Residence applications and fees: new rates in force from 1.1.2025

To make certain residence applications, you have to pay a contribution in advance: this is a contribution to the administrative costs of processing the application by the Immigration Department (DVZ).

The fees increase from 1 January 2025. Below is an overview of the most common residence applications.

Contribution: €236 (2024: €229)

• residence application to study at a private educational institution

• residence application as a self-employed person with a professional card or exemption

• residence application for humanitarian reasons

• application for a return visa

Contribution: € 213 (2024: € 206)

• application for family reunification as spouse or partner of a foreign national with a right of permanent residence

• application for family reunification as spouse or partner of a foreign national with a fixed-term right of residence

• application for family reunification as spouse, partner or non-disabled descendant who is older than eighteen years of a Belgian national who has not exercised his right to free movement

• application for family reunification as father or mother of a minor Belgian child

Contribution: € 198 (2024: € 192)

• application for residence to return to Belgium after an absence of more than one year

• application for second residence in Belgium as a long-term resident in another state of the European Union

Contribution: € 245 (2024: € 237)

• residence application to study at a publicly organized, recognized, or subsidized higher education institution

Contribution: € 148 (2024: € 144)

• residence application of a foreign national carrying out a project as a researcher with a guest agreement at recognized institution

• residence application as a highly skilled worker

• application for a single permit

• residence application as seasonal worker

• residence application of an Intra-Corporate Transferee

Certain foreign nationals are exempt from the fee. In case of a change of status (e.g. a change from short-term to long-term residence), where one of the above residence applications is made, the fee must also be paid.

Our specialists can assist you in determining the applicable fee or in submitting residence applications.