National Students or Equivalent

National or Equivalent Status Students are the students who are in one of the following situations:

• Students who have a European Union (EU) country nationality or are nationals of a Country that is party to the European Economic Area Agreement;
• Relatives of Portuguese citizens or of nationals of another European Union country, or relatives of nationals of a Country that is party to the European Economic Area Agreement, regardless of their nationality;
• Students who are not nationals of a European Union country or of a Country that is party to the European Economic Area Agreement, and are not included in the aforementioned situation, and who have been residing legally in Portugal for more than two years, uninterruptedly, on 1st January of the year they intend to apply to a higher education institution, and their children living legally with them as well. The time of residence in Portugal with a Student Visa is only relevant during the period in which students are attending secondary education in Portugal;
• Students who, on 1st January of the year they intend to apply to a higher education institution, are holders of the status of equal rights and duties awarded pursuant to an international treaty signed by the Portuguese Government and the State where they are from;
• Foreign citizens who enter Portuguese Higher Education Institutions under the Special Access Systems within the scope of the National Contest of Access and Admission:

1. Scholarship holders that are nationals of Portuguese-speaking African Countries;
2. Nationals from East Timor;
3. Foreign staff members of a diplomatic mission accredited in Portugal and their relatives also living in Portugal, under a system of reciprocity.

• Foreign students that are attending the university of Coimbra within the scope of an international mobility programme in order to accomplish part of a cycle of studies of a foreign higher education institution with which an interchange agreement has been made with that aim.