All you need to do is register a Microsoft account on the Visual Studio community site I believe and then you are covered.
Be aware though, we were advised that if you work for a company that employs more that 250 staff then you would have to purchase a full subscription for visual studio before you can use the developer edition of SQL Server.
We have found that since MS changed the licensing terms for this purchasing Std Edition licences for our development server has worked out cheaper than VS subscriptions for all the admins/developers that need access.