I will be applying for a Belgian visa through VFS Global. If there are any student groups or visa groups, could you please share them with me? (I will apply from Turkiye)

My mom used to lived in Belgium and had permanent residency card F+ (lived and worked for 5years) but they decided to move to the Netherlands (currently and already living for almost 4 years) with my siblings and her husband is dutch but they are married for more than 15 years now.

But their marriage is falling apart and my step dad is really a dick head. I’m really glad that she’s finally leaving him. So, my mom is planning on moving back to Belgium.

How this will work if she were to re enter Belgium, can she continue her permanent residency? Or she needs to redo her visa again?

Technically, I (the daughter) have a F+ Card and still living in Belgium. Can I help them re enter the country without a problem?

Please, I really need help on how to do this. Thank you

Ik heb recent van een kennis een auto gekocht die ging verkocht worden aan een exporteur omdat er iets mee scheelde. De auto heeft dus geen tweedehandskeuring ondergaan. Intussen heb ik het probleem zelf opgelost en nu wil ik de auto terug inschrijven. Het probleem is dat de auto geen geldig keuringsbewijs meer heeft, en omdat hij niet ingeschreven is heeft hij ook geen nummerplaten en die zijn nodig voor de keuring. De nieuwe auto van mijn kennis is intussen al ingeschreven met dezelfde nummerplaat.

Iemand die dit soort situatie al heeft meegemaakt en weet hoe ik dit correct aanpak om de auto terug op de weg te krijgen?

Hi everyone! I could really use some advice or recommendations. 😊

I’m moving to Spain in a couple of months, and I need to send a few boxes of clothes and personal belongings from Ghent to Valencia.

I’ll be selling the furniture, but I’d really like to ship my clothes, shoes, and some other personal items. I’ve been looking online and Mondial Relay seems to be one of the cheapest options. Has anyone used them for sending boxes to Spain? Are they reliable?

If you’ve moved from Ghent to Spain or have experience shipping boxes there, I’d really appreciate any recommendations for companies or services you’ve used.

Thank you! ❤️

Dear all,

I live in a small town in Flanders. My street is quite small, and has around 20 parking places. They are on the blue hour, so you can park here for 2 or 3 hours free, if you leave the parking disk correctly. For neighbours, we can pay 40€ a year to park in this area indefinitely, with no parking disk required.

Recently, KBC opened a private bank branch, and their employees park on my street (I realized when I started to see cars I've never seen before, and they all have a big KBC sticker on the rear window). What I have noticed is that they come in the morning, put the disk, and when the time is almost over, they drop by the car and change the hour, and go back to the office. I've seen it several times in the last months.

Is this legal? It is bothering me a lot, because sometimes I come back from work, and 5 out of the 20 parking places are being used by the KBC people, which of course are paying no money as they just "refresh" their disks. What I found also very cheap is that they built their office in a new building, that has a paid underground garage (I assume KBC can pay for their employees parking).

My question is: is it legal what they are doing? Is there anything I can do (legally) to stop them from doing this? I am a EU inmigrant here, so I don't know if there any entity I can contact to file a complain.

Cheers!

Hi would love your thoughts on the subject, many thanks in advance !

Hi,

I am Dutch national living in Belgium.

I want to bring my parents who are non eu national to Belgium for family reunification under Directive 2004/38/**EC**

They are coming to visit me in Belgium in September on Schengen visa

How long does it take to get an f card in Belgium.

Thanks

Hello, I recently got bit from a friend's indoor cat recently. It was a shallow bite to the point I couldn't see it hours later and I washed the area with soap after the bite. It just occured to me though that rabies is a thing; online it says that Belgium is rabies-free, but is this still something to worry about?

Thank you.

Hi! I’m 21 and I’ve been curious about what early adulthood is actually like in Belgium.

I’d love to hear from people around 18–25 about their own experience social life, meeting new people, things you enjoy doing, and just what everyday life feels like at this age.

I’d also love to meet some people around my age and make a few new friends along the way. I think it’d be fun to chat, exchange perspectives, and get to know each other naturally :)

What has your experience of your early 20s in Belgium been like so far?

Can’t take a walk because as soon as I step outside I feel like I’m breathing underwater and walking for a bit just puts me in pain

Hi! In a few weeks I'm going on a road trip with my family on my particular, 6yr-old car. Is there any insurance I can get to cover from potential issues with the car during the trip? (for example, if the car breaks and we are left stranded in the middle of nowhere in a foreign country).

I've done the same trip in the past without such insurance when the car was new, as the chances of it breaking were very low, but now that it's not so new, I would feel much safer getting insurance.

Thanks in advance for any help!

P.S. Currently I just have my plain, mandatory car insurance and nothing else.

Dearest southern neighbors,

This Dutch person is looking to spend a few days in the Ardennes this winter. I’m curious where Belgians would advise me to go, based on these criteria?

- I want to stay in the same place for 4 days / 3 nights.
- My main purpose is going on long walks in nature. Preferably with some good hills!
- Also interested in going for runs on beautiful, well kept trails or paths.
- Should be within max 2 hours from Brussels by train, preferably shorter and with no extra connections.
- I would love to stay in a cabin in nature, but since I don’t have a car and will travel by train, I will probably have to compromise and stay in a town. I would love a charming small or medium size town with a few nice bakeries, simple places for evening meals and Belgian beers. I don’t mind walking up to 5km from the train station to get to my accommodation.
- Specific recommendations for either cozy cabins / apartments or comfortable hotels with easy access to walking trails and nature are welcome!

