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Twelve Months Here Before You Can Send for Anyone, Unless the Sponsor Is a Union Citizen - or Luxembourgish

Answer

The general rule applies to you

No exception is recorded for citizens of Argentina on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.

147 exceptions recorded across 54 countries · none match Argentina to Luxembourg · Residency through marriage

Family reunification for a third-country sponsor is article 69 of the Act of 29 August 2008, and it front-loads the conditions on the person already here: a residence title valid for at least a year, a well-founded prospect of long-term residence, twelve months of residence in Luxembourg, stable regular and sufficient resources without recourse to social assistance, suitable housing, and sickness insurance for the whole family. Article 70 then says who may come: the spouse, the registered partner, and unmarried children under eighteen as of right; dependent first-degree ascendants and adult children objectively unable to support themselves because of their health at the minister's discretion. A beneficiary of international protection is excused the article 69(1) conditions if the application comes within six months of the grant. Where the sponsor is a Union citizen the file moves to chapter 2 and becomes a registration rather than an authorisation - and article 12(3) puts the family of a Luxembourgish citizen on exactly that footing too.

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At a glance

How long the sponsor must have been here
At least twelve months

Article 69(1) of the Act of 29 August 2008; article 69(2) repeats the twelve months for the discretionary relatives in article 70(5).

Who may come as of right
Spouse, registered partner, and unmarried children under eighteen of the sponsor or the spouse or partner

Article 70(1).

Who may come at the minister's discretion
Dependent first-degree ascendants deprived of family support in their country of origin, and adult unmarried children objectively unable to support themselves on health grounds

Article 70(5) points a) and b).

Minimum age for a spouse or partner
Eighteen, for both of them, at the date of the application

Article 70(2).

Polygamous marriage
No reunification of a second spouse where one already lives here

Article 70(3).

Resources benchmark
The unqualified minimum social wage, which the sponsor must have and keep

Article 6(1) of the grand-ducal regulation of 5 September 2008, which also asks for a forward-looking view over the year after the application and lets the minister look at the six months before it.

Evidence period for the resources
The twelve months before the application

Article 6(3) of the same regulation.

If the sponsor is a Union citizen or Luxembourgish
A residence card applied for at the commune within three months of arrival, not a ministerial authorisation

Article 15(1) of the Act of 29 August 2008; article 12(3) assimilates the family of a Luxembourgish citizen to the family of a Union citizen.

Requirements

  • A sponsor holding a residence title valid for at least a year, with a well-founded prospect of long-term residence
  • Twelve months of residence in Luxembourg by the sponsor
  • Stable, regular and sufficient resources, judged against the unqualified minimum social wage
  • Suitable housing for the family
  • Sickness insurance for the sponsor and the family
  • Both spouses or partners over eighteen at the date of the application

Country-level policy

Every Income Test for a Residence Permit Is Pegged to One of Two Benchmarks, and One of Them Names a Law Repealed in 2018

The Act of 29 August 2008 almost never states an amount. It requires resources and leaves a grand-ducal regulation to measure them, and that regulation - consolidated to 1 July 2024 - uses two benchmarks. The first is the salaire social minimum for an unskilled worker, which it applies to the private-reasons permit, to family reunification, to long-term resident status and to short-stay means. The second is the revenu minimum garanti, which it caps the free-movement resources test at and sets the student threshold as 80 per cent of. The revenu minimum garanti no longer exists: the Act of 28 July 2018 repealed the Act of 29 April 1999 that created it, and the Code de la sécurité sociale instructs readers that wherever a legal or regulatory text uses the term, the revenu d'inclusion sociale is to be read instead. Guichet.lu already describes the test in the new benefit's name while the regulation still names the old one.

What applies to you

Nothing changes for a citizen of Argentina

We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.

What the law says

Text layer - verbatim verifiedLoi modifiée du 29 août 2008 sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration · Article 69, paragraphe (1) · consolidated to 2026-06-12
«Le ressortissant de pays tiers qui est titulaire d’un titre de séjour d’une durée de validité d’au moins un an et qui a une perspective fondée d’obtenir un droit de séjour de longue durée»

The gate is on the sponsor, and "perspective fondée" is a judgement about the future rather than a fact about the present.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedLoi modifiée du 29 août 2008 sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration · Article 69, paragraphe (1), point 1 · consolidated to 2026-06-12
«1. il rapporte la preuve qu’il dispose de ressources stables, régulières et suffisantes pour subvenir à ses propres besoins et ceux des membres de sa famille qui sont à sa charge, sans recourir au système d’aide sociale, conformément aux conditions et modalités prévues par règlement grand-ducal;»

The resources condition, measured by the regulation rather than by the Act.

