grant and of stay is up to two (02) years for relatives of Peruvians and one (01) year for relatives of resident foreigners.
About this source
Labour ministry, cited here only as the host of a document library containing a full-text copy of the migration regulation.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Not a consolidating service and not the author of what it hosts. The regulation copy it holds is the original as first published and has since been amended by instruments that insert articles absent from that file, so it is the base text and not the current text. Its own listing mislabels the file.
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- reportsReglamento del Decreto Legislativo N° 1350 - Anexo del Decreto Supremo 007-2017-IN
Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo (document library, gob.pe)
About this source
Labour ministry, cited here only as the host of a document library containing a full-text copy of the migration regulation.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Not a consolidating service and not the author of what it hosts. The regulation copy it holds is the original as first published and has since been amended by instruments that insert articles absent from that file, so it is the base text and not the current text. Its own listing mislabels the file.
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- reportsDecreto Legislativo N° 1350, Decreto Legislativo de Migraciones
Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo (document library, gob.pe)
About this source
Labour ministry, cited here only as the host of a document library containing a full-text copy of the migration regulation.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Not a consolidating service and not the author of what it hosts. The regulation copy it holds is the original as first published and has since been amended by instruments that insert articles absent from that file, so it is the base text and not the current text. Its own listing mislabels the file.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source