Натурализация — стандартная семилетняя

Примеры сценариев

• Eligible to apply under GR-NAT-01; must pass the ΠΕΓΠ (unless exempt), document integration for ≥5 of 7 years, pay €550, and swear the Art 9 oath within 1 year of the decision's ΦΕΚ publication.

  Adult αλλογενής with >7 continuous years of lawful residence (Art 5(1)(δ), inserted by Art 2 L.3838/2010) and a qualifying definitive title — the EU long-term-resident permit (Art 5(1)(ε)). Substantive conditions of Art 5A apply (language, knowledge of Greece, integration) plus the ΠΕΓΠ under Art 7(2). Dual nationality permitted; no renunciation required.

• Subject to the STANDARD 7-year track under GR-NAT-01, NOT a 3-year reduced track. As he has 7 years' lawful residence, he is eligible now; the refugee card is a qualifying Art 5(1)(ε) definitive title.

  Art 94 L.4674/2020 (ΦΕΚ Α' 53/11-03-2020) REMOVED recognised refugees and subsidiary-protection beneficiaries from the 3-year reduced track to the standard 7-year track (V-CORR-10 / GR-EV-040). The grandfather clause preserving 3 years applies only to applications already pending at that law's entry into force, which does not cover a 2026 filing. Practitioner '3 years for refugees' claims are refuted.

• Theoretically on the 7-year NAT-01 track, but practically blocked: the zero-stay Golden Visa does not provide the 'permanent and legal' physical residence and integration the Art 5A test demands, and he cannot meet the ΠΕΓΠ language requirement without Greek.

  Greece has NO citizenship-by-investment; the Golden Visa is residence-only and the investor naturalises on the ordinary 7-continuous-year track (GR-EV-113). Art 5(1)(δ) requires «μόνιμη και νόμιμη διαμονή» (real physical residence) and Art 5A requires Greece as the continuous centre of life interests plus ΠΕΓΠ language ≈ B1 — neither met by a few weeks per year. CJEU C-181/23 confirms RBI does not become CBI.

• Eligible under the general 7-year basis (GR-MAR-02, same statutory engine as NAT-01); a low income cannot be an automatic (irrebuttable) bar, and the family relationship to a Greek counts as integration evidence.

  A childless foreign spouse naturalises on the general 7-year basis, not the 3-year reduced track (which requires a child of the marriage) (GR-EV-065). Per ΣτΕ Δ' Τμήμα 715/2026 & 717/2026 (summary 30-5-2026), minimum income is one rebuttable presumption (τεκμήριο), not an irrebuttable (αμάχητο) condition, and ΥΑ 29845/2021 is read down. Art 5A(1)(b) weights the family relationship to a Greek as integration evidence.

• NOT eligible under GR-NAT-01 with a temporary title; should either obtain an enumerated definitive title (e.g. EU long-term-resident permit) and then apply under NAT-01, or pursue the 12-year long-residence track GR-NAT-07.

  Art 5(1)(ε) requires one of the enumerated DEFINITIVE (non-temporary) residence titles; temporary titles are not accepted (GR-EV-043). The relief for holders of a valid non-temporary title that is not on the definitive list is the 12-year track under Art 5(3) (added by Art 31(3) L.4531/2018) (GR-EV-041). Conservative-default applies: the strict statutory title requirement governs.