Registered civil-partnership equivalence (post-2017 ZDRS-E)

SI-MAR-002 Registered civil-partnership equivalence (post-2017 ZDRS-E). STANDARD route. Sub-route extending SI-MAR-001 marriage pathway to registered civil partners under Zakon o partnerski zvezi (Civil Partnership Act). ZDRS-E 2017 amendment + 2017 Civil Partnership Act enables registered civil-partnership equivalence at Article 12(2) ZDRS. Same cumulative conditions as SI-MAR-001: 3 years registered partnership + 1 year continuous SI residence + Article 10(1) cross-referenced conditions.

Cohort A (pre-2023 partnerska zveza, W6.1): operative status is registered partnerska zveza entered before 2023-01-30 under ZPZ Articles 1–10. Evidentiary basis: izpis iz matičnega registra (extract from matriarial register) recording the partnerska zveza, with the date of registration. Where the partnerska zveza was contracted before a Slovenian matriarial officer, the izpis is directly issued by the upravna enota; where the partnership equivalence is being claimed in respect of a foreign-registered same-sex marriage or partnership, the foreign certificate must be apostilled / legalised per and registered with the Slovenian matriarial register before the MNZ application.

Cohort B (post-2023 marriage, W6.2): operative status is zakonska zveza (marriage) contracted under amended DZ Article 3, whether contracted in Slovenia after 2023-01-31 or contracted abroad and registered in the Slovenian matriarial register. Evidentiary basis: izpis iz matičnega registra recording the marriage; or apostilled foreign certificate.

Transitional conversion (Cohort A → Cohort B): Same-sex couples in partnerska zveza pre-2023-01-31 retained the option to convert to marriage under DZ-B transitional provisions. The conversion is a single matriarial procedure under operative MNZ-MJU guidance. Where conversion occurs mid-application, MNZ practice is expected to permit aggregation of partnership duration + marriage duration to satisfy the 3-year requirement; the operative framework is the analogical extension of Article 12(2)'s family-integration rationale through the DZ-B amended definition of zakonska zveza.

§3.2 The 3-year duration requirement under Article 12(2)

The 3-year…

Vesting trigger: OATH DATE. Per Pravilnik o postopku in načinu slovesnega dejanja podaje prisege (Ur.l. RS 34/2007) Articles 3-4. Same trigger as SI-MAR-001; not the SI-NAT-002 extraordinary decision-service-date trigger. Pre-oath, the favourable MNZ decision is non-effective for citizenship status; the applicant remains an alien retaining pre-existing citizenship and continues to require regulated alien status under ZTuj-2. Where the prior-citizenship release procedure is in motion, timing coordination is required per SI-MAR-001 §6. Dual-citizenship default under Article 2 ZDRS (dual citizenship recognised on SI territory; release default required under Article 10(1)(2) imported into Article 12(2) but bridgeable via Article 14 assurance).

Article 12(2) of the Zakon o državljanstvu Republike Slovenije (ZDRS-UPB2, Uradni list RS 24/2007, SOP 2007-01-1211; čistopis 2017-07-22 per ZDRS-E Ur.l. RS 40/2017) — pinned at — authorises the Government of the Republic of Slovenia (via the Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve, MNZ) to accept into Slovenian citizenship a spouse of a Slovenian citizen (zakonec slovenskega državljana) where the applicant satisfies: (i) 3 years of marriage to a Slovenian citizen; (ii) 1 year of continuous actual living in Slovenia in regulated alien status; and (iii) the substantive Article 10(1) conditions imported by cross-reference (see SI-MAR-001 §2.3 for the imported-conditions framework, pinned at ).

Article 12(2)'s operative term is "zakonec" — spouse. The substantive citizenship question for SI-MAR-002 is: when the family-law definition of zakonec and the family-status framework of zakonska zveza (marriage) and partnerska zveza (registered partnership) evolves under the adjacent family-law statutes, how does Article 12(2)'s spousal subroute extend? The ZDRS statute itself does not enumerate the term zakonec; the operative content of "zakonec" follows the definitional source in the family-law framework — first the Zakon o zakonski zvezi in družinskih razmerjih (ZZZDR) (replaced 2017-04-15 by the Družinski zakonik), then the Družinski zakonik (DZ) — and the partnership framework under the Zakon o partnerski zvezi (ZPZ).

§2.2 Slovenia marriage-equality timeline — 2015 referendum to 2023 statutory parity

The Slovenian marriage-equality legal evolution proceeded through four critical milestones in the W6 window:

1. **2015 ZZZDR-D referendum repeal of pre-emptive…

• — ZDRS Article 12 paragraphs 2-7 (spouse / former-citizen / minor / stateless / refugee / born-in-SI subroutes). Primary statutory anchor for the zakonec spousal subroute at paragraph 2 reached by SI-MAR-002. (Pisrs.si publication: ZDRS-UPB2 Uradni list RS 24/2007, SOP 2007-01-1211; čistopis 2017-07-22 per ZDRS-E Ur.l. RS 40/2017.)

§7.3 Imported statutory framework (cross-pinned from SI-MAR-001)

• — ZDRS Article 10 — operative cross-reference for the imported substantive conditions (release from prior citizenship; language; livelihood; criminal record; public order; fiscal; oath) into…