IND Student Days: collect your residence document

During the Student Days the IND distributes residence documents (cards) to all new international students in the Netherlands. Are you from outside the EU, EEA or Switzerland and is your application to study in the Netherlands approved? Your educational institution notifies you on which Student Day you can collect your card. And how you can make an appointment for that day. There are 3 IND Student Days:

• Saturday 24 August 2024
• Saturday 14 September 2024
• Saturday 5 October 2024

You need an appointment to collect your card. This is how you make an appointment: 

• Use the link to the online appointment planner ‘Collect residence document study’. You will receive this link from your educational institution. Do not use another appointment planner. 
• At ‘Desk’, choose the colour you have received from your educational institution: green, yellow, blue or red. 
• Choose a time. Make sure you arrive on time on your Student Day. 
• The IND needs your photo, fingerprints and signature to make a card. First check if you still need to make a biometrics appointment. 

What to bring to your Student Day

• Your passport. You will not receive your card without your passport. 
• Your appointment code. You will find this code in the email confirmation of your appointment.

Location Student Days

Jaarbeurs Utrecht - Beatrixgebouw (Beatrix Building)
Jaarbeursplein 6
3521 AL Utrecht

This is near the central train and bus station (in Dutch: Utrecht Centraal). You can find directions on www.jaarbeurs.nl/en/practical-information. A host brings you to the right desk. 

To make your card, the IND needs your photo, fingerprints and signature. If the IND does not have this data yet, your educational institution will notify you to make a biometrics appointment. Make sure there are at least 14 days between this appointment and your Student Day. If not, your card will not be ready. 

Make a biometrics appointment

This is how you make a biometrics appointment: 

• Use the link to the online appointment planner ‘Biometric information (Study)’. You will receive this link from your educational institution. Do not use another appointment planner. 
• Choose an IND desk or expat center in the application planner. 
• Choose a day and time.  

What to bring to your biometrics appointment

• Your passport. 
• Your appointment code. You will find this code in the email confirmation of your appointment.

Do you have a question about: 

• The Student Days? Contact your educational institution.
• Your right of residence or working in the Netherlands? Go to the IND information desk in the Beatrix Building on your Student Day. 
• Practical things like housing, opening a bank account or health insurance? Go to one of the special information points in the Beatrix Building on your Student Day. 
• Your residence permit? Read the brochure: 
  Your residence permit 1331 (PDF, 1.36 MB)