Current students

To keep your student visa, you need to make sufficient academic progress. By law, you have to successfully complete at least 50% of the nominal study load. In most cases that means earning a minimum of 30 ECTS credits per academic year. What happens if you earn below that? HAN notifies the IND and they will invalidate your residence permit.

Each year you need to show us you have sufficient financial means to cover study and living expenses of the following study year as well as suitable health insurance. HAN Immigration can ask you to provide additional evidence at any time.

If you decide to quit your program during the academic year, we'll notify the IND that you're no longer a student at HAN as of the date of your request for disenrollment. You'll then have 90 days to leave the Netherlands. Before you leave the Netherlands, you need to take certain steps. Please make sure to follow all the instructions: Leaving the Netherlands | IND

Are you switching to a program at another institution in the Netherlands? Based on your new enrollment, the IND lets you keep your residence permit and you can continue living and studying in the Netherlands.