Slovenia — Long-term Visa Application (D-Visa)

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-16

This is a GovSchema Standard Research cycle (GOV-3249). Slovenia already exists in the registry (opened as the 53rd jurisdiction via Business Formation, GOV-2910, and expanded through Passport/GOV-2927, National ID/GOV-2928, and Taxes/GOV-2929); this document opens Slovenia's Visa vertical (2 of 6).

Review-gate corrections (GOV-3252)

Beyond the meta-schema and fabricated-hash fixes already documented below (applied pre-merge, in the same cycle, after the authoring run crashed), the review gate's own independent re-extraction of the source PDF found two further fidelity gaps and fixed both in place:

• maritalStatus enum. The source form's field 9 has six checkboxes, not the five modelled: samski/single, poročen/married, živi ločeno/separated, razvezan/divorced, a single combined vdovec/vdova (widow(er)) checkbox, and drugo (navedite) (other, please specify). The prior enum (["samski","poročen","živi ločeno","razvezan","vdovec","vdova"]) split vdovec/vdova into two separate values and omitted "drugo" entirely. Fixed to ["samski","poročen","živi ločeno","razvezan","vdovec/vdova","drugo"] and added a companion maritalStatusOtherDescription field (requiredWhen maritalStatus equals drugo), mirroring the purposeOtherDescription pattern in gr/mfa/application-for-schengen-visa.
• Missing field 18 subfields. Independent pdfjs-dist re-extraction of page 2 showed field 18 (family member, in case of family reunification) has four components on the source form, not one: surname/first name (already modelled as familyMemberName), a family-relationship checkbox group (zakonec/spouse, otrok/child, vnuk/vnukinja/grandchild, vzdrževani prednik/dependent ascendant, ostalo/other — entirely unmodelled), an address-and-email line, and a telephone-and-telefax line (also unmodelled). Added familyRelationship (enum), familyMemberAddress, familyMemberEmailAddress, and familyMemberPhoneAndFax.

Net effect: 40 fields[] entries (22 required, 18 optional), up from 35 (22 required, 13 optional). Both validators still pass 494/494 after these additions, and the two valid conformance fixtures were extended with the new family-member fields where applicable (valid-family-reunification.json); the invalid fixture's premise (omitting the required purposeOfVisa) is unaffected by either fix.

Why this candidate

The Ministrstvo za zunanje in evropske zadeve (MZEZ, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs) publishes a genuine, fillable long-term (D-category) visa application for nationals of third countries seeking stays of longer than 90 days under Article 20 of the Aliens Act (ZTuj-2). This is distinct from the short-term (C-category) Schengen visa template, which Slovenia adopts under EU Schengen Annex I. The long-term visa is the only national-level visa form available for this purpose and is a required entry point for extended residence in Slovenia (e.g., family reunification, employment, education, humanitarian grounds).

Anti-duplication verification

Distinct from EU Schengen Annex I short-stay template:

The EU-harmonized Schengen visa (short-stay, C-category) form template is defined in Annex I of the Schengen Visa Code (Regulation (EU) 2015/1998). All EU member states, including Slovenia, adopt this identical template for short-term (up to 90 days) visa applications. This registry publishes that form as fr/france-visas/schengen-visa-application (the French consular version of the EU-wide template, used as the structural reference).

This form (long-term D-visa) is distinct because:

1. Purpose-of-visa checkboxes: The long-term form includes 10 Slovenia-specific checkboxes for purposes unique to long-term residence (Article 20 categories): The Schengen Annex I short-stay form uses generic C-visa purposes (tourism, business, medical treatment) that do not align with these national long-term categories.
   • a. Family reunification (а. združitev družine)
   • b. Work at diplomatic representation (б. nastop službe na DKP)
   • c. Education/training (в. izobraževanje, izpopolnjevanje)
   • d. Economic interest (г. gospodarski interes RS)
   • e. High education/science (е. interes RS na področju visokog šolstva in znanosti)
   • f. Sports contract (ѓ. šport-pogodba s pravno osebo v RS)
   • g. Journalist accreditation (з. akreditacija poročevalca oz. novinarja)
   • h. Religious/charity work (и. opravljanje duhovniškog ali karitativnog dela)
   • i. Humanitarian reasons (ј. humanitarni i resni poklicni ili osebni razlogi)
   • j. Student employment under international agreement (к. študentsko delo – na podlagi mednarodnega sporazuma)
2. Required fields: The long-term form requires: The Schengen short-stay form does not require these fields in the same way.
   • Intended arrival and departure dates
   • Current occupation and employer information
   • Family member name (if family reunification is selected)
   • Company/organisation contact details for relevant purposes
   • A description of the reasons for the visa request
3. Scope and duration: The long-term D-visa is issued for stays of longer than 90 days (typically up to one year), whereas the short-term C-visa is for up to 90 days within 180 days. The form instructions and validity periods reflect this distinction.
4. Bilingual content: This form is published in both Slovenian and English on gov.si's consular-affairs (konzularne zadeve) page as a standalone form for third-country nationals applying for long-term residence.

Conclusion: This form is a wholly distinct document from the EU Schengen Annex I short-stay template and represents Slovenia's unique long-term visa pathway. No registry duplication risk exists.

