Residence permit for pupils
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Titre de sejour pour « eleve » as of 2026-06-12[2] Art. 60(2) names the title 'titre de sejour pour «eleve»'. |
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| Official name (English) | Residence permit for pupils as of 2023-07-10[1] Guichet's hub lists the category as 'Pupils'; the page itself uses 'student' throughout for the same instrument, which is the secondary-school exchange permit rather than the higher-education one. |
| Legal basis | Loi modifiee du 29 aout 2008 sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration, art. 60 as of 2026-06-12[2] Art. 60(1) sets the seven conditions; (2) issues the permit. Art. 60(1)1 cross-refers to the Law of 25 June 2004 organising lycees and technical lycees. |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-06-12[2] |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA, EFTA as of 2023-07-10[1] Guichet: the route is for 'a third-country national (i.e. a national from a country which is not an EU Member State or a country treated as such – Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland)'. |
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| Minimum age | 14 as of 2026-06-12[1][2] Art. 60(1)3: the applicant must be at least 14 and at most 21 years old. The upper bound of 21 cannot be held in this field and is stated here; guichet states the same range. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | up to 1 year as of 2026-06-12[2] Art. 60(2): the permit is 'valable pour une duree maximale d'un an'. |
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| Renewable | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-06-12[1][2] Art. 60 states no renewal rule and guichet's page does not address renewal. Recorded unknown. |
| Work rights | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-06-12[1][2] |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-06-12[2] |
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Requirements
| Enrolment status required | admitted as of 2026-06-12[2] Art. 60(1)1: admission to a secondary-education establishment under the Law of 25 June 2004. |
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| Means requirement | Not applicable as of 2026-06-12[1][2] The resources condition on this route does not sit on the applicant. Art. 60(1)5 requires proof that the exchange organisation stands surety for the pupil throughout the stay, in particular for stay and return costs, and art. 60(1)6 that the pupil is hosted by a selected family or host structure under the exchange programme's rules. Guichet states the same. Recorded not_applicable rather than unknown: the question was asked of the operative provision and the answer is that no means test falls on the applicant. |
Process
| Where to apply from | from abroad only as of 2023-07-10[1] Guichet: the route addresses third-country nationals 'who reside in a third country and wish to establish residence in Luxembourg', with the authorisation to stay applied for before entry. |
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Physical presence
| none stated | to keep the permit as of 2023-07-10[1] No presence or absence rule was established for this route. The six-month rule recorded on Luxembourg's other third-country routes – a holder intending to leave for more than six months must return the permit and file a declaration of departure at the commune – is stated on the guichet pages for those routes and is not stated on the sources read for this one. Recorded none_stated rather than carried across, because the obligation's source is a page about a different permit. |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-06-12[2] |
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Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 2 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 2 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2023-07-10 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-06-12 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-17 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Applying for a residence permit for third-country pupils on an exchange programme
Guichet.lu – State Information and Press Service, Luxembourg · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2023-07-10 · Accessed 2026-08-14 - [2] Version consolidée applicable au 12/06/2026 : Loi du 29 août 2008 portant sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration
Journal officiel du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (Legilux) · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2026-06-12 · Accessed 2026-08-14