Registration for knowledge worker

1. your employer is a recognized sponsor. Recognition by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) means your employer is authorized to apply for a residence permit on your behalf.
2. you hold a residence permit with one of the following purposes of stay: 

• researcher under Directive (EU) 2016/801
• ‘orientation’ year student
• international startup
• self-employed entrepreneur
• intra corporate transferee under directive 2014/66/EU
• highly skilled migrant
• non-EU labor migrant with a work permit

If you can be registered as a knowledge worker, we can also register your accompanying partner and/or children. Please make a separate appointment for each family member.

• An original and valid passport
• Proof of accommodation:
• A rental or purchase agreement, or
• Written permission (including a copy of the passport or ID card of the main resident) if you will be staying with someone else
• A birth certificate if you were not born in the Netherlands
• Proof from the IND confirming your lawful residence in the Netherlands
• A relocation notice if you are moving from Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, or Saba

If any of the following events occurred during your stay abroad, you must provide the corresponding documentation:

• Marriage: marriage certificate
• Divorce: divorce certificate 
• Death of a partner or child: death certificate 
• Birth of a child: birth certificate and, if applicable, a certificate of acknowledgment

If the required documents are not in Dutch, English, German, or French, they must be translated by a sworn translator. Official documents from abroad must be legalized or have an apostille for use in the Netherlands whenever possible.

For more information on using foreign documents in the Netherlands, please visit the website: Legaliseren van buitenlandse documenten voor gebruik in Nederland | NederlandWereldwijd).