One Regime Reaches Germany From Outside, and It Does Not Reach This Corpus
Germany belongs to the European Union's free movement regime, which reaches nationals of member states, of the European Economic Area and of Switzerland and nobody in this corpus. There is no agreement between Germany and any Latin American or Caribbean state that lets a national enter and stay on nationality. What the Union does decide for a reader here is the visa at the border, and nothing after it.
At a glance
- A regional movement treaty that reaches Latin America
- None
- The Union regime
- Reaches member states, the European Economic Area and Switzerland
- What is decided at Union level
- The visa, the customs relief on a move, and the right to a basic account
- What Germany decides alone
- Every residence title, naturalisation, health insurance and driving
Exceptions by origin
No exceptions recorded
Nothing we have read treats any nationality differently for this topic. The rule above applies to everyone.
What the law says
«Nationals of third countries listed in Annex I shall be required to be in possession of a visa when crossing the external borders of the Member States.»Quoted to show the extent of what the Union decides for a third-country national: the visa, and nothing about staying.
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The Union's legal database. Publishes each act as adopted in the Official Journal and, separately, a consolidated version carrying every amendment to a stated date, identified as 0YYYYRNNNN-YYYYMMDD. The consolidated text marks each amended passage with the instrument that changed it.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text is explicitly not authentic - EUR-Lex says so on the document - and only the Official Journal version has legal force. It also says nothing about how any member state applies the act: a regulation is directly applicable but the border practice, the evidence an officer may ask for and the national exceptions are in national law, which is published elsewhere.
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Practical notes
This record says what is not there. The movement answer is on the entry, work and family records.
Germany has bilateral social security agreements with several states of the region; those belong to the topic they govern and are not recorded here.
- consolidatesRegulation (EU) 2018/1806, consolidated version
EUR-Lex, Publications Office of the European Union · consolidated to 2025-12-30
About this source
The Union's legal database. Publishes each act as adopted in the Official Journal and, separately, a consolidated version carrying every amendment to a stated date, identified as 0YYYYRNNNN-YYYYMMDD. The consolidated text marks each amended passage with the instrument that changed it.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text is explicitly not authentic - EUR-Lex says so on the document - and only the Official Journal version has legal force. It also says nothing about how any member state applies the act: a regulation is directly applicable but the border practice, the evidence an officer may ask for and the national exceptions are in national law, which is published elsewhere.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source