International students are all those who do not have Portuguese nationality and who cumulatively do not fall into any of the following categories:
a) Foreign nationals of a Member State of the European Union;
b) Those who, not being foreign nationals of a Member State of the European Union, and not being covered by the preceding post, have been legally resident in Portugal for more than two years, uninterruptedly, on the 1st January of the year in which they wish to enter the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | NOVA Medical School;
c) Those who apply admission to Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | NOVA Medical School through the special access and entry regimes regulated by Decree-Law no. 393-B/99, of the 2nd October, amended by Decree-Law no. 272/2009, of the 1st October;
d) Those who are attending the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | NOVA Medical School under an international mobility program to carry out part of a study cycle of a foreign higher education institution with which the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | NOVA Medical School has established an exchange agreement for this purpose;
e) The relative members of Portuguese or foreign nationals of a Member State of the European Union, regardless of their nationality, in accordance with Law no. 37/2006, of 9th August;
f) Those who benefit, on the 1st January in the year they wish to try to enter the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | NOVA Medical School, of equal rights and duties granted under an international treaty granted between the Portuguese State and the State of which they are nationals;
You can also request the application of the status of international student who is in an emergency for humanitarian reasons.
Notice: Students who enter higher education under this contest will remain international students until the end of the course in which they initially enrolled or for which they will transit, even if, during their course of study, they will be granted equal status in terms of rights and duties, unless in the meantime they acquire the nationality of a Member State of the European Union. The cessation of the application of international student status as a result of the above shall take effect in the school year following the date on which nationality is acquired.