Free Movement Is a Registration, Not a Permit - and the Act Keeps a Whole Separate Chapter for British Citizens Under the Withdrawal Agreement
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
154 exceptions recorded across 56 countries · none match Saint Kitts and Nevis to Slovenia · Residency under a regional treaty
Chapter XIII of ZTuj-2, articles 117 to 140, carries free movement. A Union citizen needs no entry permission at all and travels on an identity card or a passport; entry may be refused only for a missing document, a subsisting entry ban, or a serious and genuine threat to public order, security or public health, and public health is defined by reference to the World Health Organization's international health regulations. Ninety days may be spent without registering; beyond that the citizen must register at any administrative unit before the ninety days are up. Registration is granted on the ground of work, self-employment, service provision, job-seeking, study, or being a family member - and in every other case on means not below the social assistance level and health insurance. After five years of continuous lawful residence the right to permanent residence arises, and article 126(2) is unusually explicit about what does not break the five years: absences of up to six months a year, one absence of up to twelve consecutive months for pregnancy, birth, serious illness, study, vocational training or a posting, and military service. Chapter XIII.A, articles 141.a to 141.l, is a separate scheme for British citizens and their family members covered by the Withdrawal Agreement, down to a certificate of frontier worker rights.
At a glance
- Entry document
- A valid identity card or passport
Article 118(2) of ZTuj-2. No visa and no residence permit is needed, which article 118(1) says in terms.
- Stay without registering
- 90 days from the day of entry
Article 119(1) of ZTuj-2, which also requires registration before those days are up if the stay will be longer.
- Means where there is no other ground
- Not below the level for social assistance
Second indent of article 119(4) of ZTuj-2, which points at the Act on social assistance benefits rather than stating a figure.
- Permanent residence
- Five years of continuous lawful residence
Article 126(1) of ZTuj-2.
- Absences that do not break it
- Six months a year, or one absence of up to twelve months for a listed reason
Article 126(2) of ZTuj-2, which lists pregnancy, birth, serious illness, study, vocational training and a posting, plus military service.
- British citizens
- Chapter XIII.A of ZTuj-2, articles 141.a to 141.l
A separate scheme for people covered by the Withdrawal Agreement, including a certificate of frontier worker rights.
Requirements
- A valid identity card or passport, for entry
- Registration of residence at any administrative unit before ninety days are up, if you intend to stay longer
- One of the grounds in article 119(3), or means and health insurance under article 119(4)
- Five years of continuous lawful residence, for the right of permanent residence
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis
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
«Državljan EU za vstop v Republiko Slovenijo ne potrebuje dovoljenja za vstop, to je vizuma ali dovoljenja za prebivanje. (2) Državljan EU lahko vstopi v Republiko Slovenijo z veljavno osebno izkaznico ali veljavnim potnim listom.»No entry permission, and the two documents that serve.
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«Državljan EU, ki pride v Republiko Slovenijo z veljavno osebno izkaznico ali veljavnim potnim listom, lahko prebiva na območju Republike Slovenije brez prijave prebivanja 90 dni od dneva vstopa v državo. Če želi na območju Republike Slovenije prebivati dlje kot 90 dni, mora pred pretekom 90 dnevnega dovoljenega prebivanja pri katerikoli upravni enoti prijaviti prebivanje.»Ninety days free of formality, and a duty to register before they run out.
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Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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«Potrdilo o prijavi prebivanja se izda državljanu EU tudi v vseh drugih primerih, če ima: – veljavno osebno izkaznico ali veljavni potni list, – dovolj sredstev za preživljanje, ki mesečno ne smejo biti nižja od ravni, določene za pridobitev pravice do denarne socialne pomoči v skladu z zakonom, ki ureja socialno varstvene prejemke, – ustrezno zdravstveno zavarovanje, ki krije vsaj nujne zdravstvene storitve na območju Republike Slovenije.»The residual ground: means and insurance, for a citizen who is not working, studying or a family member.
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Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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«Državljan EU, ki v Republiki Sloveniji zakonito prebiva neprekinjeno pet let, ima pravico do stalnega prebivanja v Republiki Sloveniji. Če državljan EU oziroma njegov zakoniti zastopnik vloži prošnjo za izdajo potrdila o prijavi stalnega prebivanja, se mu ob izpolnjevanju pogoja petletnega neprekinjenega zakonitega prebivanja v Republiki Sloveniji in če ne obstajajo utemeljeni razlogi za sum, da bi lahko resno ogrožal javni red ali javno varnost, izda potrdilo o prijavi stalnega prebivanja brez omejitev glede trajanja in namena prebivanja v Republiki Sloveniji. V času odločanja o prošnji za izdajo potrdila o prijavi stalnega prebivanja mora državljan EU v Republiki Sloveniji prebivati zakonito. (2) Pogoj petletnega neprekinjenega zakonitega prebivanja iz prejšnjega odstavka je izpolnjen tudi, če je bil državljan EU v tem obdobju odsoten iz Republike Slovenije: – za največ šest mesecev na leto; – enkrat do največ dvanajst zaporednih mesecev iz pomembnih razlogov, kot so nosečnost, rojstvo otroka, resna bolezen, študij, poklicno usposabljanje, napotitev na delo v drugo državo; – zaradi služenja vojaškega roka.»Five years, and the absences that do not interrupt them.
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Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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«Določbe tega poglavja se uporabljajo za državljane Združenega kraljestva in njihove družinske člane, za katere se uporablja Sporazum o izstopu Združenega kraljestva Velika Britanija in Severna Irska iz Evropske unije in Evropske skupnosti za atomsko energijo (UL L št. 29 z dne 31. 1. 2020, str. 7) (v nadaljnjem besedilu: Sporazum o izstopu).»The scope of the British chapter, which exists because the Withdrawal Agreement required it.
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The official gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, where an instrument gains force. Every Act, amending Act, government decree, ministerial rulebook and Constitutional Court decision is published here, and so is the uradno prečiščeno besedilo - the official consolidated text, which the National Assembly confirms by resolution under article 153 of its own rules of procedure and which then appears as a numbered item of a numbered issue. Two address shapes serve the same material and both answer an ordinary request without JavaScript. /glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/{YYYY}-01-{NNNN} is the item, where the number is the SOP identifier the state legal information system also uses, so an identifier found there resolves straight to the gazette text; a human-readable slug may follow the identifier and is optional. /_pdf/{YYYY}/Ur/u{YYYY}{NNN}.pdf is the whole issue as a PDF. From 1 March 2026 the gazette is published through pisrs.si instead, and single items from the new arrangement are served at https://pisrs.si/api/uradni-list/objava/u{YYYY}{NNNN}.pdf as one-item PDFs with a text layer. Readings for this corpus were taken directly rather than through the extraction service, because the item pages are ordinary HTML and the service adds nothing.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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Practical notes
Read off chapter XIII and chapter XIII.A of ZTuj-2 as officially consolidated on 18 June 2025. We did not read Directive 2004/38/EC or the Withdrawal Agreement themselves.
Slovenia is said to have agreements with other former Yugoslav states on the employment of their nationals. We did not find one in the gazette and have not written one up: an agency describing such an agreement is not the agreement, and nothing here rests on one.
Article 125 and article 119 were amended by ZTuj-2I with effect from 21 November 2025, and the consolidated text prints the amended version.
- issuesZakon o tujcih (uradno prečiščeno besedilo) (ZTuj-2-UPB15)
Uradni list Republike Slovenije · consolidated to 2025-06-18
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Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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