Study in Belgium: Student Visa requirements for Study in Belgium

Student Visa requirements for Belgium differ from nationality to nationality.

Foreign students from outside of the European Union who wish to study in Belgium must file a student visa application with the Belgian diplomatic or consular representation in the country of origin.
Students from a European Union Member State must carry a national identity card in order to come to Belgium.
Within eight days following their arrival in Belgium, all students irrespective of nationality must register with the local administration of their place of residence in Belgium.
In order to receive authorization for temporary residence, an individual planning to come to Belgium to study will be required to provide the Belgian Embassy or Consulate in his/her country with the following documents:

A certificate of good conduct, a medical certificate and the following documents :

• A duly completed application form
• An admission or enrolment certificate for one of the recognised higher education establishments
• Grant-maintained or organised by the authority, or an application for an equivalence certificate for a   diploma or certificate conferred abroad (only required for French Community education). The entry certificate or enrolment certificate must cover a full-time course of study (fewer hours are acceptable if the interested party can prove that this course of study will represent his/her main activity and will be used to prepare or complement another full-time course of study); or
• An enrolment certificate concerning examinations for entering university when these examinations represent the condition for admission to the course in question: particularly the examination testing knowledge of the French language which is required to be entitled to study in French-speaking universities; the examination of qualification for civil engineering studies; the entry examination for medical or dentistry studies at a Dutch-speaking university; or
• An entry or enrolment certificate for a teaching establishment appearing on the list of approved establishments updated each academic year by the Aliens' Office;
• Evidence that the person applying to study in Belgium has sufficient means of support. This evidence may be established by the following documents:
• A certificate issued by either an international organisation or a national authority, or by a Belgian or foreign legal person with a sufficient level of income. The certificate must state that the aspiring foreign student has received or will soon receive a grant or loan that is sufficient to cover his/her health care, subsistence, studies and repatriation expenses;
• A declaration in respect of the Belgian State and in respect of the student, signed by a Belgian or alien with a sufficient level of income, in which the said person undertakes to accept responsibility for the subsistence, study and repatriation expenses of the foreign student for not less than one academic year;
• A medical certificate issued by a doctor approved by the embassy, stating that the foreign student is not suffering from certain illnesses and does not have certain disabilities;
• If the interested party is over 21, a certificate of good conduct and a document certifying that he/she has not been convicted of any criminal act under common law.
• Visa applicants must be aware that the documents referred to only constitute the basic documents that have to be submitted in every case. Other additional documents may be required by the Belgian diplomatic or consular representation, taking into account the circumstances relating to the file or to the specific context of the applicant's country of origin.
• The interested party must obviously have a travel document (passport) valid for at least one year