Bring Your Family to Azerbaijan: Spouse and Children TRC

The Migration Code (Article 3.0.11) names four groups: your spouse, your children under 18, adult children who cannot work, and parents who depend on you. The Migration Service explains that parents qualify only in narrow cases: when disabled, women aged 63 or older, men aged 65 or older, unable to work, or under guardianship.

Other relatives, and adult children who can work, need their own ground, such as study or work. See the TRC grounds.

Never choose the purpose Tourism for a family member who plans to stay. Breaking the declared purpose is a refusal ground.

This is the route many students and workers use when the whole family flies in at once.

1. 1

   Apply for their e visa

   On evisa.gov.az, a separate family application with the purpose Personal trip. One family application covers 2 to 10 people, and a child in a parent's passport still needs own data. Or let Sroky's visa service file it.

2. 2

   Fly together

   Keep marriage and birth certificates in your hand luggage.

3. 3

   Register everyone within 15 days

   The rule covers every foreigner staying more than 15 days, children included. It is free.

4. 4

   File all TRCs the same day at ASAN

   The staff fill in a form for each family member, you sign the consent, and all applications go in together. One set of housing papers (rent contract or kupça and the owner's consent) covers the family.

1. 1

   Get your own TRC first

   The private visit visa is tied to an inviter who holds a TRC or studies here.

2. 2

   Write a notarised invitation

   With a copy of your passport and TRC, a promise to cover their costs (or proof of their funds), and proof of the family tie.

3. 3

   They get a visa

   From an e visa country: an e visa with the purpose Personal trip. Otherwise: a private visit visa (Article 30) at an Azerbaijani embassy, up to 90 days stay, USD 20 single entry. Visa free citizens: ask the Migration Service whether a visit visa is still needed.

4. 4

   Register within 15 days of arrival

   The host or landlord files it, or the person does.

5. 5

   File the family TRC

   Ground 45.1.5, before the stay runs out. On an e visa, file within the 30 days.

• Application form and passport (valid at least 3 months after the permit; see passport validity rules).
• Medical certificate (HIV, hepatitis B and C) and two photos 3.5 x 4.5 cm.
• Current visa or entry document, and the housing document with the owner's consent and ID copy.
• Spouse: marriage certificate copy and a copy of your passport.
• Child under 18: birth certificate copy and a copy of the parent's passport. A child without a passport uses a notarised birth certificate copy. The parent files for the child.
• Adult child unable to work: birth certificate, parent's passport and notarised proof of incapacity.
• Your consent as the sponsor, signed at ASAN (notarised only if you cannot come).
• Foreign marriage and birth certificates translated and notarised. CIS and Türkiye documents covered by treaties are accepted with the original. Ask the notary whether your original needs an apostille.
• If a name changed, the document of the change. If there is no birth certificate, a court decision or a paternity certificate.
• State fee receipt. Children under 15 give no fingerprints.

The family card cannot run longer than the sponsor's card, so you only pay up to your own expiry date. Shorter periods cost less: for an adult, AZN 30 or 40 for 3 months and AZN 60 or 80 for 6 months, depending on the processing time. The fee is paid when the card is collected, within 30 days after the decision, or the permit is cancelled.

These are family rates. Students pay a lower student rate only for their own card, not for their family. The government sets the fees and can change them, so check the amount on the ASAN or Migration Service page before you pay.

• Renew together: the office takes the sponsor's card end date into account, and every person must file at least 30 days before their card ends. Sroky tracks each family member's dates on one phone.
• A spouse on the family ground needs a separate work permit to work.
• A child at school can hold a family TRC or a study TRC (45.1.9 covers general schools too). See schools for expat children.
• A baby born in Azerbaijan: get the birth certificate, then a passport from your embassy, then apply for the baby's TRC as a family member. No fixed deadline was found, so apply early.
• Family who only want to visit can come on an e visa, visa free, or on a private visit visa of up to 90 days.