Economic Migration Service

The Economic Migration Service mainly provides administrative and legal support for individuals wishing to stay in Belgium and for companies wishing to employ international staff as:

- salaried workers (single permit)

- highly qualified workers (EU Blue Card)

- self-employed workers (professional card)

- students, including intra-Community mobility,

- student jobseekers or young entrepreneurs,

- researchers,

- trainees.

If you need our help, please contact this service: businessmigration@myrightsduties.eu

Residence and family reunification department

The Department can help you with all your visa requirements:

- short-stay (C visa - Schengen)

- long-stay (D visa, including humanitarian visa categories)

- temporary residence permits,

- the exceptional residence permit (article 9 bis) introduced from Belgian territory or from abroad

- residence permits for medical reasons (article 9ter)

- EU long-term resident status,

- applications for settlement,

- change of residence status,

- free movement of Europeans and their family members,

- family reunification with non-EU nationals.

If you need our expertise and help, please contact us: 

legalservices@myrightsduties.eu

Integration and Belgian nationality department

The Nationality Department can help you with the following issues:

- problems relating to the granting of Belgian nationality to your minor children,

- refusals and objections issued by the Public Prosecutor's Office,

- acquiring Belgian nationality for people aged 18 and over in the following 5 categories:

foreign nationals who were born in Belgium and have been legally resident there since birth

Foreign nationals who have been legally resident in Belgium for 5 years and can prove their economic and social integration and knowledge of the language

Foreign nationals who have been legally resident in Belgium for 5 years and who are married to a Belgian national or are the parents of a minor Belgian child.

Foreign nationals who have been legally resident in Belgium for 5 years and who have reached pensionable age or who suffer from a handicap or disability that prevents them from working.

Foreign nationals who have been legally resident in Belgium for 10 years.

Service - Privacy and Data Protection

This department mainly helps individuals by advising them on the protection of their data and defending their interests in collective administrative or legal action.

It also advises legal entities on setting up, implementing and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR).

It offers data protection officer services to legal entities on an annual subscription basis or as a permanent representative for companies and businesses located outside the territory of the European Union or the European Economic Area.

Family law and private international law

We advise individuals on family law (legal cohabitation, marriage, divorce, family property law, international family law, international child abduction).<br>

Continue learning and social cohesion

Our services take part, in collaboration with other legal entities in the non-profit sector, in social debates aimed at encouraging and developing among an adult public:

an awareness and critical knowledge of the realities of society ;

the ability to analyse, make choices, take action and evaluate;

attitudes of responsibility and active participation in social, economic, cultural and political life.

The association also organises a number of activities at local level aimed at promoting living together, mutual respect, interculturality, etc.