{"schemaVersion":1,"passportCode":"RO","passportUrl":"https://multipassrank.com/passport/romania","scope":"Selected country-topic summaries; not a complete account of citizenship law or personal tax liability. These facts do not change mobility scores.","review":{"decision":"approved","reviewer":"/root/top20_italy_spain","reviewedAt":"2026-09-17","recheckBy":"2026-12-16","candidateSha256":"8e5cd81e0b1714d370da38a03756384ed9736e5b967ec452de93b09f95ac0fd0","notes":"Independent review of all 17 retained official authorities and all six topics. Removed one redundant Romanian consolidated-Act source after repeated web, Node and curl access failures; no preview or author-only read was treated as independent verification. The accessible updated Law 14/2025 fully supports the affected clauses through Article I points 1, 3, 8, 22-23 and Article XIV, so only source references and locators changed. Checked Croatia's eight continuous registered years plus permanent status, release exceptions, limited foreign-education B1 proof, over-60 exemption and 15-question civic test against the current FAQ and operative amendments/regulation. Checked Croatian home possession versus habitual presence, state-service scope, treaty qualification and TI/TU directions. Checked Romania's 2025 ordinary settled-status/residence requirements, absences, qualified reductions, interview and protective-measure exceptions, separate restoration/descent B1 rule, oath exceptions and pending-case transition; future electronic-filing provisions are not treated as current eligibility changes. Read ANAF's actual computer consolidation through OUG 38/2026 by public HTTP and its actual 2025 guide, verifying worldwide/source scope, first-day triggers, foreign-employment exclusion, non-treaty departure tail, questionnaires and capped treaty credit. Checked Bulgaria's citizenship Act through June 2026, five years since permanent OR long-term permission, conduct/livelihood/release conditions and presidential decree; the September 2026 exam notice corroborates the linked 2015 regulation without establishing a CEFR equivalence. Downloaded and read the NRA tax statute's DOCX body despite its .rtf URL, preserving its March 2026 edition caveat and corroborating Articles 4-8 with both live NRA pages. No passport-only tax conclusion, blanket exemption, approval guarantee or proposed-rule inference was accepted. Candidate schema and exact hash are checked separately before handoff; no application artifact, deployment or unrelated review was changed."},"reviewScope":"A common review is provided only when all topics share one approval. Otherwise consult each topic's review; no collection means no review.","reviews":[{"decision":"approved","reviewer":"/root/top20_italy_spain","reviewedAt":"2026-09-17","recheckBy":"2026-12-16","candidateSha256":"8e5cd81e0b1714d370da38a03756384ed9736e5b967ec452de93b09f95ac0fd0","notes":"Independent review of all 17 retained official authorities and all six topics. Removed one redundant Romanian consolidated-Act source after repeated web, Node and curl access failures; no preview or author-only read was treated as independent verification. The accessible updated Law 14/2025 fully supports the affected clauses through Article I points 1, 3, 8, 22-23 and Article XIV, so only source references and locators changed. Checked Croatia's eight continuous registered years plus permanent status, release exceptions, limited foreign-education B1 proof, over-60 exemption and 15-question civic test against the current FAQ and operative amendments/regulation. Checked Croatian home possession versus habitual presence, state-service scope, treaty qualification and TI/TU directions. Checked Romania's 2025 ordinary settled-status/residence requirements, absences, qualified reductions, interview and protective-measure exceptions, separate restoration/descent B1 rule, oath exceptions and pending-case transition; future electronic-filing provisions are not treated as current eligibility changes. Read ANAF's actual computer consolidation through OUG 38/2026 by public HTTP and its actual 2025 guide, verifying worldwide/source scope, first-day triggers, foreign-employment exclusion, non-treaty departure tail, questionnaires and capped treaty credit. Checked Bulgaria's citizenship Act through June 2026, five years since permanent OR long-term permission, conduct/livelihood/release conditions and presidential decree; the September 2026 exam notice corroborates the linked 2015 regulation without establishing a CEFR equivalence. Downloaded and read the NRA tax statute's DOCX body despite its .rtf URL, preserving its March 2026 edition caveat and corroborating Articles 4-8 with both live NRA pages. No passport-only tax conclusion, blanket exemption, approval guarantee or proposed-rule inference was accepted. Candidate schema and exact hash are checked separately before handoff; no application artifact, deployment or unrelated review was changed."