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Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are documentary. The Journal officiel as published is what has legal force, and the Code de la sécurité sociale prints that on its own notes page. The two manifestations of one consolidation are not the same document: the HTML carries the change markers and the amending-act headings - 'Art. 78. (L du 21 avril 2023)' - and breaks sentences with marker digits like '145 > quinze heures 145 <', while the PDF prints clean article text and drops both the markers and the headings. A quotation has to be taken from whichever one the sentence survives in. The consolidations also carry defects of their own: article 33 of the Act of 29 August 2008 is printed twice over in both manifestations, once as the original single sentence and once again as paragraph (1) with the same words. It cannot be cited for the income tax Act at all - it holds consolidation metadata for the Act of 4 December 1967 up to 1 February 2026 but serves no document for any consolidation after 2011, so the only current coordinated text of it is the tax administration's. Code recueils are PDF-only, and two of them set the publisher's own apparatus inside the text column: the Code de la sécurité sociale prints source references like 'L. 27.7.92' mid-sentence, and the Code de la route prints case-law annotations frozen at 2 September 2013 alongside articles consolidated to 2026. The Legilux record of the loi d'adaptation fiscale of 16 October 1934 tags its expression as French while the text it serves is German from beginning to end.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedLoi modifiée du 29 août 2008 sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration · Article 70, paragraphe (1), point a) · consolidated to 2026-06-12
«a) le conjoint du regroupant;»

The spouse, first in the list of those admitted as of right.

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Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are documentary. The Journal officiel as published is what has legal force, and the Code de la sécurité sociale prints that on its own notes page. The two manifestations of one consolidation are not the same document: the HTML carries the change markers and the amending-act headings - 'Art. 78. (L du 21 avril 2023)' - and breaks sentences with marker digits like '145 > quinze heures 145 <', while the PDF prints clean article text and drops both the markers and the headings. A quotation has to be taken from whichever one the sentence survives in. The consolidations also carry defects of their own: article 33 of the Act of 29 August 2008 is printed twice over in both manifestations, once as the original single sentence and once again as paragraph (1) with the same words. It cannot be cited for the income tax Act at all - it holds consolidation metadata for the Act of 4 December 1967 up to 1 February 2026 but serves no document for any consolidation after 2011, so the only current coordinated text of it is the tax administration's. Code recueils are PDF-only, and two of them set the publisher's own apparatus inside the text column: the Code de la sécurité sociale prints source references like 'L. 27.7.92' mid-sentence, and the Code de la route prints case-law annotations frozen at 2 September 2013 alongside articles consolidated to 2026. The Legilux record of the loi d'adaptation fiscale of 16 October 1934 tags its expression as French while the text it serves is German from beginning to end.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedLoi modifiée du 29 août 2008 sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration · Article 70, paragraphe (1), point c) · consolidated to 2026-06-12
«c) les enfants célibataires de moins de dix-huit ans, du regroupant et/ou de son conjoint ou partenaire, tel que défini au point b) qui précède, à condition d’en avoir le droit de garde et la charge, et en cas de garde partagée, à la condition que l’autre titulaire du droit de garde ait donné son accord.»

Custody and maintenance, and in shared custody the other parent's agreement, are inside the condition.

