Admission Is the Condition, and Preparation Counts as Study
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Costa Rica on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
98 exceptions recorded across 37 countries · none match Costa Rica to Germany · Residency as a student
A foreigner is issued a residence permit for full-time study at a state or state-recognised higher education institution, or a comparable body, if that institution has admitted them. Admission is the operative word: the permit follows the place. The purpose of study also covers preparatory measures and a compulsory internship, and the regulation names the two preparatory things it means - a preparatory language course where admission is conditional on it, and a Studienkolleg or comparable institution where the applicant has been accepted to one.
At a glance
- What triggers the permit
- Admission by the institution
- Preparatory language course
- Inside the purpose, where admission is conditional on it
- Studienkolleg
- Inside the purpose, where the applicant has been accepted
- Compulsory internship
- Covered by the same purpose
- What this record does not cover
- Means of subsistence and health insurance, which are general conditions elsewhere in the Act
Requirements
- Admission by a state or state-recognised higher education institution, or a comparable body
- Full-time study
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Costa Rica
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Einem Ausländer wird zum Zweck des Vollzeitstudiums an einer staatlichen Hochschule, an einer staatlich anerkannten Hochschule oder an einer vergleichbaren Bildungseinrichtung eine Aufenthaltserlaubnis erteilt, wenn er von der Bildungseinrichtung zugelassen worden ist. Der Aufenthaltszweck des Studiums umfasst auch studienvorbereitende Maßnahmen und das Absolvieren eines Pflichtpraktikums. Studienvorbereitende Maßnahmen sind 1. der Besuch eines studienvorbereitenden Sprachkurses, wenn der Ausländer zu einem Vollzeitstudium zugelassen worden ist und die Zulassung an den Besuch eines studienvorbereitenden Sprachkurses gebunden ist, und 2. der Besuch eines Studienkollegs oder einer vergleichbaren Einrichtung, wenn die Annahme zu einem Studienkolleg oder einer vergleichbaren»The grant and what the purpose covers. The quotation ends where the stored line ends.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Germany's consolidated federal statute book, served as plain HTML with the whole Act on one page at a stable address built from its Bundesgesetzblatt number. Each Act carries a footer stating the amendment it is current to.
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Practical notes
A study permit is one of the purposes expressly excluded from counting towards naturalisation under section 10 of the citizenship Act, which the citizenship record carries.
Working alongside study is governed by other provisions and is not read here.
- consolidatesAufenthaltsgesetz, § 16b
Gesetze im Internet, Bundesministerium der Justiz und Bundesamt für Justiz
About this source
Germany's consolidated federal statute book, served as plain HTML with the whole Act on one page at a stable address built from its Bundesgesetzblatt number. Each Act carries a footer stating the amendment it is current to.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The portal states that the texts are not official and that the Bundesgesetzblatt governs. It is served as ISO-8859-1 with the charset in a meta tag, so a fetch assuming UTF-8 destroys every umlaut. The English translations published alongside are explicitly non-binding and are never quoted here.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source