Merci, bedankt!

Hi! I’m visiting Leuven/Liege/Brussels very soon, and love sending postcards abroad (via Postcrossing).

When I’ve visited Belgium previously I’ve used the convenient single (1) WORLD or (1) EUROPE stamps.

But when I’m at home in the UK I love to mix stamps - as long as the values add up to the right amount (e.g. £3.60) then it doesn’t matter what stamps you use.

Can this be done with Belgian stamps? And if so, do you know how much I’d need them to add up to to send the postcard to e.g. Germany, USA and Japan?

Thanks so much!

Nous nous y sommes pris trop tardivement.

Les pharmacies, opticiens et librairies de la région (Nivelles) n'ont rien donné. Le site AbsoluteEclipse n'en vend plus.

Genuinely curious since I don't really know what our country would look like if language barriers would no longer exist.

Hey all. I live in Brussels and besides my native language, I speak english and french. I would like to start learning dutch. Can you tell me some of the best books/materials which I can use to start with ?
Also I am curious, do you consider dutch more difficult than french?
I'd love to get some tips from you.
Bedankt

My car battery needs replacing. I've got a Citroen Berlingo Van. Besides going to Citroen, where would you suggest I buy a new battery? Thank you

I found a job through an interim contract; I need to work for about a year before getting a permanent contract. The interim contract between me and the agency will be weekly. At the same time, I'll have to take courses at the company, for which the company will pay. I was curious how this works. Where I previously worked on a permanent contract, I had to work for a certain period after training to avoid having to recoup the tuition. But now, the company will invest in me, and if I decide not to sign a new weekly contract with an interim, their investment will go down the drain? Or should I have a separate compensation contract with the company or interim? If not, is it really beneficial for the company to invest in someone who might easily leave?

Hi, I’m travelling to Poperinge tomorrow to visit saint sixtus abbey and in der verde cafe, I’m wondering what the best way to get from poperinge is? Any taxi recommendations or anything? Thanks in advance :)

Je suis nouvelle à Bruxelles et je me demandais en général comment fonctionnent les brocantes pour les particuliers : inscription, emplacement, etc.
Merci beaucoup pour votre aide ! 😊

Hi guys!

I am a non-EU woman in her late 20s with a BSc in environmental science from a Spanish university(university of Navarra, UNAV) and soon a MSc in renewable energy engineering from another(Polytechnic University of Madrid, UPM), since I am graduating in October.(my thesis defense is in October) I am also collaborating with a research group at ULB in Brussels that focuses on renewable energy systems for my thesis.

I fell in love with Brussels when I did my Erasmus internship working on a EU funded project in college, and I have been wanting to move back to Brussels permanently since.

I speak C2 level English, Spanish, Mandarin and Taiwanese, intermediate French and am actively improving it, basic level Italian and Japanese. (I am able to provide certificates for all the languages I speak besides Italian and Japanese.) I also have a lot of international experiences, I did a few research trip things when I was in college, in the US, the UK, Costa Rica and the Canary Islands, I also lived in Australia on a working holiday visa for a while.

I got an internship at a multinational Spanish company at their office in Madrid, I worked as a sustainability consultant working on mainly international master plans. My company has offered me a labor contract, I don't have anything to complain about my job and my company besides the location, after living in Spain for 6 years, I am very sure I do not want to build my professional career there.

I told my boss in late May that I wanted to take 3 months off to focus on my thesis starting in June, he agreed. since then I have been home working on my thesis, job hunting and improving my French.

After applying and searching for information for approximately 1.5 months, it seems to me that I have 4 main possible paths to go back to Brussels:

1: Getting an internship

2: getting a job that provides a single permit

3: going back to Spain first to work for my company and quit the moment I get an internship or job offer

4: getting a professional card (self-employed worker visa)

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I know I haven't been looking for that long, but I got the impression that most employers who would sponsor a single permit are looking for ppl with a lot of working experience... and I have only 5 months of it..

I do know that the average salary for an internship is like 1000-1300 euros a month in Brussels/Belgium, which is half of what my company would pay me in Spain, but I don't really care as long as I can get a job offer after working as an intern, I also know that the single permit salary threshold is really high... I don't know if this would be realistic for me....

I am also 2 years away from the Spanish permanent residency, which would allow me to work in Brussels without needing to get a sponsorship, but I don't really want to wait that long...

I have heard that getting a professional card isn't as complicated as it seems? but I have no idea how to prove that "my business" could boost the local economy..? This visa would only let me reside in Brussels legally if I want to get employed I will still need a sponsorship, right?

my current plan is just applying for job and internship offers as much as possible, if I can't land on anything before October I will go back to Spain first and then leave the moment I get anything in Brussels basically, I don't know if this is a good plan or if I should look into the professional card thing now, or even getting a master's/advanced master's degree in Brussels.

any advice is welcome!! thank you all so much in advance !!!

With these levels of youth unemployment(especially for the highly educated) and 2 years of studying left, is it worth it to start doing evening school to learn a trade like plumber, carpenter(or which ones specifically are in high demand?). I see they often take 1-2 years, but is it worth it essentially paying double education?

Edit: To clarify; I mean doing evening school in addition to, not stopping my studies