Familiar de Residente Status for Family Members
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Ecuador on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Ecuador to Peru · Residency through marriage
Family of a Peruvian or of a foreign resident get a residence status that permits work from the outset, dependent or independent, with no separate permit. How long it lasts depends on whose family you are: up to two years for the family of a Peruvian, one year for the family of a foreign resident. Since 2023 Migraciones has an express power to assess how solid a marriage or civil partnership is before granting the status, and the amended law ties the family member's permission to the resident's own.
At a glance
- Family of a Peruvian
- Up to 2 years
- Family of a foreign resident
- 1 year
- Work
- Permitted, dependent or independent, without a further permit
- On separation or death
- The holder does not lose the status already granted
- Relationship scrutiny
- Migraciones may assess the solidity of the marriage or partnershipas of 2023-11-14
Added by Decreto Legislativo 1582
- Alternative status on losing the link
- Especial Residente, extendable onceas of 2023-11-14
Requirements
- A proven family link with a Peruvian national or with a foreign resident in Peru
- Where the link is with a foreign resident, that person must be in a regular migration situation
- Migraciones may assess the solidity of the marriage or civil partnership before granting the status
- The status may be taken as a dependant, or the family member may apply for a different status in their own right
- The status is not lost on the death of, abandonment by, or separation from the principal holder
In detail
Work from the first day, which is not the regional norm
The status expressly permits paid work, employed or self-employed, with no further permit. Argentina's family reunification route also permits work but ties a resident's family member's permission to the resident's own; Colombia's spouse visa is built around proving cohabitation rather than around the certificate. Peru's distinctive feature is the combination: immediate work rights, a protective rule that survives separation or death, and since 2023 an express discretion to test whether the relationship is real.
Country-level policy
Every Peruvian residence status, including the indefinite ones, is lost by a long enough absence - and the test is continuous absence, not a quota of days you must spend here. More than 183 consecutive days out of the country in a 365-day period, counted from your first departure, ends the status. There is a permit that suspends the rule, and it has to be applied for before the 183 days are up, which is the part that is usually discovered too late.
Most changes of migration status from inside Peru, and every naturalisation application, require a Ficha de Canje Internacional - a record check issued by Interpol's Lima office, valid for six months. Peru's competition authority twice declared it an illegal bureaucratic barrier, and a Lima court then suspended those rulings at the interior ministry's request. Migraciones has been asking for it again since June 2024. The practical lesson is that Peruvian procedure requirements can be removed and reinstated by bodies other than the one running the procedure.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Ecuador
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
«Es potestad de MIGRACIONES evaluar la solvencia/arraigo del vínculo matrimonial o unión de hecho, para el otorgamiento de esta calidad migratoria.»Our translation - not official
It is within MIGRACIONES' power to assess the solidity and rootedness of the marriage bond or civil partnership for the granting of this migration status.
New in 2023 and absent from the 2017 text. It converts a documentary check into a discretionary one, and the law gives no criteria - the regulation is left to set the grounds on which the status ends.
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Peru's official gazette. An act takes effect on publication here.
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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 granted and the period of stay is up to two (02) years for family members of Peruvians and one (01) year for family members of foreign residents.
The regulation's two-tier split. The law as amended in 2023 states instead that the period of stay is the same as the resident's own, so for the family of a foreign resident the two texts no longer say the same thing.
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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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«89.4. En caso de muerte, abandono o separación, la persona titular no pierde la calidad migratoria otorgada.»Our translation - not official
89.4. In the event of death, abandonment or separation, the holder does not lose the migration status granted.
A protective rule of the kind that decides whether a dependent spouse can leave a marriage. The 2023 amendment adds a further route for the same situation: an Especial Residente status for those who lose the marital link.
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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 ser familiar de una persona extranjera residente no obliga a que deba obtener la calidad como dependiente del titular, puede optar por otras calidades migratorias establecidas en el Decreto Legislativo, de ser el caso.»Our translation - not official
Being a family member of a foreign resident does not oblige you to take the status as a dependant of the holder; you may opt for other migration statuses established in the Legislative Decree, where applicable.
Worth reading before defaulting to the dependent route: a spouse with their own job offer or income may be better served by a status that does not expire with someone else's.
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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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Practical notes
The definition of who counts as family sits in article 38 of the migration law, which we have not read; the regulation refers to it rather than restating it.
The grounds on which the status ends are left by the amended law to the regulation, and the regulation has not been rewritten since, so the two texts are not aligned on either duration or termination.
For a family member of a Peruvian, the amended law states that the period of stay remains valid so long as none of the termination grounds in the regulation applies.
- reportsReglamento del Decreto Legislativo N° 1350 - Anexo del Decreto Supremo 007-2017-IN
Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo (document library, gob.pe)
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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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- issuesDecreto Legislativo 1582, modifying Decreto Legislativo 1350
Diario Oficial El Peruano
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Peru's official gazette. An act takes effect on publication here.
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