}],"coverage":{"citizenship":"reviewed_scope","taxes":"reviewed_scope"},"topics":[{"code":"RO","topic":"citizenship","title":"Romania Citizenship Requirements","summary":"Romania's ordinary naturalisation rules require qualifying residence and a settled residence right, means and good conduct, plus an interview assessing Romanian language and civic knowledge.","scope":"Selected adult Article 8 ordinary naturalisation rules as amended from 15 March 2025. Earlier pending applications retain the substantive eligibility rules applicable when filed; restoration and descent under Articles 10-11 are separate.","jurisdiction":"Romania: Romanian citizenship","routeType":"naturalisation","facts":[{"id":"residence","label":"Eight years plus a settled residence right","text":"An applicant aged at least 18 must hold long-term or permanent residence rights when applying and have at least eight years of lawful residence. The married route instead requires at least five years of lawful residence since marriage while married to and living with a Romanian citizen, still with the required residence rights.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["top20-ro-citizenship-amendment"],"locator":"Law 14/2025 Article I point 3 replacing Act Article 8(1)(a), (c); Article XIV transitional rule","constraint":{"value":8,"unit":"years","basis":"legal_residence","cohort":"Ordinary Article 8 application under the post-15-March-2025 rule, also requiring long-term or permanent residence rights at filing; married and reduced-period cohorts are separate"},"effectiveFrom":"2025-03-15"},{"id":"residence-adjustments","label":"Absences and reductions are qualified","text":"An absence exceeding six months in a year excludes that year. The eight-year period can be reduced by up to three years for qualifying EU/EEA/Swiss or Romania-born applicants only with the statutory participation or contribution conditions; recognised refugees need the separate exceptional-integration assessment. These are not automatic nationality discounts.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["top20-ro-citizenship-amendment"],"locator":"Law 14/2025 Article I point 3: replacement Article 8(2)-(4), including qualifying birth and integration conditions"},{"id":"conduct-means","label":"Means, loyalty and good conduct","text":"Applicants must show lawful means for a decent living, loyalty to the Romanian state and constitutional values, and good conduct. Conduct or convictions incompatible with citizenship, undermining the legal order or national-security concerns can prevent admission.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["top20-ro-citizenship-amendment"],"locator":"Law 14/2025 Article I point 3 replacing Act Article 8(1)(b), (d)-(e)"},{"id":"language-civics","label":"Romanian language and civic interview","text":"The ordinary interview assesses reading, writing and oral Romanian alongside history, geography, culture, the Constitution and anthem. A mean mark of at least 5 out of 10 is required. The procedure provides disability adaptations; applicants under the specified court protective measures are exempt from the interview.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["top20-ro-interview"],"locator":"Procedure sections 2, 3.1.3-3.1.4, 3.3.2 and 3.4.1-3.4.9"},{"id":"cefr-unresolved","label":"Ordinary-route CEFR level not established","text":"The reviewed Article 8 interview rules do not establish a general CEFR level. The B1 certificate provisions for Article 10 or 11 restoration and descendant applications must not be presented as the universal ordinary-naturalisation requirement.","state":"not_established","sourceIds":["top20-ro-citizenship-amendment","top20-ro-interview"],"locator":"Law 14/2025 Article I points 3 and 16: Act Article 8(1)(f)-(g) versus Article 15^1(4); interview procedure without CEFR mapping"},{"id":"nationality-decision","label":"No Article 8 renunciation condition; oath matters","text":"Article 8 does not list surrendering another citizenship as an admission condition. Another country's law may nevertheless remove that nationality. Meeting the Romanian conditions does not create an automatic entitlement; citizenship is normally acquired on taking the allegiance oath after approval.