Higher Education in Portugal

Considering Paragraph 1 of Article 3 of Decree-Law 36/2014 of 10 March, an international student is any student who does not have Portuguese nationality, except for those from EU member States; anyone who is not from a EU Member State, and has legally resided in Portugal for over two, uninterrupted years, on August 31 of the year they intend to enroll higher education and the children residing with them legally; anyone that request admission to higher education through special admission regimes, regulated by Decree-Law 393-A/99 of October 2, amended by Decree-Law 272/2009 of October 1.