Attention You preferably come to Belgium with a visa type D
Contact the Belgian embassy in this regard.
Prefer to apply for your visa in Belgium? Bear in mind that this may take a long time and that your application may be rejected.

For whom?

You meet all 3 conditions below:

• You do not have the nationality of an EU country, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
• You are coming to Belgium for more than 3 months.
• You do not have a visa type D for one of the following reasons:
  • You do not require a visa for a short stay in the Schengen area.
  • You hold a valid residence card of another Schengen country.

Not intended for:

• Foreign students
  Are you coming to Belgium to study at a Belgian university or college? Then you register as a foreign student.
• Application for family reunification with a family member who is a citizen of an EU country, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland
  Are you coming to Belgium to apply for family reunification with your family member? If so, you immediately submit an application for a change of residence status from short stay to a long stay of more than 3 months (you do not need to report your short stay first).

Is this not your situation?
Then your registration will proceed differently.
Check how to register

How to register?

1. Report your short stay
   • Report your short stay.
     You may only report to the city, not to the federal authorities.
   • State in your application that you wish to submit an application for long stay during your short stay (e.g. so as to work in Belgium or for family reunification).
   • We will provide you with the necessary information regarding your application for long stay.
2. Submit your application for long stay
   Before the period of your short stay expires, you submit your application for long stay.

More info

• FPS Home Affairs
• Agentschap Integratie en Inburgering