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Luxembourg's official legal publisher, run by the Service central de législation. It issues the Journal officiel and, separately, textes coordonnés. Everything is addressed by ELI, and the address that matters is on the data host rather than the site: legilux.public.lu is an Angular single-page application that answers every address with the same 2,118-byte shell, while data.legilux.public.lu serves the documents. The live forms are data.legilux.public.lu/eli/<type>/<yyyy>/<mm>/<dd>/<id>/jo/fr/{html,pdf} for an act as published and .../consolide/<YYYYMMDD>/fr/{html,pdf} for a consolidation, where the date must be an exact consolidation date - any other date answers 404. Codes are addressed differently again, as /eli/etat/leg/code/<name>/<YYYYMMDD>/fr/pdf. The same host answers an Accept: application/rdf+xml request for any ELI with the record's metadata, and there is a SPARQL endpoint at data.legilux.public.lu/sparqlendpoint which is how a consolidation date is found rather than guessed: ?v jolux:isMemberOf <work ELI> ; jolux:dateApplicability ?d returns every consolidation of an act.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are documentary. The Journal officiel as published is what has legal force, and the Code de la sécurité sociale prints that on its own notes page. The two manifestations of one consolidation are not the same document: the HTML carries the change markers and the amending-act headings - 'Art. 78. (L du 21 avril 2023)' - and breaks sentences with marker digits like '145 > quinze heures 145 <', while the PDF prints clean article text and drops both the markers and the headings. A quotation has to be taken from whichever one the sentence survives in. The consolidations also carry defects of their own: article 33 of the Act of 29 August 2008 is printed twice over in both manifestations, once as the original single sentence and once again as paragraph (1) with the same words. It cannot be cited for the income tax Act at all - it holds consolidation metadata for the Act of 4 December 1967 up to 1 February 2026 but serves no document for any consolidation after 2011, so the only current coordinated text of it is the tax administration's. Code recueils are PDF-only, and two of them set the publisher's own apparatus inside the text column: the Code de la sécurité sociale prints source references like 'L. 27.7.92' mid-sentence, and the Code de la route prints case-law annotations frozen at 2 September 2013 alongside articles consolidated to 2026. The Legilux record of the loi d'adaptation fiscale of 16 October 1934 tags its expression as French while the text it serves is German from beginning to end.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedLoi modifiée du 29 août 2008 sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration · Article 12, paragraphe (3) · consolidated to 2026-06-12
«Les membres de la famille, citoyens de l’Union ou ressortissants de pays tiers, d’un citoyen luxembourgeois sont assimilés aux membres de la famille du citoyen de l’Union.»

One sentence that removes the reverse-discrimination problem: a Luxembourger's third-country spouse is treated under the free-movement chapter, not under chapter 3.

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Luxembourg's official legal publisher, run by the Service central de législation. It issues the Journal officiel and, separately, textes coordonnés. Everything is addressed by ELI, and the address that matters is on the data host rather than the site: legilux.public.lu is an Angular single-page application that answers every address with the same 2,118-byte shell, while data.legilux.public.lu serves the documents. The live forms are data.legilux.public.lu/eli/<type>/<yyyy>/<mm>/<dd>/<id>/jo/fr/{html,pdf} for an act as published and .../consolide/<YYYYMMDD>/fr/{html,pdf} for a consolidation, where the date must be an exact consolidation date - any other date answers 404. Codes are addressed differently again, as /eli/etat/leg/code/<name>/<YYYYMMDD>/fr/pdf. The same host answers an Accept: application/rdf+xml request for any ELI with the record's metadata, and there is a SPARQL endpoint at data.legilux.public.lu/sparqlendpoint which is how a consolidation date is found rather than guessed: ?v jolux:isMemberOf <work ELI> ; jolux:dateApplicability ?d returns every consolidation of an act.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are documentary. The Journal officiel as published is what has legal force, and the Code de la sécurité sociale prints that on its own notes page. The two manifestations of one consolidation are not the same document: the HTML carries the change markers and the amending-act headings - 'Art. 78. (L du 21 avril 2023)' - and breaks sentences with marker digits like '145 > quinze heures 145 <', while the PDF prints clean article text and drops both the markers and the headings. A quotation has to be taken from whichever one the sentence survives in. The consolidations also carry defects of their own: article 33 of the Act of 29 August 2008 is printed twice over in both manifestations, once as the original single sentence and once again as paragraph (1) with the same words. It cannot be cited for the income tax Act at all - it holds consolidation metadata for the Act of 4 December 1967 up to 1 February 2026 but serves no document for any consolidation after 2011, so the only current coordinated text of it is the tax administration's. Code recueils are PDF-only, and two of them set the publisher's own apparatus inside the text column: the Code de la sécurité sociale prints source references like 'L. 27.7.92' mid-sentence, and the Code de la route prints case-law annotations frozen at 2 September 2013 alongside articles consolidated to 2026. The Legilux record of the loi d'adaptation fiscale of 16 October 1934 tags its expression as French while the text it serves is German from beginning to end.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedLoi modifiée du 29 août 2008 sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration · Article 15, paragraphe (1) · consolidated to 2026-06-12
«Pour un séjour d’une durée supérieure à trois mois, les membres de la famille du citoyen de l’Union doivent soit se faire enregistrer, s’ils sont eux-mêmes citoyens de l’Union, soit, s’ils sont ressortissants d’un pays tiers, faire une demande de carte de séjour, dans les trois mois suivant leur arrivée, auprès de l’administration communale du lieu de leur résidence»

A formality at the commune after arrival, against an authorisation obtained before departure in chapter 3. The difference between the two regimes is mostly this.

