<p>While it may be slightly early to be thinking about this, I am confused about how UK and other EU unis would think of me: as an international student or EU national? My story is that I was born in Romania and my parents and I moved to the US when I was 4 years old and now have dual citizenship. My question is mainly concerning the international student vs home/EU nationals fees at UK unis because from what I understand, you/your parents have to have been taxpayers in the UK/EU for at least 3 years to qualify for the home student fees... and since Romania only just joined the EU recently, how does that factor the 3 year thing?<br>
Sorry for how disjointed this all sounds, any help is very much appreciated! (:</p>
<p>If you currently live in the US and have been living there for the last 3 years (and your parents paying taxes there) you are an international student and will have to pay international fees.</p>
<p>Nationality is irrelevant.</p>
<p>As far as I understand it if your parents have been living and working in any EU country, and paying taxes there for the last 3 years, you are a home student. Romania joined the EU 1st Jan 2007 according to Google. So paying taxes in Romania for the last 3 years will count.</p>
<p>In general, it is very hard to get round the international fees thing. They try to make as many students internationals as possible. If you are currently living in the US, you’ve got no chance even if you have citizenship of 20 different EU countries.</p>
<p>You will not pay EU fees, since you’ve been living in the US, as cupcake says. </p>
<p>The only real benefit you’ll get from your Romanian citizenship is that you won’t have to get a student visa to study in the UK, you’ll just be able to walk right in.</p>