Living on Your Own Money Is a Three-Year Permit with No Right to Work, and the Statute Names No Amount at All
This replaces the general rule for you
Sufficient Resources and Sickness Cover, Measured Against the Greek Minimum Pension and Declared Without a Figure
A Union citizen living in Greece on their own money does not use the sufficient-resources permit of the Immigration Code, with its three-year term, its thousand euro fee and its ban on any work. The right is in article 7(1)(b) of Presidential Decree 106/2007 and belongs to a Union citizen who has sufficient resources for themselves and their family so as not to become a burden on the social assistance system during the period of residence, and comprehensive sickness insurance. Two Greek details make this concrete. The measure of sufficient resources is the amount of the minimum pension granted in Greece, under article 8(3) - a pension rather than a wage or a benefit. And the declaration by which resources are shown need not state the specific amount, which article 8(2)(c) says in terms. Five continuous years of residence on this footing give a right of permanent residence under article 13, free of the conditions in Chapter III.
Greece's route for someone who is not coming to work is paragraph 8 of article 163 of Law 5038/2023, the catch-all article of the Immigration Code: a residence permit of type I.8 for third-country nationals with sufficient resources, granted by the Secretary of the Decentralised Administration where the applicant has sufficient means at the level of a stable annual income to cover living costs. The permit runs for three years and is renewable for the same period. Family members may accompany the holder and the resources condition may be met by each of them separately or by all of them together. The permit gives no right to employment or to independent economic activity of any kind, for the holder or for the spouse or partner or the family. The amount is not in the statute: article 176(1) leaves the supporting documents for every category of permit to a joint ministerial decision, and the figure lives there. The nearest route with a number on its face is the digital nomad title of article 68, where the Code itself fixes sufficient resources at 3,500 euro a month.
At a glance
- Name of the route
- Άδεια διαμονής πολιτών τρίτων χωρών με επαρκείς πόρους διαβίωσης, residence permit type I.8
Article 163(8) of Law 5038/2023.
- Length of the permit
- Three years, renewable for the same period
Article 163(8)(a) of Law 5038/2023.
- How much is enough
- Sufficient resources at the level of a stable annual income; the Code states no figure
Article 163(8)(a) states the test. The amount sits in the joint ministerial decision on supporting documents under article 176(1), which was not read here.
- Working on it
- Not permitted, in any form, for the holder or the family
Article 163(8)(c) of Law 5038/2023, which excludes both employment and independent economic activity.
- Fee
- 1,000 euro
Article 171(1)(h) of Law 5038/2023. It falls to 150 euro for an applicant who receives or is entitled to a pension from a Greek main insurance body.
- Family
- Individual permits expiring with the sponsor's
Article 163(8)(b), under which the resources condition may be satisfied in the person of each family member or cumulatively for all of them.
- The digital nomad alternative
- 3,500 euro a month, raised 20% for a spouse or partner and 15% for each child
Article 68(2)(e) of Law 5038/2023, which is the only income figure the Code itself states.
- What the digital nomad route converts into
- An I.8 permit of two years, not three
Article 68(4) of Law 5038/2023, which grants the same type of permit for a shorter term than article 163(8)(a) gives it.
Requirements
- Sufficient resources at the level of a stable annual income covering living costs
- A national entry visa for the purpose, applied for at a Greek consular authority
- Full sickness insurance covering the risks covered for Greek nationals
- No employment and no independent economic activity in Greece, for you or your family
- A fee of 1,000 euro on the application
Country-level policy
The National Printing House issues the Government Gazette and nothing else. There is no official consolidated edition of any Greek statute, no cut-off date to cite, and no address at which the Immigration Code or the Income Tax Code or the Code of Greek Nationality can be read as it now stands. What there is instead is a drafting convention that does half the job. When a Greek Act amends an article, it usually says which words are replaced and then reprints the whole amended article under the formula "and article N is formed as follows" - so the amending Act carries the current text, and a reader who finds the right amending Act gets a reliable reading of the provision. The cost is that the reader has to know which Act that is. Every record for Greece in this corpus is quoted from the gazette issue that last moved the provision, which is why the Immigration Code is quoted here from four different issues: the 2023 Act for the articles nothing has touched, the 2023 Act that postponed its own commencement, the 2024 Act that replaced the investor article, and the two 2026 Acts that rewrote the work, student, family and long-term residence articles. The ministry's own copy is no help: the PDF of the Code on migration.gov.gr is byte for byte the gazette file.
