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Single permit processing 2025

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sarasaroub98

Hi all,

I created this post for people that are waiting for their single permit and future applicants, please share your timeline here :


Application date : 11/11/2024

Region: Flanders

WP: 02/12/2024

RP: waiting

Sara mina

Application date : 12/12/2024


Region: Flanders


WP: waiting

RP: waiting

Unknown fan

@sarasaroub98

Region Flanders

Application date  13/11

Admissible 2/12

WP 2/12

Annex 46 waiting

ruslan.galkanov

Region Brussels

Application date (renewal): 6 Nov 2024

Admissible: no news

WP/PR: still waiting


A question to all: did anyone experience such a long review of documents for a SP renewal?  In 2023, it was my first application for a SP and with all additional requests, altogether it took 2 (two) months: October 18, 2023 - December 21, 2023! 


This year, it is already the first week of January, and my employer has not even heard about the admissibility - and this is still on the Region level!  I've heard the renewal is now treated identically to the first application.   

ievgenfeldmann

@ruslan.galkanov

Yes this year it is mess in Brussels.. in my case I got L card faster then renewal, at the moment my L card was approved my SP renewal even did not start to process the application and both I applied same time...

ruslan.galkanov

@ievgenfeldmann

Wow, interesting... I was also told about the mess in BRU which apparently had started in September 2024.

ievgenfeldmann

@ruslan.galkanov

Po Pizde vse poshlo 🤣

Mai Rose

@ievgenfeldmann

HI

congrats!

When did you apply for the L card, when was it approved 

How did they inform you?

Did you check Mon Dossier?

Because I am waiting for the approvment

Thank you

ievgenfeldmann

@Mai Rose

Commune will send u an email , but u should keep asking them as they tend to delay. U will not see in Mon Dossier only after u activate  the card. Applied October 1 received December 8

ruslan.galkanov

@ievgenfeldmann

😀

glassofsoda

Region Flanders


Application date  10/10


Admissible: 8/11


WP: 8/11


RP: waiting


Question, in my A card it states that the expiry date is 8/Feb/2025. At this moment I'm still waiting for the residence permit (annex 46). My question is, what happens if it reaches 8/Feb/2025 and there's still no decision for my residence permit?


Also, once I get my residence permit, then it's straightforward that I just go to my town hall to collect my new residence card?

ievgenfeldmann

@glassofsoda

U have to stop working or get annex

julia.shew

Brussels Region. First time application as a "metier en penurie", but already living in Belgium as a student and then on the orientation year visa.


Application date: 04/10

Dossier considered complete: 23/10

WP: 24/10

RP: still waiting


I called IBZ today to check on the status of my application and they just said that my file is still being processed and it could take up to 4 months. They said it could be quicker than the 4 months but they wouldn't give me an estimate... Anybody here received their RP already from WPs approved in October?

Unknown fan

@julia.shew

Wow it takes so long!! Do they take into account the starting date of the job ? I need to start in February and my WP was approved in December

ruslan.galkanov

@Yasaman Hedayat

I did not know one could follow anything online.  Supposedly, it is only your employer who can do that.   

julia.shew

@Unknown fan

I don't think so... The work contract that my employer submitted gave a start date of November 1, 2024.

julia.shew

My Annex 46 just came through!! Now going to the commune on 5 February to pick up the Annex 49 and order my new card (if I understand the process correctly).


Sum of process:

Brussels Region. First time application as a "metier en penurie", but already living in Belgium as a student and then on the orientation year visa.


Application date: 04/10

Dossier considered complete: 23/10

WP: 24/10

RP: 13/01

Unknown fan

@julia.shew

Congratulations 🎉

glassofsoda

Region Flanders


Single permit/Annex 46 approved!


Application date  10/10/24

Admissible: 8/11/24

WP: 8/11/24

RP: 15/01/25

Unknown fan

@glassofsoda

congratulations! thanks for sharing

a19

Has anyone applied for the single permit application for the first time as a "postdoc"? My university submitted the single permit application for me in the first week of November 2024, and my job start was in the first week of December, however I am still waiting for the permit. Is there any time estimation for receiving the permit for such a scientific job?

friendlyprosciutto

Hey!


Does anyone have any recent timelines on a first time application for Brussels?


Cheers!

Yaniyani

Hey guys.


Application date : 26/08/2024


Region: Flanders


SP: 04/12/2024


RP: waiting

ievgenfeldmann

@a19

for post doc in Wallonia no more SP...only BRX and FL

a19

@ievgenfeldmann

my case is for BRX

ievgenfeldmann

@a19

Once you receive WP you can always call immigration office to ask on your status...I did several times they are quite responsive! 

a19

@ievgenfeldmann

thanks, I tried to reach them few times via email, but they are not answering, I will try to call them. I was guessing that it will not take more than 2 months to get single permit for the case of the postdoc, but it passed, hope to not be very late..

shadow98

Application date: 13/01/2025

Region: Brussels

WP: waiting

RP: waiting

businessqueries273

Hello,

If you send all the documents to your employer for single permit 3 weeks before but you get automated reply about "single permit privacy notice" now. Does it mean employer has submitted your application now only and not earlier or is there any other meaning to it? Has it happened to anyone before? What does this privacy notice mean?

mjarmak

Anyone applying for a professional card renewal?

Unknown fan

@businessqueries273

It means your employer submitted today

businessqueries273

@Unknown fan

ok, thanks.

Mohanned Ahmed

I emailed my recruiter yesterday to inquiry about my single permit application status and she told me that it is currently being processed by the foreigner's office, for the sake of the single permit application what does that mean? given that I have received the privacy notice email on 16/12. Region: Wallonie

uygarts9

@Mohanned Ahmed

it means you received the first approval given by regional employment ministry. and the file is now with IBZ / Immigration office for Residence permit check.

Mohanned Ahmed

@uygarts9

How long will it approximately take for the resident permit to be granted?

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