Moving abroad and living outside the Netherlands

Passports and ID cards

• Applying for a passport or identity card abroad
• Applying for a Dutch nationality certificate abroad
• Applying for emergency documents
• More about passports and ID cards

Nationality

• Becoming a Dutch citizen
• Loss of Dutch nationality
• Regaining Dutch nationality

Driving licenses and motor vehicles

• Exporting a car with Dutch registration plate
• Is my driving licence valid abroad?
• Renewing driving licence abroad
• Suspending vehicle registration (information in Dutch)
• More about Dutch driving licence abroad

Voting

• Voting from abroad
• Register as a dutch voter abroad

Legalising documents

• Legalising Dutch documents for use abroad
• Legalising foreign documents for use in the Netherlands
• Getting a photocopy of your identity document legalised
• Legalising a Dutch diploma or certificate
• Having your signature legalised

Registering with the authorities

• Personal Records Database (BRP)
• Citizen service number (BSN)
• Non-residents Records Database (RNI)
• Register as a dutch voter abroad
• Deregister from a Dutch municipality

Documents

• Applying for Dutch civil status records from outside the Netherlands
• Converting foreign official documents into Dutch official documents
• Applying for consular declarations

Logging in

• DigiD abroad
• EU-approved login keys
• Using MijnOverheid outside the Netherlands

State pension (AOW) and other pensions

• AOW outside the Netherlands
• Receiving a Dutch pension

Taxes

• Filling a tax return from outside the Netherlands
• Checklist – tax matters: what to arrange when moving abroad

Benefits for children

• Child benefit
• Childcare benefit
• Supplementary child benefit

Benefits

• Surviving dependants’ benefit
• Remigration benefit
• Receiving Dutch incapacity benefit
• Unemployment benefit (WW)
• Sickness benefit

• Benefits outside the Netherlands for people who are unable to work due to sickness or disability

Student finance and repaying student loans

• Getting and repaying student finance

Health and health insurance

• Healthcare benefit outside the Netherlands
• Health insurance abroad

Benefits for children

• Child benefit
• Childcare benefit
• Supplementary child benefit

Health and health insurance

• Healthcare benefit outside the Netherlands
• Health insurance abroad

Life events

• Adopting a child from abroad
• Deaths abroad
• Divorcing abroad
• Marrying abroad
• Registering a birth abroad

Dutch education

• Dutch language and culture lessons outside the Netherlands

Working abroad

• Working abroad
• Working abroad with a Dutch qualification

Studying and internships abroad

• Studying abroad
• Internship abroad
• Studying abroad with a Dutch qualification
• Legalising a Dutch diploma or certificate
• Getting and repaying student finance

Checklists

• Checklist – studying abroad: what to arrange before you leave (information in Dutch)

Dutch education

• Dutch language and culture lessons outside the Netherlands

• Checklist – moving abroad
• Relocating to Aruba, Curaçao or St Maarten
• Relocating to Bonaire, St Eustatius or Saba