Law 5038/2023 was published on 1 April 2023 and article 179 set it to come into force on 1 January 2024. It never did on that date: article 97 of Law 5079/2023, passed on 22 December 2023, replaced article 179 and moved commencement to 31 March 2024, taking the regulatory decisions issued under article 176 with it. Since then the Code has been amended at least three times in ways that reach the routes in these records. Article 64 of Law 5100/2024 replaced the investor article in April 2024 and reset the property thresholds. Law 5275/2026, on 6 February 2026, transposed the recast single-permit Directive and reworked some forty articles, among them the admission-volume procedure, the employer-call procedure, the student permit and its hours cap, the ten-year permit, the residence card for the family of a Greek, and article 3 of the free-movement decree. Law 5307/2026, on 11 June 2026, amended the long-term residence article. Anything written about Greek immigration law between April 2023 and March 2024 describes rules that had not started, and anything written before February 2026 describes work and study provisions that have since changed.
What applies to you
Sufficient Resources and Sickness Cover, Measured Against the Greek Minimum Pension and Declared Without a Figure
A Union citizen living in Greece on their own money does not use the sufficient-resources permit of the Immigration Code, with its three-year term, its thousand euro fee and its ban on any work. The right is in article 7(1)(b) of Presidential Decree 106/2007 and belongs to a Union citizen who has sufficient resources for themselves and their family so as not to become a burden on the social assistance system during the period of residence, and comprehensive sickness insurance. Two Greek details make this concrete. The measure of sufficient resources is the amount of the minimum pension granted in Greece, under article 8(3) - a pension rather than a wage or a benefit. And the declaration by which resources are shown need not state the specific amount, which article 8(2)(c) says in terms. Five continuous years of residence on this footing give a right of permanent residence under article 13, free of the conditions in Chapter III.
- A valid identity card or passport of a Union member state
- Sufficient resources so as not to burden the social assistance system during the residence
- Comprehensive sickness insurance
- Registration in person with the aliens police before three months from arrival are out
What the law says
«Άδειες διαμονής πολιτών τρίτων χωρών με επαρκείς πόρους διαβίωσης (άδεια διαμονής τύπου «Ι.8»)»This is the route, and it is filed under the Code's article for residence on other grounds rather than under any chapter of its own.
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«Με απόφαση του Γραμματέα της Αποκεντρωμένης Διοίκησης χορηγείται άδεια διαμονής σε πολίτες τρίτης χώρας, εφόσον οι ενδιαφερόμενοι διαθέτουν επαρκείς πόρους, σε επίπεδο σταθερού ετήσιου εισοδήματος για την κάλυψη των δαπανών διαβίωσης.»No multiple, no benchmark and no amount is named anywhere in the article.
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Cannot be cited for: It consolidates nothing. There is no official edition of any Greek statute as it now stands, no cut-off date to cite, and no address at which the Immigration Code, the Income Tax Code or the Code of Greek Nationality can be read as currently in force. The practical substitute is a drafting convention rather than a service: an amending Act usually reprints the whole amended article under the formula 'και το άρθρο N διαμορφώνεται ως εξής', so the current text of a provision lives in whichever issue last changed it, and the reader has to know which that is. It cannot be cited for the text of any article without first establishing that nothing has amended it. Two mechanical limits matter as well. The gazette has been set in two columns for most of its history, and the project's PDF extraction preserves the physical layout, so in a stored reading a line of the left column is followed immediately by a line of the right one - a quotation taken from an issue of 2024 or earlier has to fit inside a single line of a single column, around fifty characters. The layout changed to a single full-width column during 2025: the 2026 issues read as continuous prose and can be quoted at length. And issues from before roughly 2007 are set in fonts with a non-Unicode encoding: ΦΕΚ Α' 217 of 2004, which carries the Code of Greek Nationality, extracts entirely as Latin-1 mojibake and cannot be quoted at all. Gazette issues also carry one or two physically blank pages before the colophon, which a page-coverage check reports as empty. The host et.gr itself cannot be used: a request for the old /api/DownloadFeksApi/ endpoint is redirected to a bare IP address whose certificate no client can verify.
