The Member States may, by law or regulation, authorise the entry and residence, pursuant to this Directive and subject to compliance with the conditions laid down in Chapter IV, of the unmarried partner, being a third country national, with whom the sponsor is in a duly attested stable long-term relationship, or of a third country national who is bound to the sponsor by a registered partnership in accordance with Article 5(2), and of the unmarried minor children, including adopted children, as well as the adult unmarried children who are objectively unable to provide for their own needs on account of their state of health, of such persons.
Države članice lahko na podlagi te direktive in v skladu s pogoji, določenimi v Poglavju IV, po zakonu ali predpisih dovolijo vstop in bivanje izvenzakonskemu partnerju, ki je državljan tretje države, s katerim je sponzor v potrjenem trdnem dolgoročnem razmerju, ali državljanu tretje države, ki je s sponzorjem vezan v registriranem partnerstvu v skladu s členom 5(2), in neporočenim mladoletnim otrokom takšnih oseb, vključno s posvojenimi otroki in odraslimi neporočenimi otroki, ki so objektivno nesposobni poskrbeti za svoje potrebe zaradi svojega zdravstvenega stanja.