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["top20-ro-citizenship-amendment"],"locator":"Law 14/2025 Article I points 1, 3, 8, 22-23 replacing Act Articles 4(2), 8, 12 and 20(1), subject to the exceptional Article 21 arrangements"}],"limits":["For the Romania-born reduced-period cohort, at least one parent must have been lawfully resident when the applicant was born. Reduction also requires the specified active economic participation, relevant educational achievement or exceptional contribution; it is not available merely because a person was born in Romania.","The 2025 substantive rules are not retroactively imposed on every pending application. Law 14/2025 Article XIV preserves the filing-date eligibility rules for earlier pending cases; procedural provisions have their own transition rules.","No processing-time promise, universal B1 rule or restoration-by-descent entitlement is inferred. Future electronic-filing provisions and the 2026 certificate-deadline changes for Articles 10-11 are not ordinary-route eligibility changes."],"review":{"decision":"approved","reviewer":"/root/top20_italy_spain","reviewedAt":"2026-09-17","recheckBy":"2026-12-16","candidateSha256":"8e5cd81e0b1714d370da38a03756384ed9736e5b967ec452de93b09f95ac0fd0","notes":"Independent review of all 17 retained official authorities and all six topics. Removed one redundant Romanian consolidated-Act source after repeated web, Node and curl access failures; no preview or author-only read was treated as independent verification. The accessible updated Law 14/2025 fully supports the affected clauses through Article I points 1, 3, 8, 22-23 and Article XIV, so only source references and locators changed. Checked Croatia's eight continuous registered years plus permanent status, release exceptions, limited foreign-education B1 proof, over-60 exemption and 15-question civic test against the current FAQ and operative amendments/regulation. Checked Croatian home possession versus habitual presence, state-service scope, treaty qualification and TI/TU directions. Checked Romania's 2025 ordinary settled-status/residence requirements, absences, qualified reductions, interview and protective-measure exceptions, separate restoration/descent B1 rule, oath exceptions and pending-case transition; future electronic-filing provisions are not treated as current eligibility changes. Read ANAF's actual computer consolidation through OUG 38/2026 by public HTTP and its actual 2025 guide, verifying worldwide/source scope, first-day triggers, foreign-employment exclusion, non-treaty departure tail, questionnaires and capped treaty credit. Checked Bulgaria's citizenship Act through June 2026, five years since permanent OR long-term permission, conduct/livelihood/release conditions and presidential decree; the September 2026 exam notice corroborates the linked 2015 regulation without establishing a CEFR equivalence. Downloaded and read the NRA tax statute's DOCX body despite its .rtf URL, preserving its March 2026 edition caveat and corroborating Articles 4-8 with both live NRA pages. No passport-only tax conclusion, blanket exemption, approval guarantee or proposed-rule inference was accepted. Candidate schema and exact hash are checked separately before handoff; no application artifact, deployment or unrelated review was changed."},"url":"https://multipassrank.com/passport/romania/citizenship","disclaimer":"General information, not legal advice or a finding of eligibility. Requirements depend on the route, applicant and filing date. Verify the official instructions before applying."},{"code":"RO","topic":"taxes","title":"Romania Tax Residence and Foreign Income","summary":"Romanian tax residence depends on domicile, vital interests or qualifying presence. Worldwide scope has foreign-employment and treaty qualifications, and moving to a non-treaty country can preserve a longer tax obligation.","scope":"Selected individual residence and taxable-income scope under ANAF's Fiscal Code updated through Emergency Ordinance 38/2026, with its stated 2025 residence guide; not personal tax advice or a tax-rate comparison.","jurisdiction":"Romania: individual income tax","facts":[{"id":"residence","label":"Alternative residence tests","text":"Domestic residence tests include Romanian domicile, a Romanian centre of vital interests, or presence exceeding 183 days in any consecutive twelve-month period ending in the calendar year concerned. Romanian citizens serving abroad as officials or employees of the Romanian state have a separate rule, not applicable to all citizens abroad.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["top20-ro-tax-code"],"locator":"Article 7 point 28(a)-(d)"},{"id":"scope","label":"Worldwide versus Romanian-source income","text":"Residents generally enter worldwide taxation for taxable income categories, while non-residents face the specified Romanian-source obligations. For the presence trigger, worldwide scope starts from the first arrival day; for vital interests, from the first day declared as such. Treaty residence and statutory exemptions can change the result.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["top20-ro-tax-code","top20-ro-tax-residence-guide"],"locator":"Article 59(1)-(3); residence guide section 3.2.4, printed page 6"},{"id":"foreign-employment","label":"Foreign employment has a specific exclusion","text":"Employment abroad paid by a non-resident employer is generally not taxable or reportable in Romania. Pay by or on behalf of an employer resident in Romania or having a Romanian permanent establishment is different where Romania has the taxing right. This is not an all-foreign-income exemption.