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«Η άδεια διαμονής έχει διάρκεια τρία (3) έτη και μπορεί να ανανεώνεται για ισόχρονο χρονικό διάστημα.»About this source
Greece's official publisher, a public service under the Presidency of the Government. It prints and circulates the Government Gazette, the Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, in numbered series - Α' for laws, presidential decrees and acts of the Cabinet, Β' for ministerial decisions - and that is the whole of what it publishes. The address that matters is not et.gr. Its search application at search.et.gr builds every PDF link against an Azure storage account, and the live form is https://ia37rg02wpsa01.blob.core.windows.net/fek/<SS>/<YYYY>/<YYYY><SS><NNNNN>.pdf, where SS is the series number zero-padded to two digits, YYYY the year and NNNNN the issue number zero-padded to five: ΦΕΚ Α' 81 of 2023 is /fek/01/2023/20230100081.pdf, and ΦΕΚ Β' 3056 of 2013 is /fek/02/2013/20130203056.pdf. Every issue is a digitally signed PDF naming ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΤΥΠΟΓΡΑΦΕΙΟ as its author, so what is served is the publisher's own artefact and not a mirror.
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Cannot be cited for: It consolidates nothing. There is no official edition of any Greek statute as it now stands, no cut-off date to cite, and no address at which the Immigration Code, the Income Tax Code or the Code of Greek Nationality can be read as currently in force. The practical substitute is a drafting convention rather than a service: an amending Act usually reprints the whole amended article under the formula 'και το άρθρο N διαμορφώνεται ως εξής', so the current text of a provision lives in whichever issue last changed it, and the reader has to know which that is. It cannot be cited for the text of any article without first establishing that nothing has amended it. Two mechanical limits matter as well. The gazette has been set in two columns for most of its history, and the project's PDF extraction preserves the physical layout, so in a stored reading a line of the left column is followed immediately by a line of the right one - a quotation taken from an issue of 2024 or earlier has to fit inside a single line of a single column, around fifty characters. The layout changed to a single full-width column during 2025: the 2026 issues read as continuous prose and can be quoted at length. And issues from before roughly 2007 are set in fonts with a non-Unicode encoding: ΦΕΚ Α' 217 of 2004, which carries the Code of Greek Nationality, extracts entirely as Latin-1 mojibake and cannot be quoted at all. Gazette issues also carry one or two physically blank pages before the colophon, which a page-coverage check reports as empty. The host et.gr itself cannot be used: a request for the old /api/DownloadFeksApi/ endpoint is redirected to a bare IP address whose certificate no client can verify.
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«Η άδεια αυτή δεν παρέχει δικαίωμα εξαρτημένης εργασίας ή ανεξάρτητης οικονομικής δραστηριότητας οιασδήποτε μορφής στην Ελλάδα τόσο για τον συντηρούντα, όσο και για τον/την σύζυγό ή σύντροφό του και τα μέλη της οικογένειάς του.»About this source
Greece's official publisher, a public service under the Presidency of the Government. It prints and circulates the Government Gazette, the Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, in numbered series - Α' for laws, presidential decrees and acts of the Cabinet, Β' for ministerial decisions - and that is the whole of what it publishes. The address that matters is not et.gr. Its search application at search.et.gr builds every PDF link against an Azure storage account, and the live form is https://ia37rg02wpsa01.blob.core.windows.net/fek/<SS>/<YYYY>/<YYYY><SS><NNNNN>.pdf, where SS is the series number zero-padded to two digits, YYYY the year and NNNNN the issue number zero-padded to five: ΦΕΚ Α' 81 of 2023 is /fek/01/2023/20230100081.pdf, and ΦΕΚ Β' 3056 of 2013 is /fek/02/2013/20130203056.pdf. Every issue is a digitally signed PDF naming ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΤΥΠΟΓΡΑΦΕΙΟ as its author, so what is served is the publisher's own artefact and not a mirror.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It consolidates nothing. There is no official edition of any Greek statute as it now stands, no cut-off date to cite, and no address at which the Immigration Code, the Income Tax Code or the Code of Greek Nationality can be read as currently in force. The practical substitute is a drafting convention rather than a service: an amending Act usually reprints the whole amended article under the formula 'και το άρθρο N διαμορφώνεται ως εξής', so the current text of a provision lives in whichever issue last changed it, and the reader has to know which that is. It cannot be cited for the text of any article without first establishing that nothing has amended it. Two mechanical limits matter as well. The gazette has been set in two columns for most of its history, and the project's PDF extraction preserves the physical layout, so in a stored reading a line of the left column is followed immediately by a line of the right one - a quotation taken from an issue of 2024 or earlier has to fit inside a single line of a single column, around fifty characters. The layout changed to a single full-width column during 2025: the 2026 issues read as continuous prose and can be quoted at length. And issues from before roughly 2007 are set in fonts with a non-Unicode encoding: ΦΕΚ Α' 217 of 2004, which carries the Code of Greek Nationality, extracts entirely as Latin-1 mojibake and cannot be quoted at all. Gazette issues also carry one or two physically blank pages before the colophon, which a page-coverage check reports as empty. The host et.gr itself cannot be used: a request for the old /api/DownloadFeksApi/ endpoint is redirected to a bare IP address whose certificate no client can verify.
