Additional tuition fee regulations for students with a specific resident status
If you do not have the nationality of an EU/EEA country, or from Switzerland or Suriname, you can sometimes still be eligible to pay the tuition fees for students from EU/EEA countries (or Switzerland or Suriname) (statutory) based on your special residence status for the Netherlands.
Contact the Student Services Centre if one of the following circumstances applies to you or will apply to you during the course of the academic year:
- You receive student finance from DUO (in the form of a basic grant, a possible supplementary grant, a possible regular loan and/or a student travel product) in the academic year concerned.
- You have a valid Dutch residence permit type ‘familielid EU/EER’, which means you are a family member of an EU/EEA citizen who resides in the Netherlands.
- You have a valid Dutch regular unlimited period residence permit (type II) or an asylum permit (type III or IV).
- You have a valid Dutch regular limited period residence permit (type I) with one of the extra-ordinary residency purposes referred to in "Article 3 Student Finance Decree".
- You have a valid Dutch residence permit type ‘Article 50 TEU’ (Brexit) for the purpose of ‘Residence document withdrawal agreement Art. 18(1)’.
- You hold a valid Dutch Foreign Nationals Identity Document (W-document).
- You are a national of a non-EU/EEA country, but you have a specific residence permit for “long-term resident-EC” from an EU country other than the Netherlands, in combination with a valid temporary residence permit for the Netherlands (e.g. for study). Please note: a regular long-term residence permit from an EU country other than the Netherlands will not suffice. The specific residence permit for “long-term resident-EC” will only be provided by an EU country on request if you meet certain additional requirements.