Residence permit for students
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Titre de sejour pour « etudiant » as of 2026-06-12[3] Art. 57(1) names the title 'titre de sejour pour «etudiant»'. |
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| Official name (English) | Residence permit for students as of 2023-07-10[2] Guichet's own English rendering. |
| Legal basis | Loi modifiee du 29 aout 2008 sur la libre circulation des personnes et l'immigration, art. 56 to 59 as of 2026-06-12[3] Art. 56 sets the conditions and defines which establishments count as higher education; art. 57 the permit's term, renewal, the work cap and the withdrawal grounds; art. 58 intra-EU student mobility; art. 59 the move to a salaried-worker or self-employed authorisation after graduation. |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-06-12[3] Art. 57(1) issues a 'titre de sejour' under art. 40. |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA, EFTA as of 2023-07-10[2] 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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| Criminal-record condition | Yes as of 2023-07-10[2] Guichet's document lists require a criminal-record extract or affidavit from the country of residence at the authorisation stage and a recent Luxembourg criminal-record extract at renewal. Art. 56 states no criminal-record condition; the public-order test sits in art. 34. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | at least 1 year as of 2026-06-12[2][3] Art. 57(1): the permit is 'valable pour une duree minimale d'un an' – a floor, hence bound 'minimum'. Art. 57(2): where the study cycle runs under a year the permit covers the study period. Students on an EU or multilateral mobility programme, or under an agreement between two or more higher-education institutions, receive at least two years or the length of the studies if shorter. Guichet renders this as 'valid either for a minimum of 1 year or only for the duration of the study cycle in the event its duration is shorter'. |
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| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-06-12[2][3] Art. 57(1): renewable on request for the same period of validity as long as the conditions of grant remain met. |
| Renewal duration | at least 1 year as of 2026-06-12[3] Art. 57(1): renewal runs 'pour la meme periode de validite' as the initial permit. |
| Work rights | hours capped as of 2026-06-12[2][3] Art. 57(3): the holder may carry on a salaried activity limited to an average of fifteen hours per week over a one-month period, outside study time. The cap does not apply to salaried work during school holidays, to research work done for a doctorate within the higher-education establishment or an art. 65 accredited research organisation, or to the employment contracts of University of Luxembourg assistants. Guichet adds that the permit's 'observations' field carries the information on eligibility for work. |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-06-12[2][3] Not established. Neither art. 56 to 59 nor the guichet student page addresses whether student residence counts towards art. 80(1)'s five-year qualifying period for long-term resident status, and several countries count it partially or not at all. Recorded unknown rather than assumed, and citizenship_counting_factor is omitted per schema section 6.4 (recorded only where the counting rule is explicit). |
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Requirements
| Enrolment status required | admitted as of 2026-06-12[2][3] Art. 56(1)1: the applicant must have been admitted to a higher-education establishment to follow, as their principal activity, a full-time cycle leading to a higher-education qualification awarded by that establishment. Art. 56(2) limits the establishments to the University of Luxembourg, establishments delivering the Brevet de technicien superieur, and private higher-education institutions authorised under the Law of 14 August 1976. Guichet requires 'proof that they are enrolled in a higher education establishment in Luxembourg', which is the later stage of the same condition; the statute's 'admis' governs. |
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| Means requirement | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-06-12[2][3] |
| Work-hours cap | 15 as of 2026-06-12[2][3] Art. 57(3): a maximum average of fifteen hours per week over a one-month period, outside study time. The exemptions for holiday work, doctoral research and University of Luxembourg assistants are recorded on permit.work_rights. |
| Post-study route exists | Yes as of 2026-06-12[1][3] Two distinct onward routes exist. Art. 59 lets a graduate of a university cycle of at least five years, or a successful doctoral candidate, be granted a salaried-worker or self-employed authorisation directly, provided the intended activity relates to their academic training. Art. 67-4 grants a separate twelve-month job-search or business-creation title, recorded as its own route (lu-job-search-business-creation). |
| Post-study permit duration | 12 months as of 2026-06-12[3] Art. 67-4(4): the job-search or business-creation title runs for twelve months and is not renewable. |
| Post-study income requirement | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-06-12[3] The resources condition on the post-study job-search title is art. 67-4(1)2 and is recorded on that route; the same REVIS base problem applies and no amount is asserted. |
Physical presence
| maximum consecutive absence | 6 months · to keep the permit as of 2023-07-10[2] |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Not established from a qualifying source as of 2026-06-12[3] |
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Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 3 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 3 |
| 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] Staying in Luxembourg after completing studies – job search or business creation
Guichet.lu – State Information and Press Service, Luxembourg · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2023-09-01 · Accessed 2026-08-14 - [2] Applying for a residence permit for third-country students
Guichet.lu – State Information and Press Service, Luxembourg · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2023-07-10 · Accessed 2026-08-14 - [3] 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