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«Για τον τύπο άδειας διαμονής «Ι.8» της παρ. 8 του άρθρου 163, σε χίλια (1000) ευρώ, πλην των πολιτών τρίτων χωρών που λαμβάνουν ή δικαιούνται σύνταξη από ελληνικό φορέα κύριας ασφάλισης, για τους οποίους ορίζεται σε εκατόν πενήντα (150) ευρώ.»The fee for the I.8 permit, set at a thousand euro in a list where every other non-investor category is a hundred and fifty.
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Greece's official publisher, a public service under the Presidency of the Government. It prints and circulates the Government Gazette, the Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, in numbered series - Α' for laws, presidential decrees and acts of the Cabinet, Β' for ministerial decisions - and that is the whole of what it publishes. The address that matters is not et.gr. Its search application at search.et.gr builds every PDF link against an Azure storage account, and the live form is https://ia37rg02wpsa01.blob.core.windows.net/fek/<SS>/<YYYY>/<YYYY><SS><NNNNN>.pdf, where SS is the series number zero-padded to two digits, YYYY the year and NNNNN the issue number zero-padded to five: ΦΕΚ Α' 81 of 2023 is /fek/01/2023/20230100081.pdf, and ΦΕΚ Β' 3056 of 2013 is /fek/02/2013/20130203056.pdf. Every issue is a digitally signed PDF naming ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΤΥΠΟΓΡΑΦΕΙΟ as its author, so what is served is the publisher's own artefact and not a mirror.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It consolidates nothing. There is no official edition of any Greek statute as it now stands, no cut-off date to cite, and no address at which the Immigration Code, the Income Tax Code or the Code of Greek Nationality can be read as currently in force. The practical substitute is a drafting convention rather than a service: an amending Act usually reprints the whole amended article under the formula 'και το άρθρο N διαμορφώνεται ως εξής', so the current text of a provision lives in whichever issue last changed it, and the reader has to know which that is. It cannot be cited for the text of any article without first establishing that nothing has amended it. Two mechanical limits matter as well. The gazette has been set in two columns for most of its history, and the project's PDF extraction preserves the physical layout, so in a stored reading a line of the left column is followed immediately by a line of the right one - a quotation taken from an issue of 2024 or earlier has to fit inside a single line of a single column, around fifty characters. The layout changed to a single full-width column during 2025: the 2026 issues read as continuous prose and can be quoted at length. And issues from before roughly 2007 are set in fonts with a non-Unicode encoding: ΦΕΚ Α' 217 of 2004, which carries the Code of Greek Nationality, extracts entirely as Latin-1 mojibake and cannot be quoted at all. Gazette issues also carry one or two physically blank pages before the colophon, which a page-coverage check reports as empty. The host et.gr itself cannot be used: a request for the old /api/DownloadFeksApi/ endpoint is redirected to a bare IP address whose certificate no client can verify.
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«Με κοινή απόφαση των Υπουργών Μετανάστευσης και Ασύλου και Εξωτερικών καθορίζονται τα ειδικά δικαιολογητικά ανά κατηγορία εθνικής θεώρησης και τα δικαιολογητικά που απαιτούνται για την έκδοση των αντίστοιχων αδειών διαμονής του παρόντος Κώδικα.»Where the amount went.
