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Practical issues

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Checklist www.studyin.nl

Visa and permits

Insurance

Housing

Diploma evaluation

Support in your home country

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Visa and residence permit< 3 months • Enter Holland with ‘short stay visa’ (Visum Kort Verblijf, VKV) • Report to the local immigration authorities• Register at your host institution when you arrive

> 3 months • Enter Holland with ‘provisional residence permit’ (Machtiging tot Voorlopig Verblijf,

MVV)• Report to the local immigration authorities • Register at your host institution when you arrive• Register with the municipality (GBA) as an inhabitant of the local municipality

(within 5 days)• Dutch host institution can apply for student: fast-track procedure

• Check Student Visa Wizard on www.studyin.nl• Questions? immigration@nuffic.nl

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Insurance• Dutch law requires everyone living in Holland to be covered by health

insurance• Students must make sure that they have adequate cover

There are three healthcare insurance possibilities:• You have to take out a Dutch public healthcare insurance • Your insurance policy in your home country covers your stay in the

Netherlands• You take out a new or special insurance policy for your stay in the

Netherlands

Lippmann: www.ace-ips-nl.com

AON: www.students-insurance.eu

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Housing• Finding a place to live in a country as crowded as Holland is not easy• Before coming to Holland, first ask your host institution whether or not housing

will be arranged for you in advance• In most cases the host institution will arrange student accommodation for the

first year• Very common to rent rooms on the private market• Rooms usually unfurnished, and kitchens/bathrooms often shared• Average monthly room rent: €300-500 (incl. electricity, water, gas)• More information: www.studyin.nl

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Diploma evaluation• Nuffic is central point of contact for the evaluation of foreign diplomas• evaluates around 9,000 diplomas a year • Where possible, a foreign diploma is compared to a Dutch diploma• In-house experts specialized in the education systems of specific countries • Nuffic is also able to determine whether a programme or an educational

institution is officially recognized and tests the authenticity of diplomas

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Support in your home country• Dutch Embassy or Consulate• Netherlands Alumni Associations• Netherlands Education Support Offices• Netherlands Education Information Offices

Working after your study• Search period of a year to find a job after graduation• Apply for a change in the purpose of stay in your residence

permit: ‘seeking work after graduation’• The new residence permit is meant to look for a job as a so

called ‘highly skilled migrant’, but also allowed to look for a job as a regular ‘labour migrant’

• During search period you’re not allowed to get State grants, but you may work without work permit

• After search period no job found, then return to home country• When found a job, then change purpose of stay again

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More information?

www.studyin.nl