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["top20-ro-tax-code"],"locator":"Article 76(4)(o) and methodological rule 19 concerning work performed abroad"},{"id":"departure","label":"A non-treaty move can leave a tax tail","text":"A Romanian-resident individual domiciled in Romania who proves a move to a non-treaty country remains within worldwide scope for the change year and the next three calendar years. A treaty-country move instead needs evidence establishing the residence-change date under that treaty.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["top20-ro-tax-residence-guide","top20-ro-tax-code"],"locator":"Residence guide section 4.1, printed page 9; Article 59(5)-(7)"},{"id":"questionnaires","label":"Arrival and departure questionnaires","text":"Qualifying arrivals exceeding 183 days file the residence questionnaire within 30 days after that threshold. Covered departures exceeding 183 days abroad in twelve months require a questionnaire 30 days before leaving. Foreign residence certificates and supporting evidence matter; diplomatic and state-service exceptions must be checked separately.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["top20-ro-tax-residence-guide"],"locator":"Sections 3.2.1-3.2.3 and 3.3.2-3.3.4, printed pages 4-5 and 7-8"},{"id":"double-tax-relief","label":"Treaty credit or exemption is conditional","text":"Applicable treaties can provide foreign-tax credit or exemption. Credit requires supporting proof and is capped by the Romanian tax attributable to that foreign income, calculated separately by source country and income category.","state":"conditional","sourceIds":["top20-ro-tax-code"],"locator":"Article 131: foreign-tax credit and exemption conditions"}],"limits":["Romanian nationality alone does not establish worldwide taxation. Domicile, residence-change dates, the particular income and the applicable treaty require separate assessment.","The special foreign-employment exclusion is not a general exemption for pensions, rent, dividends, self-employment or investment income. Rates, withholding, social contributions and detailed return calculations are outside this baseline.","ANAF labels the online Code a computer-generated consolidation rather than an official republication. The guide file name contains 2023, but the actual document is the 2025 edition; it is not described here as a new 2026 publication."],"review":{"decision":"approved","reviewer":"/root/top20_italy_spain","reviewedAt":"2026-09-17","recheckBy":"2026-12-16","candidateSha256":"8e5cd81e0b1714d370da38a03756384ed9736e5b967ec452de93b09f95ac0fd0","notes":"Independent review of all 17 retained official authorities and all six topics. Removed one redundant Romanian consolidated-Act source after repeated web, Node and curl access failures; no preview or author-only read was treated as independent verification. The accessible updated Law 14/2025 fully supports the affected clauses through Article I points 1, 3, 8, 22-23 and Article XIV, so only source references and locators changed. Checked Croatia's eight continuous registered years plus permanent status, release exceptions, limited foreign-education B1 proof, over-60 exemption and 15-question civic test against the current FAQ and operative amendments/regulation. Checked Croatian home possession versus habitual presence, state-service scope, treaty qualification and TI/TU directions. Checked Romania's 2025 ordinary settled-status/residence requirements, absences, qualified reductions, interview and protective-measure exceptions, separate restoration/descent B1 rule, oath exceptions and pending-case transition; future electronic-filing provisions are not treated as current eligibility changes. Read ANAF's actual computer consolidation through OUG 38/2026 by public HTTP and its actual 2025 guide, verifying worldwide/source scope, first-day triggers, foreign-employment exclusion, non-treaty departure tail, questionnaires and capped treaty credit. Checked Bulgaria's citizenship Act through June 2026, five years since permanent OR long-term permission, conduct/livelihood/release conditions and presidential decree; the September 2026 exam notice corroborates the linked 2015 regulation without establishing a CEFR equivalence. Downloaded and read the NRA tax statute's DOCX body despite its .rtf URL, preserving its March 2026 edition caveat and corroborating Articles 4-8 with both live NRA pages. No passport-only tax conclusion, blanket exemption, approval guarantee or proposed-rule inference was accepted. Candidate schema and exact hash are checked separately before handoff; no application artifact, deployment or unrelated review was changed."},"url":"https://multipassrank.com/passport/romania/taxes","disclaimer":"General information, not personal tax advice. Nationality, tax residence and source of income are different questions. 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