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Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It consolidates nothing. There is no official edition of any Greek statute as it now stands, no cut-off date to cite, and no address at which the Immigration Code, the Income Tax Code or the Code of Greek Nationality can be read as currently in force. The practical substitute is a drafting convention rather than a service: an amending Act usually reprints the whole amended article under the formula 'και το άρθρο N διαμορφώνεται ως εξής', so the current text of a provision lives in whichever issue last changed it, and the reader has to know which that is. It cannot be cited for the text of any article without first establishing that nothing has amended it. Two mechanical limits matter as well. The gazette has been set in two columns for most of its history, and the project's PDF extraction preserves the physical layout, so in a stored reading a line of the left column is followed immediately by a line of the right one - a quotation taken from an issue of 2024 or earlier has to fit inside a single line of a single column, around fifty characters. The layout changed to a single full-width column during 2025: the 2026 issues read as continuous prose and can be quoted at length. And issues from before roughly 2007 are set in fonts with a non-Unicode encoding: ΦΕΚ Α' 217 of 2004, which carries the Code of Greek Nationality, extracts entirely as Latin-1 mojibake and cannot be quoted at all. Gazette issues also carry one or two physically blank pages before the colophon, which a page-coverage check reports as empty. The host et.gr itself cannot be used: a request for the old /api/DownloadFeksApi/ endpoint is redirected to a bare IP address whose certificate no client can verify.
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«Το ύψος των επαρκών πόρων καθορίζεται στις τρεισήμισι χιλιάδες (3.500) ευρώ μηνιαίως και αποδεικνύεται: εα) από τη σύμβαση εργασίας ή έργου ή το αποδεικτικό εργασιακής σχέσης, στην περίπτωση εξαρτημένης εργασίας, υπηρεσιών ή έργου ή εβ) από τραπεζικό λογαριασμό. Αν οι επαρκείς πόροι προέρχονται από μισθωτές υπηρεσίες εξαρτημένης εργασίας, υπηρεσιών ή έργου, το ανωτέρω ελάχιστο ύψος αναφέρεται σε καθαρά έσοδα μετά την καταβολή των απαιτούμενων φόρων στη χώρα παροχής της εργασίας.»The digital nomad threshold, monthly.
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Greece's official publisher, a public service under the Presidency of the Government. It prints and circulates the Government Gazette, the Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, in numbered series - Α' for laws, presidential decrees and acts of the Cabinet, Β' for ministerial decisions - and that is the whole of what it publishes. The address that matters is not et.gr. Its search application at search.et.gr builds every PDF link against an Azure storage account, and the live form is https://ia37rg02wpsa01.blob.core.windows.net/fek/<SS>/<YYYY>/<YYYY><SS><NNNNN>.pdf, where SS is the series number zero-padded to two digits, YYYY the year and NNNNN the issue number zero-padded to five: ΦΕΚ Α' 81 of 2023 is /fek/01/2023/20230100081.pdf, and ΦΕΚ Β' 3056 of 2013 is /fek/02/2013/20130203056.pdf. Every issue is a digitally signed PDF naming ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΤΥΠΟΓΡΑΦΕΙΟ as its author, so what is served is the publisher's own artefact and not a mirror.
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Cannot be cited for: It consolidates nothing. There is no official edition of any Greek statute as it now stands, no cut-off date to cite, and no address at which the Immigration Code, the Income Tax Code or the Code of Greek Nationality can be read as currently in force. The practical substitute is a drafting convention rather than a service: an amending Act usually reprints the whole amended article under the formula 'και το άρθρο N διαμορφώνεται ως εξής', so the current text of a provision lives in whichever issue last changed it, and the reader has to know which that is. It cannot be cited for the text of any article without first establishing that nothing has amended it. Two mechanical limits matter as well. The gazette has been set in two columns for most of its history, and the project's PDF extraction preserves the physical layout, so in a stored reading a line of the left column is followed immediately by a line of the right one - a quotation taken from an issue of 2024 or earlier has to fit inside a single line of a single column, around fifty characters. The layout changed to a single full-width column during 2025: the 2026 issues read as continuous prose and can be quoted at length. And issues from before roughly 2007 are set in fonts with a non-Unicode encoding: ΦΕΚ Α' 217 of 2004, which carries the Code of Greek Nationality, extracts entirely as Latin-1 mojibake and cannot be quoted at all. Gazette issues also carry one or two physically blank pages before the colophon, which a page-coverage check reports as empty. The host et.gr itself cannot be used: a request for the old /api/DownloadFeksApi/ endpoint is redirected to a bare IP address whose certificate no client can verify.
