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carokian wrote:my EU residency card expires in 5 years time, it also has to be reapplied foe once I have my new passport.
No.
You will get your new passport, and the residency visa in the old passport will remain in that passport.
You will, however, need to keep your old passport as proof that you have said residency visa.
Do not lose your old passport .. if you do, THEN you WILL have to get a duplicate visa issued and applied in your new passport.
Not Fun.
This would be an excellent time for you to make a full copy of your entire passport, every page, and put it in a safe place.
I keep an 800 dpi scan of every page of my passport electronically. Every time it is altered, I re-scan the altered pages. I keep multiple electronic copies (two CD's with burned data, in addition to the hard drives of two different computers) and I keep two printed copied in different locations.
You do not have to reapply for your residency visa .. but you may have to apply for a duplicate should the original be lost ... a process so painful that it is best if you take all precautions to ensure it does not happen.
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