Source re-verification (Phase 1)

• Authority: MZEZ (Ministrstvo za zunanje in evropske zadeve), a national ministry (consular affairs division).
• URL: https://www.gov.si/assets/ministrstva/MZEZ/Dokumenti/konzularne-zadeve/oddelek-za-vize/vloga_za_dolgorocni_vizum_SI-EN.pdf
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-16, independently re-fetched this cycle with curl -sL, not trusted from the issue's own citation as-is.
• HTTP status: 200. Content-Type: application/pdf. Size: 185,843 bytes. sha256: d8ac15a7429f77fd7a564435c1dff7daff36dcd28c54887975505a5cd1387d93 — re-derived from scratch during this PR's own re-verification pass (the hash string in the crashed run's original draft was a malformed 62-character placeholder, not real sha256sum output; every other claim in this section — HTTP status, content-type, byte size, page count, bilingual content — was independently re-confirmed against a fresh download and is accurate).
• File type: a genuine PDF with embedded text content (%PDF header).
• Extraction method: pdfjs-dist@3.11.174 (legacy/build/pdf.js), run from scratch this cycle in a clean scratch directory against the freshly re-fetched PDF: text extraction via page.getTextContent() for each of the 3 pages. Confirmed 3 pages and a structured bilingual (Slovenian/English) form with 21 numbered form fields (plus office-only decision section excluded per registry convention).

Field inventory (Phase 2)

All 40 fields[] entries in the schema (covering applicant identification, travel document, residence, employment, intended stay dates, visa purpose, and signature) are accounted for and sourced from the form text:

| Form field (numbered) | Modelled as | Notes | |---|---|---| | 1. Priimek / Surname | surname | Required | | 2. Priimek ob rojstvu / Surname at birth | surnameAtBirth | Optional | | 3. Ime / First name(s) | givenName | Required | | 4. Datum rojstva / Date of birth | dateOfBirth | Required | | 5. Kraj rojstva / Place of birth | placeOfBirth | Required | | 6. Država rojstva / Country of birth | countryOfBirth | Required | | 7. Sedanje državljanstvo / Current nationality | currentNationality | Required | | 7. Državljanstvo ob rojstvu / Nationality at birth | nationalityAtBirth | Optional | | 8. Spol / Sex | sex | Required enum: moški/ženski | | 9. Zakonski stan / Marital status | maritalStatus | Required enum: samski/poročen/živi ločeno/razvezan/vdovec-vdova/drugo | | 9. Zakonski stan: drugo (navedite) | maritalStatusOtherDescription | Optional, requiredWhen maritalStatus=drugo | | 10. Guardian data (minors) | guardianInformation | Optional opaque object (surname/givenName/address/nationality carried in description, not as a nested schema — GovSchema v0.3's field definition has no properties keyword) | | 11. Vrsta potne listine / Travel document type | travelDocumentType | Required | | 11. Številka potne listine / Number | travelDocumentNumber | Required | | 11. Organ, ki jo je izdal / Issued by | travelDocumentIssuingAuthority | Required | | 11. Datum izdaje / Date of issue | travelDocumentDateOfIssue | Required date | | 11. Veljavna do / Valid until | travelDocumentValidUntil | Required date | | 12. Bivališče v drugem kraju / Other residence | residenceInOtherCountry | Required boolean | | 12. Dovoljenje za prebivanje / Residence permit | residencePermitNumber | Optional (conditional) | | 12. Velja do / Valid until | residencePermitValidUntil | Optional date (conditional) | | 13. Domači naslov / Home address | homeAddress | Required | | 13. E-pošta / Email | emailAddress | Required | | 13. Telefonska(-e) številka(-e) / Telephone | telephoneNumbers | Required | | 14. Sedanji poklic / Current occupation | currentOccupation | Optional | | 15. Delodajalec / Employer | employerNameAndAddress | Optional | | 15. Telefonska številka / Employer phone | employerPhoneNumber | Optional | | 17. Predvideni datum prihoda / Arrival date | intentedDateOfArrival | Required date | | 17. Predvideni datum odhoda / Departure date | intentedDateOfDeparture | Required date | | 16. Razlog za vizum / Visa purpose | purposeOfVisa | Required enum (single-select among the form's 10 lettered purpose checkboxes a-j) | | 16. Opis razlogov / Purpose description | purposeDescription | Optional | | 18. Družinski član / Family member | familyMemberName | Optional (for family reunification) | | 18. Sorodstveno razmerje / Family relationship | familyRelationship | Optional enum, family reunification only | | 18. Naslov in e-pošta / Address & e-mail (address) | familyMemberAddress | Optional, family reunification only | | 18. Naslov in e-pošta / Address & e-mail (e-mail) | familyMemberEmailAddress | Optional, family reunification only | | 18. Telefon in faks / Telephone and telefax | familyMemberPhoneAndFax | Optional, family reunification only | | 19. Naziv podjetja/organizacije / Company | companyOrganisationName | Optional | | 19. Telefon in faks / Company phone/fax | companyPhoneAndFax | Optional | | 19. Kontaktna oseba / Contact person | contactPersonDetails | Optional opaque object (surname/givenName/address/phone/fax/email carried in description) | | 20. Kraj in datum / Place and date | placeAndDateOfApplication | Required | | 21. Podpis / Signature | applicantSignature | Required |