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«Το ανωτέρω ποσό προσαυξάνεται κατά είκοσι τοις εκατό (20%) για τον/τη σύζυγο ή τον/την συμβίο/α και κατά δεκαπέντε τοις εκατό (15%) για κάθε τέκνο,»About this source
Greece's official publisher, a public service under the Presidency of the Government. It prints and circulates the Government Gazette, the Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, in numbered series - Α' for laws, presidential decrees and acts of the Cabinet, Β' for ministerial decisions - and that is the whole of what it publishes. The address that matters is not et.gr. Its search application at search.et.gr builds every PDF link against an Azure storage account, and the live form is https://ia37rg02wpsa01.blob.core.windows.net/fek/<SS>/<YYYY>/<YYYY><SS><NNNNN>.pdf, where SS is the series number zero-padded to two digits, YYYY the year and NNNNN the issue number zero-padded to five: ΦΕΚ Α' 81 of 2023 is /fek/01/2023/20230100081.pdf, and ΦΕΚ Β' 3056 of 2013 is /fek/02/2013/20130203056.pdf. Every issue is a digitally signed PDF naming ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΤΥΠΟΓΡΑΦΕΙΟ as its author, so what is served is the publisher's own artefact and not a mirror.
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Cannot be cited for: It consolidates nothing. There is no official edition of any Greek statute as it now stands, no cut-off date to cite, and no address at which the Immigration Code, the Income Tax Code or the Code of Greek Nationality can be read as currently in force. The practical substitute is a drafting convention rather than a service: an amending Act usually reprints the whole amended article under the formula 'και το άρθρο N διαμορφώνεται ως εξής', so the current text of a provision lives in whichever issue last changed it, and the reader has to know which that is. It cannot be cited for the text of any article without first establishing that nothing has amended it. Two mechanical limits matter as well. The gazette has been set in two columns for most of its history, and the project's PDF extraction preserves the physical layout, so in a stored reading a line of the left column is followed immediately by a line of the right one - a quotation taken from an issue of 2024 or earlier has to fit inside a single line of a single column, around fifty characters. The layout changed to a single full-width column during 2025: the 2026 issues read as continuous prose and can be quoted at length. And issues from before roughly 2007 are set in fonts with a non-Unicode encoding: ΦΕΚ Α' 217 of 2004, which carries the Code of Greek Nationality, extracts entirely as Latin-1 mojibake and cannot be quoted at all. Gazette issues also carry one or two physically blank pages before the colophon, which a page-coverage check reports as empty. The host et.gr itself cannot be used: a request for the old /api/DownloadFeksApi/ endpoint is redirected to a bare IP address whose certificate no client can verify.
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«Εφόσον εξακολουθούν να ισχύουν οι προϋποθέσεις της παρ. 2, με απόφαση του Γραμματέα της Αποκεντρωμένης Διοίκησης δύναται να χορηγείται στον πολίτη τρίτης χώρας και στα μέλη της οικογένειάς του άδεια διαμονής πολιτών τρίτων χωρών με επαρκείς πόρους διαβίωσης της παρ. 8 του άρθρου 163 (άδεια διαμονής τύπου «Ι.8»), διετούς διάρκειας, κατόπιν αίτησης που υποβάλλεται πριν τη λήξη της ισχύος της εθνικής θεώρησης, με την επιφύλαξη του άρθρου 8.»The conversion. Two years, where article 163(8)(a) gives the same permit for three. One statute, one permit type, two terms, and which applies depends on which door the holder came through.
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Greece's official publisher, a public service under the Presidency of the Government. It prints and circulates the Government Gazette, the Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, in numbered series - Α' for laws, presidential decrees and acts of the Cabinet, Β' for ministerial decisions - and that is the whole of what it publishes. The address that matters is not et.gr. Its search application at search.et.gr builds every PDF link against an Azure storage account, and the live form is https://ia37rg02wpsa01.blob.core.windows.net/fek/<SS>/<YYYY>/<YYYY><SS><NNNNN>.pdf, where SS is the series number zero-padded to two digits, YYYY the year and NNNNN the issue number zero-padded to five: ΦΕΚ Α' 81 of 2023 is /fek/01/2023/20230100081.pdf, and ΦΕΚ Β' 3056 of 2013 is /fek/02/2013/20130203056.pdf. Every issue is a digitally signed PDF naming ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΤΥΠΟΓΡΑΦΕΙΟ as its author, so what is served is the publisher's own artefact and not a mirror.
