Moving abroad and living outside the Netherlands
Find out what you can arrange if you move abroad or if you already live 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
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)
Checklists
Voting
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
Checklists
State pension (AOW) and other pensions
Taxes
- Filling a tax return from outside the Netherlands
- Checklist – tax matters: what to arrange when moving abroad
Benefits for children
Benefits
- Surviving dependants’ benefit
- Long-term care (WLZ)
- Remigration benefit
- Receiving Dutch incapacity benefit
- Unemployment benefit (WW)
- Sickness benefit
Student finance and repaying student loans
- Student finance abroad
- Public transport allowance when studying abroad
- Repaying student loans from outside the Netherlands
Health and health insurance
Benefits for children
Health and health insurance
Life events
Working abroad
Studying and internships abroad
- Studying abroad with a Dutch qualification
- Legalising a Dutch diploma or certificate
- Student finance abroad
- Public transport allowance when studying abroad
- Studying and internships abroad
- Repaying student loans from outside the Netherlands
Checklists