Entry visa & residence permit
As a non-EEA student, you’ll probably need an entry visa and/or residence permit to stay and study in the Netherlands.
It is not possible to arrange this yourself. The Royal Academy of Art will apply for your entree visa and/or residence permit after you have been officially admitted to your study programme, uploaded the required documents and transferred your tuition fee, the visa application fee and your living fee to the academy’s bank account.
Provisional Residence Permit (MVV)
Students not coming from the EU/EEA, Australia, Canada, Japan, Monaco, New Zealand, South Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom or the USA need a Provisional Residence Permit (Machtiging tot Voorlopig Verblijf (MVV).
This is an entry visa, required for travel to the Netherlands if a student plans to stay longer than three months. The combined MVV/VVR application procedure is called Entry and Residence (Toegang en Verblijf/TEV) procedure.
During the application procedure for an MVV it will be determined whether the student meets all the requirements for a Dutch residence permit (VVR) in the Netherlands, before arriving in the country.
An MVV is a sticker that is placed in the passport by the Dutch embassy of your home country and it allows the student to cross the border into the Netherlands.
Students will have to pay the handling fee (administration fee) for the application procedure to the Royal Academy of Art in advance. Please see section below about VVR for more details.
Please note: if students need an MVV and they come to the Netherlands without one, they will have to go back to their country to get an MVV first!
Residence permit (VVR)
Students of an EEA member state (or Switzerland) do not need a Dutch residence permit. For their enrolment as a student and registration with the municipality, their valid passport/national identity card is sufficient.
All other newly accepted non-EEA students will receive information and instructions about the application for a residence permit (VVR) for study purposes in the framework of their registration. For the application, students should submit all the relevant documents (as listed below) by uploading these to their Osiris Online Application.
The Royal Academy of Art will submit the VVR application before the arrival of the student in the Netherlands.
VVR handling fee: €243
Students will have to pay the VVR handling fee (administration fee) to the Royal Academy of Art in advance. Paying the fee does not automatically mean that the application will be granted!
The fee must be paid even if the application is turned down.
Changing the purpose of stay from a different purpose to study on a residence permit is regarded as a new application and it also costs €243.
Renewal VVR for study purpose (for instance, from Bachelor to Master studies) also costs €243.
Please find more details on the VVR handling fee here.
Required documents for application residence permit
The requirements and necessary documents to get a Dutch study residence permit are listed below and apply to all students who need a Dutch study residence permit. Therefore, all non-EEA students, with the exception of Swiss nationals, will need to upload the following documents through our online application portal Osiris.
For your residence permit we need a scanned copy of your valid passport with all stamped pages (except empty pages) in one upload.
Scanned copy of an original completed and signed IND Antecedents Certificate to confirm that you do not have a criminal record.
Declaration of intent to undergo a Tuberculosis (TB) test.
Once students have arrived in the Netherlands, they have to undergo a tuberculosis examination.
For this purpose, they have to schedule an appointment with the tuberculosis department of the local Municipal Health Service (GGD Haaglanden): GGD Haaglanden.
Students will have to pay a fee of €50 for the tuberculosis test (first screening) in advance. Follow-up screenings (if necessary) will be free of charge.
Some nationalities are exempt from TB test requirement:
IND: List of nationalities exempt from the TB test requirement
The final requirement is that you can prove that you have sufficient financial means to pay for the cost of study and living in the Netherlands: at least € 1.094,12 per month / € 13.129,44 per year.
You can only prove your sufficient financial means by transferring the full amount of the living fee (€ 13.129,44 ) to the academy’s bank account in advance. This amount will be returned to you upon your arrival in the Netherlands and after you have opened a Dutch bank account. It goes without saying that in the meantime your money is safe with us and if for any reason you will not be studying with us, we will refund the amount immediately.
After we have received all the documents listed above and the payment of
- your tuition fee (€ 11.092)
- the residence permit handling fee (€ 243) and your living fee (€ 13.129,44)
we will start the application of your study residence permit.
Requirements after arriving in the Netherlands
For students who do not need an MVV-sticker, the first step after arriving in the Netherlands is registering your biometric information at the IND. Students with an MVV-sticker have already done this in their home country.
After the academy has received a letter of intent from the IND, students who do not need an MVV-sticker will be invited to register their biometric information at a nearby IND Desk. At the IND Desk or Service Point, the IND will take a digital passport photo and take fingerprints.
Students are responsible for making an appointment to register their biometrics themselves. You can choose which location you want to go to. Providing biometrics is free of charge. The Student Administration will provide more details when the time comes.
As soon as the residence permit application is approved, the Royal Academy of Art will inform the student and pass on the necessary information to collect the residence permit from the IND.
The IND organizes 3 central collection days to pick up your residence permit in August, September and October. The booking system opens 2 weeks prior to the scheduled date to book a time slot.
You will be informed of the exact days by the Student Administration. We strongly advise you to be available on one of the collection days to pick up your permit.
Please keep in mind that after completion of every study year, higher education institutions are required to monitor that students with a Dutch residence permit for study purpose have made sufficient study progress (at least 50% of the required ECTS amount per study year) and that they still meet the formal requirements (for instance, financial) for a such a residence permit. If not, higher education institutions must report this to the IND and consequently, the IND may revoke the residence permit.
Questions?
Contact
Contact us via e-mail at studentenadministratie@kabk.nl
and/or international@kabk.nl. Exchange students can contact us at exchange@kabk.nl
Links
FAQ: residence permit arrangements
Information about visa procedures, rules & regulations:
www.nuffic.nl
www.ind.nl