Immigration procedures

Our International Office will apply for your visa and/or residence permit.

If you are officially admitted (or admitted under condition) for a study at Saxion, it is time to have a look at your immigration procedures. We will handle all immigration related matters for you, but we understand you would like to know the process and what you need to do to successfully start your study in the Netherlands. (We strongly recommend no travel plans are made or costs are incurred until a decision regarding your visa application is made and the visa has been issued by the Dutch embassy.)

We need you to take the following steps so that we can apply for your visa and/or residence permit:

1.  Fulfil the payment mentioned on the invoice you received before the deadline.
2. Check which category applies to you and download only the relevant files.
3. Upload the following documents in sis.saxion.nl:
   - Immigration Application form
   - Appendix Antecedents Certificate
   - Upload a copy of your passport including all stamped pages
   
   After you have completed step 1, 2 and 3:
4. We will apply for your visa and/or residence permit around June or July, we cannot give the exact date of application for your visa/residence permit.
5. You will receive an email once the application is sent to the IND (immigration services).
6. You will have to wait around 3 weeks for an approval.
7. You will receive an email once the application has been approved, including information with the next steps you need to take.

Disclaimer:

• Saxion University of Applied Sciences retains the right to refuse to apply for a student visa/residence permit if there are significant concerns about the applicant's intended purpose of stay in the Netherlands.
• Saxion International Office acts as an intermediary and has no influence whatsoever on the outcome or duration of the visa application process

Start of application process

Saxion University of Applied Sciences is only allowed to submit visa/residence permit applications to the IND 3 months prior to start of the study programme. For the September intake, the start date is 1 September. 

Please be aware, Saxion is not able to prioritize certain applications and cannot accelerate the application process of the visa and or residence permit. 

Insurance

Non-EU students for whom Saxion has applied for an AON insurance, please be aware of the start date of 15 August. If you enter the Netherlands before this date, you may not be insured and have to arrange this yourself. 

Proof of financial means: 

The IND requires that you have sufficient financial means to cover your stay in the Netherlands.

If you receive a scholarship from your home country or an international scholarship fund (not STS/NLS) which (partly) covers the living costs, you can subtract the scholarship amount from the financial means amount on your invoice. In this case you need to upload the scholarship declaration in the Saxion portal (under ‘Proof of finances’). The declaration must show:

• the date;
• the institution granting the scholarship;
• your personal details (initials, surname and date of birth)
• the start and finish of the scholarship (exact start and end date);
• the amount you receive;
• optional: the name of the scholarship programme.

Read more about the proof of financial means via the link below:

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