Judgment calls

1. Purpose-of-visa modelling as a required single-select enum, not an object with 10 boolean properties. The form displays 10 checkboxes (labeled a–j) for purposes under Article 20 of the Aliens Act, and its own instructions ("Exactly one of the 10 purpose categories must be selected") describe a single-select choice, not 10 independent flags. An earlier draft of this schema (produced by a run that crashed before completing validation) had modelled purposeOfVisa as type: "object" with 10 boolean properties — this fails GovSchema v0.3's meta-schema, since the field definition has no properties keyword at all (object-type fields are carried opaquely; see ca/on/registration/business-incorporation's incorporatorAddress for the established precedent). Caught during independent re-validation (node tools/validate-ajv.mjs) before this PR was opened, and re-modelled as type: "enum" with the 10 lettered categories as validation.enum values — a more accurate reading of the source's own "exactly one" instruction than the crashed draft's object shape, not merely a mechanical fix. The same pass also corrected dateOfBirth and four other date fields (previously type: "string" + a disallowed format: "date" combination — GovSchema has no format keyword either; the correct spelling is type: "date"), sex/maritalStatus (previously type: "string" + a disallowed top-level enum array — moved into type: "enum" + validation.enum), and emailAddress (previously format: "email", replaced with a validation.pattern regex, per this registry's established format-is-unsupported convention).
2. Conditional fields modelled as optional. Fields like residencePermitNumber, residencePermitValidUntil, familyMemberName, and company/contact details are conditional on other selections (e.g., visa purpose, residence in another country). Per the registry's established convention (see bg/mvr/zayavlenie-za-izdavane-na-pasport), these are marked required: false without added requiredWhen conditions, to avoid over-constraining the schema and to defer conditional validation to implementation-layer validation rules.
3. Office-only decision section excluded. The form includes a decision section (at the top, filled by MZEZ staff during processing) with: Per the registry's convention of excluding office-only sections (see the Passport form's treatment of DKP registration fields), these fields are not included in the schema. The schema models only applicant-submitted and applicant-provided fields.
   • Vrsta odločitve (decision type: approval/rejection/issuance)
   • Validity period (from/to dates)
   • Allowed days of stay
   • Signature of responsible official
4. Bilingual form unified in schema. The form is published in both Slovenian and English (SI-EN version). The schema's label fields use Slovenian text (the primary form language), and the sourceRef fields cite both Slovenian and English labels for clarity.

Fixture design rationale

Three conformance fixtures are included:

1. valid-family-reunification.json: A complete valid application for family reunification (purpose a). Includes all required fields plus the full set of family-member fields added in the review gate (name, relationship, address, e-mail, phone/fax), and represents a common use case.
2. valid-student-employment.json: A complete valid application for student employment under international agreement (purpose j). No family member or company contact fields (not applicable). Demonstrates an alternative purpose selection.
3. invalid-missing-required-purpose.json: An invalid fixture that omits the required purposeOfVisa field entirely (no purpose selected). Raises exactly one error (required on purposeOfVisa), independently confirmed via an ad hoc ajv check built from this schema's own fields[] (required/type/validation.enum/validation.pattern) — see "Verification summary" below.

Verification summary

• Source authenticity: Government of Slovenia official consular-affairs form, published on gov.si.
• Field extraction: All 21 numbered applicant-submission fields extracted and modelled faithfully, including the field 9 (marital status) and field 18 (family member) gaps found and fixed during the review gate.
• Anti-duplication: Confirmed distinct from EU Schengen Annex I short-stay form via 10 unique Slovenia-specific purpose categories.
• Bilingual: Correctly documented as bilingual (SI/EN).
• Office-only sections: Decision section appropriately excluded.
• Maturity: Structural-reference (draft status) — schema captures the form's published structure without execution testing or agent-ready validation.
• Meta-schema conformance: node tools/validate.mjs and node tools/validate-ajv.mjs both pass 494/494 documents (this schema included) after the field-shape corrections above. All 3 conformance fixtures independently re-checked against an ad hoc ajv schema built from this document's own fields[]: both valid fixtures raise 0 errors, the mutation-control fixture raises exactly 1 (required on purposeOfVisa).

Commit metadata

• Issue: GOV-3249 (Slovenia Visa vertical authoring), review gate GOV-3252
• Branch: gov-3249-si-visa-pr
• Cycle: GovSchema Standard Research (weekly)
• Related issues: GOV-3246 (Slovenia research plan, GOV-3248/GOV-3249 delegation), GOV-2910 (Business Formation, Slovenia 1st jurisdiction), GOV-2927 (Passport, Slovenia 2/6), GOV-2928 (National ID, Slovenia 3/6), GOV-2929 (Taxes, Slovenia 4/6).

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Next steps: none — both validators pass, all 3 conformance fixtures are consistent with the corrected schema, and CATALOG.md / registry-index.json are verified below. Ready for merge.