Shanghai Foreign Spouses Settlement Policy

The policy for foreign spouses to settle in Shanghai is as follows:

1. A party with permanent residence in Shanghai 10 years, legally registered marriage 10 years and over 35 years old may be allowed to settle in the spouse's residence;

2. People from other provinces and cities refer to unemployed people in agricultural registered permanent residence and non-agricultural registered permanent residence, and residents with permanent residence in this city refer to those who have registered their permanent residence in this city for 10 years, registered their marriage for 10 years according to law, and have reached the age of 35, and can be allowed to settle in their spouses' domicile;

3. Ethnic minorities in other provinces and cities, returned overseas Chinese, children of returned overseas Chinese, and residents with permanent residence in this city refer to those who have registered their permanent residence in this city for seven years and registered their marriage for seven years according to law, and can be allowed to settle in their spouses' residence;

4. People from other provinces and cities and disabled residents of this Municipality may be allowed to settle in the place where their spouses' accounts are located after they have been registered for marriage for five years according to law.

The procedures for the transfer of marriage accounts are as follows:

1. With the marriage certificate and the woman's household registration book, go to the police station where the woman's household registration is located to change her marital status to "married" and issue a "household registration certificate";

2. Fill in the application form at the man's police station with the household registration book, male and female ID cards, marriage certificate, woman's household registration certificate and man's village neighborhood committee certificate, and report it to the county public security bureau for approval. Some areas require family planning and marriage and childbirth certificates;

3. After passing the examination, you can move in online, or you can move back to the woman's police station with the "Certificate of Permission to Move in";

4. After the woman settles down, she needs to apply for an ID card again.

To sum up, those who have been married to Shanghainese for 10 years can apply to settle in Shanghai. People from other provinces and cities and residents with permanent residence in Shanghai refer to those who have permanent residence in Shanghai for 10 years, have been legally registered for marriage for 10 years, have reached the age of 35, and can be allowed to settle in the domicile of their spouses. The same applies to the married couple who settle in Shanghai, and the spouse also needs to calculate the marriage age 10 year after settlement before applying for settlement.

Legal basis:

Article 19 of the Regulations on Household Registration

When a citizen's household registration changes due to marriage, divorce, adoption, claim, separation, merger, disappearance, withdrawal or other reasons, the head of the household or himself shall declare the change registration to the household registration authority.