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Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are documentary. The Journal officiel as published is what has legal force, and the Code de la sécurité sociale prints that on its own notes page. The two manifestations of one consolidation are not the same document: the HTML carries the change markers and the amending-act headings - 'Art. 78. (L du 21 avril 2023)' - and breaks sentences with marker digits like '145 > quinze heures 145 <', while the PDF prints clean article text and drops both the markers and the headings. A quotation has to be taken from whichever one the sentence survives in. The consolidations also carry defects of their own: article 33 of the Act of 29 August 2008 is printed twice over in both manifestations, once as the original single sentence and once again as paragraph (1) with the same words. It cannot be cited for the income tax Act at all - it holds consolidation metadata for the Act of 4 December 1967 up to 1 February 2026 but serves no document for any consolidation after 2011, so the only current coordinated text of it is the tax administration's. Code recueils are PDF-only, and two of them set the publisher's own apparatus inside the text column: the Code de la sécurité sociale prints source references like 'L. 27.7.92' mid-sentence, and the Code de la route prints case-law annotations frozen at 2 September 2013 alongside articles consolidated to 2026. The Legilux record of the loi d'adaptation fiscale of 16 October 1934 tags its expression as French while the text it serves is German from beginning to end.

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Text layer - verbatim verifiedRèglement grand-ducal modifié du 5 septembre 2008 définissant les critères de ressources et de logement prévus par la loi du 29 août 2008 sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration · Article 6, paragraphe (1) · consolidated to 2024-07-01
«Pour l'application de l’article 69, paragraphe (1), point 1 de la loi , le montant des ressources du ressortissant de pays tiers qui sollicite le regroupement familial des membres de sa famille est apprécié par référence au salaire social minimum pour salariés non qualifiés dont doit disposer et continuer à disposer le regroupant.»

"Dont doit disposer et continuer à disposer" - the test is not met once and banked.

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Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are documentary. The Journal officiel as published is what has legal force, and the Code de la sécurité sociale prints that on its own notes page. The two manifestations of one consolidation are not the same document: the HTML carries the change markers and the amending-act headings - 'Art. 78. (L du 21 avril 2023)' - and breaks sentences with marker digits like '145 > quinze heures 145 <', while the PDF prints clean article text and drops both the markers and the headings. A quotation has to be taken from whichever one the sentence survives in. The consolidations also carry defects of their own: article 33 of the Act of 29 August 2008 is printed twice over in both manifestations, once as the original single sentence and once again as paragraph (1) with the same words. It cannot be cited for the income tax Act at all - it holds consolidation metadata for the Act of 4 December 1967 up to 1 February 2026 but serves no document for any consolidation after 2011, so the only current coordinated text of it is the tax administration's. Code recueils are PDF-only, and two of them set the publisher's own apparatus inside the text column: the Code de la sécurité sociale prints source references like 'L. 27.7.92' mid-sentence, and the Code de la route prints case-law annotations frozen at 2 September 2013 alongside articles consolidated to 2026. The Legilux record of the loi d'adaptation fiscale of 16 October 1934 tags its expression as French while the text it serves is German from beginning to end.

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Practical notes

Marriage to a Luxembourger is not by itself a residence category in chapter 3 of the Act. It takes the file into chapter 2 by way of article 12(3), where the question becomes registration rather than admission.

Article 69(3) exempts a beneficiary of international protection from the article 69(1) conditions where the application is made within six months of the grant.

Marriage also opens nationality by option under article 25 of the Act of 8 March 2017, which has no residence requirement of its own but requires the Luxembourgish-language examination and the citizenship course, and three years of marriage where the couple does not live in Luxembourg.

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  • consolidates
    Loi du 29 août 2008 sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration, consolidated text applicable from 12 June 2026

    Legilux, Journal officiel du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg · consolidated to 2026-06-12

    Known to be out of date. A Legilux consolidation is a documentary text; the Journal officiel as published is what has legal force. This manifestation is the PDF, which prints the article text without the change markers and the amending-act headings the HTML manifestation of the same consolidation carries.