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Cannot be cited for: It consolidates nothing. There is no official edition of any Greek statute as it now stands, no cut-off date to cite, and no address at which the Immigration Code, the Income Tax Code or the Code of Greek Nationality can be read as currently in force. The practical substitute is a drafting convention rather than a service: an amending Act usually reprints the whole amended article under the formula 'και το άρθρο N διαμορφώνεται ως εξής', so the current text of a provision lives in whichever issue last changed it, and the reader has to know which that is. It cannot be cited for the text of any article without first establishing that nothing has amended it. Two mechanical limits matter as well. The gazette has been set in two columns for most of its history, and the project's PDF extraction preserves the physical layout, so in a stored reading a line of the left column is followed immediately by a line of the right one - a quotation taken from an issue of 2024 or earlier has to fit inside a single line of a single column, around fifty characters. The layout changed to a single full-width column during 2025: the 2026 issues read as continuous prose and can be quoted at length. And issues from before roughly 2007 are set in fonts with a non-Unicode encoding: ΦΕΚ Α' 217 of 2004, which carries the Code of Greek Nationality, extracts entirely as Latin-1 mojibake and cannot be quoted at all. Gazette issues also carry one or two physically blank pages before the colophon, which a page-coverage check reports as empty. The host et.gr itself cannot be used: a request for the old /api/DownloadFeksApi/ endpoint is redirected to a bare IP address whose certificate no client can verify.
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Practical notes
The Code was read for every category of long stay it opens. Article 9 lists them by type letter and article 163 collects the ones that fit no chapter; the only one addressed to a person living on their own money is paragraph 8 of article 163, and the only cognate ones are the digital nomad title of article 68 and the intellectual-creator title of article 70.
This permit cannot be worked on at all. That is a harder rule than the family-reunification or long-stay categories, and it is in the same paragraph as the resources test rather than in a separate provision a reader might miss.
Law 5275/2026 rewrote large parts of the Immigration Code in February 2026 and did not touch article 163(8). It added a new paragraph 9 to article 163, a second-chance permit of type I.9 for people who once held a residence title for at least five years, which is a different thing.
- issuesΝόμος 5038/2023, Κώδικας Μετανάστευσης, ΦΕΚ Α' 81/01.04.2023
Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο (National Printing House), Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως
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Greece's official publisher, a public service under the Presidency of the Government. It prints and circulates the Government Gazette, the Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, in numbered series - Α' for laws, presidential decrees and acts of the Cabinet, Β' for ministerial decisions - and that is the whole of what it publishes. The address that matters is not et.gr. Its search application at search.et.gr builds every PDF link against an Azure storage account, and the live form is https://ia37rg02wpsa01.blob.core.windows.net/fek/<SS>/<YYYY>/<YYYY><SS><NNNNN>.pdf, where SS is the series number zero-padded to two digits, YYYY the year and NNNNN the issue number zero-padded to five: ΦΕΚ Α' 81 of 2023 is /fek/01/2023/20230100081.pdf, and ΦΕΚ Β' 3056 of 2013 is /fek/02/2013/20130203056.pdf. Every issue is a digitally signed PDF naming ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΤΥΠΟΓΡΑΦΕΙΟ as its author, so what is served is the publisher's own artefact and not a mirror.
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Cannot be cited for: It consolidates nothing. There is no official edition of any Greek statute as it now stands, no cut-off date to cite, and no address at which the Immigration Code, the Income Tax Code or the Code of Greek Nationality can be read as currently in force. The practical substitute is a drafting convention rather than a service: an amending Act usually reprints the whole amended article under the formula 'και το άρθρο N διαμορφώνεται ως εξής', so the current text of a provision lives in whichever issue last changed it, and the reader has to know which that is. It cannot be cited for the text of any article without first establishing that nothing has amended it. Two mechanical limits matter as well. The gazette has been set in two columns for most of its history, and the project's PDF extraction preserves the physical layout, so in a stored reading a line of the left column is followed immediately by a line of the right one - a quotation taken from an issue of 2024 or earlier has to fit inside a single line of a single column, around fifty characters. The layout changed to a single full-width column during 2025: the 2026 issues read as continuous prose and can be quoted at length. And issues from before roughly 2007 are set in fonts with a non-Unicode encoding: ΦΕΚ Α' 217 of 2004, which carries the Code of Greek Nationality, extracts entirely as Latin-1 mojibake and cannot be quoted at all. Gazette issues also carry one or two physically blank pages before the colophon, which a page-coverage check reports as empty. The host et.gr itself cannot be used: a request for the old /api/DownloadFeksApi/ endpoint is redirected to a bare IP address whose certificate no client can verify.
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