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For non-EU students coming to Croatia for secondary school or for university study at undergraduate, graduate or postgraduate level. It's a temporary-stay permit granted for the purpose of study, generally issued for up to a year at a time and renewed as your course continues. If you don't need a visa to enter Croatia you can even lodge the application at a local police administration once you're here.
It's a temporary-stay permit for non-EU students in secondary school or university programmes (undergraduate to postgraduate). It's generally issued for up to a year at a time and renewed as your course continues.
No. The digital nomad stay is only for remote work done for a foreign employer or your own foreign-registered business; you cannot work for a Croatian employer or provide services to clients in Croatia.
You need a recognized higher education qualification and a job contract of at least one year with a Croatian employer for a highly qualified role.
Work-based residents usually aim for EU long-term residence after five years of continuous legal residence (with a Croatian language and Latin script requirement). A separate permanent-stay status exists mainly for family, humanitarian or protection cases. The corpus doesn't cover citizenship rules.
It's a single permit covering both residence and work. For most jobs your employer starts with a labour-market test at the HZZ, then the stay-and-work application goes to MUP.
Skilled workers usually use the stay-and-work permit, or the EU Blue Card if highly qualified with a graduate-level qualification. Since 2021 there's no quota; for most roles the employer runs an HZZ labour-market test, which the Blue Card skips.
You can, but in the first two years a change of employer requires a new EU Blue Card application, while after two years you mainly notify the authorities and submit the new contract.
It's the status most work-based residents reach: after five years of continuous legal residence you can apply for EU long-term resident status. Croatia asks for knowledge of the Croatian language and Latin script, with some exemptions.
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Study abroad — Croatia