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    Luxembourg's official legal publisher, run by the Service central de législation. It issues the Journal officiel and, separately, textes coordonnés. Everything is addressed by ELI, and the address that matters is on the data host rather than the site: legilux.public.lu is an Angular single-page application that answers every address with the same 2,118-byte shell, while data.legilux.public.lu serves the documents. The live forms are data.legilux.public.lu/eli/<type>/<yyyy>/<mm>/<dd>/<id>/jo/fr/{html,pdf} for an act as published and .../consolide/<YYYYMMDD>/fr/{html,pdf} for a consolidation, where the date must be an exact consolidation date - any other date answers 404. Codes are addressed differently again, as /eli/etat/leg/code/<name>/<YYYYMMDD>/fr/pdf. The same host answers an Accept: application/rdf+xml request for any ELI with the record's metadata, and there is a SPARQL endpoint at data.legilux.public.lu/sparqlendpoint which is how a consolidation date is found rather than guessed: ?v jolux:isMemberOf <work ELI> ; jolux:dateApplicability ?d returns every consolidation of an act.

    Standing: Maintains the text in force

    Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are documentary. The Journal officiel as published is what has legal force, and the Code de la sécurité sociale prints that on its own notes page. The two manifestations of one consolidation are not the same document: the HTML carries the change markers and the amending-act headings - 'Art. 78. (L du 21 avril 2023)' - and breaks sentences with marker digits like '145 > quinze heures 145 <', while the PDF prints clean article text and drops both the markers and the headings. A quotation has to be taken from whichever one the sentence survives in. The consolidations also carry defects of their own: article 33 of the Act of 29 August 2008 is printed twice over in both manifestations, once as the original single sentence and once again as paragraph (1) with the same words. It cannot be cited for the income tax Act at all - it holds consolidation metadata for the Act of 4 December 1967 up to 1 February 2026 but serves no document for any consolidation after 2011, so the only current coordinated text of it is the tax administration's. Code recueils are PDF-only, and two of them set the publisher's own apparatus inside the text column: the Code de la sécurité sociale prints source references like 'L. 27.7.92' mid-sentence, and the Code de la route prints case-law annotations frozen at 2 September 2013 alongside articles consolidated to 2026. The Legilux record of the loi d'adaptation fiscale of 16 October 1934 tags its expression as French while the text it serves is German from beginning to end.

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  • consolidates
    Règlement grand-ducal du 5 septembre 2008 on the resources and housing criteria, consolidated text applicable from 1 July 2024

    Legilux, Journal officiel du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg · consolidated to 2024-07-01

    About this source

    Luxembourg's official legal publisher, run by the Service central de législation. It issues the Journal officiel and, separately, textes coordonnés. Everything is addressed by ELI, and the address that matters is on the data host rather than the site: legilux.public.lu is an Angular single-page application that answers every address with the same 2,118-byte shell, while data.legilux.public.lu serves the documents. The live forms are data.legilux.public.lu/eli/<type>/<yyyy>/<mm>/<dd>/<id>/jo/fr/{html,pdf} for an act as published and .../consolide/<YYYYMMDD>/fr/{html,pdf} for a consolidation, where the date must be an exact consolidation date - any other date answers 404. Codes are addressed differently again, as /eli/etat/leg/code/<name>/<YYYYMMDD>/fr/pdf. The same host answers an Accept: application/rdf+xml request for any ELI with the record's metadata, and there is a SPARQL endpoint at data.legilux.public.lu/sparqlendpoint which is how a consolidation date is found rather than guessed: ?v jolux:isMemberOf <work ELI> ; jolux:dateApplicability ?d returns every consolidation of an act.

    Standing: Maintains the text in force

    Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are documentary. The Journal officiel as published is what has legal force, and the Code de la sécurité sociale prints that on its own notes page. The two manifestations of one consolidation are not the same document: the HTML carries the change markers and the amending-act headings - 'Art. 78. (L du 21 avril 2023)' - and breaks sentences with marker digits like '145 > quinze heures 145 <', while the PDF prints clean article text and drops both the markers and the headings. A quotation has to be taken from whichever one the sentence survives in. The consolidations also carry defects of their own: article 33 of the Act of 29 August 2008 is printed twice over in both manifestations, once as the original single sentence and once again as paragraph (1) with the same words. It cannot be cited for the income tax Act at all - it holds consolidation metadata for the Act of 4 December 1967 up to 1 February 2026 but serves no document for any consolidation after 2011, so the only current coordinated text of it is the tax administration's. Code recueils are PDF-only, and two of them set the publisher's own apparatus inside the text column: the Code de la sécurité sociale prints source references like 'L. 27.7.92' mid-sentence, and the Code de la route prints case-law annotations frozen at 2 September 2013 alongside articles consolidated to 2026. The Legilux record of the loi d'adaptation fiscale of 16 October 1934 tags its expression as French while the text it serves is German from beginning to end.

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