Fees: costs of an application

Looking for the costs (fees) of your application? Find your application and see how much you have to pay. Please also read the Additional information on costs.

• Costs visa
• Costs residence permit
• Costs for an application to become a Dutch citizen
• Costs recognition as sponsor
• Costs statelessness document
• Additional information on costs

Costs visa

Visa short stay (up to 90 days)

Transit visa

Travel list

Return visa

Costs residence permit

Family

Stay with a family member, including partner (married or unmarried)​​

Child under 18 with a (adoption/foster) parent, including a child born in the Netherlands

Stay with minor Dutch child (Chavez)

Stay with a family member with the status long-term resident EU​/Holder status long-term resident EU in another EU member state

​Stay with a Turkish family member under the Association Agreement EG-Turkey (see Additional information)

Stay with a family member with an appeal to article 8 EHRM (also in case of family member of refugee)

Stay as a family member of (non-)privileged NATO personnel, personnel of Joint Force Command Headquarters (JFCHQ), personnel of Taiwan Representative Office Netherlands​

Work

​​Intra Corporate Transferees

Highly skilled migrant

Work as holder of a European blue card​

Researcher under Directive (EU) 2016/801

Looking for a job after study, promotion or scientific research (orientation year)

Work in employment (including spending leave after work on board a Dutch seagoing vessel or mining installation)

Work experience as a trainee or apprentice

Work experience as a trainee or apprentice: Young Workers Exchange Program (YWEP)​

Cross-border service provider​

Seasonal labour​

Work in connection with the ICC Libanon

Work as (non-)privileged NATO personnel/Personnel JFCHQ

Work as a self-employed person

Start-up​

Essential start-up personnel​​

Association Agreement EC-Turkey (applies to all the purposes under Work) ​

Study​

Study (all education levels)

​Looking for a job after study, promotion or scientific research (orientation year)

Exchange​

Au pair/Exchange programme

Working Holiday (WHS/WHP)

​Foreign investor

Stay as economically non-active EU long-term resident

Stay on humanitarian temporary purposes

• victims of and collaborateurs in a criminal process concerning trafficking in human beings;
• victims of honour-related violence and domestic violence without right of residence;
• unaccompanied minors who cannot leave due to no fault of their own;
• children with a child protection measure; and,
• children temporary placed in a foster home or institution (The Hague Child Protection Convention).

Medical treatment

​Medical treatment after 1 year of suspension of departures (section 64 of the Aliens Act)​

Unable to leave the Netherlands to no fault of your own

Re-entry

Residence pending an application for determination of Dutch citizenship

Re-entry before remigration to country of origin

Re-entry article 8 Remigration law

Continued residence

Continued residence after stay with a family member including after domestic or honour related violence, broken relationship, and abandonment​

Continued residence after stay as a victim of or witness reporting human trafficking or as a victim of domestic or honour related violence

Children with long-term residence and their family members

Residence permit humanitarian non-temporary

Humanitarian non-temporary, child protection measure under supervision after a residence permit for temporary humanitarian grounds with a child protection measure

Humanitarian non-temporary when parental custody ends

Humanitarian non-temporary when the death of a family member (of full age) ends the relationship

Humanitarian non-temporary when the death of a family member (child under 18) ends the relationship

Permanent residence permit​/Long-term EU residency

Asylum ​residence permits

Temporary asylum residence permit

Permanent asylum residence permit/permit long term residence EU

EU/EEA citizens, Swiss and their family members​

Verification against EU community law

Permanent residence EU

Brexit (Withdrawal Agreement)​

Replacement of residence permit ​in case of theft/loss/damaged document of change of details on document

Costs for an application to become a Dutch citizen

Naturalisation

Option

Costs recognition as sponsor

Recognition as sponsor

Costs statelessness document

Statelessness document (S-document)

Additional information on costs

San Marino and Israel

Based on the Benelux Treaty, citizens of San Marino and Israel do not pay for the application for a provisional residence permit (MVV). Therefore, they do not have to pay for the TEV-procedure (joint application for mvv and residence permit).

Association agreement EC-Turkey

Turkish nationals pay a lower rate for applications for the following residence permits:

• Work on a self-employed basis
• Paid employment
• Work experience
• Seasonal work
• Research under Directive (EU) 2016/801
• Highly skilled migrant
• European blue card
• Looking for a job after study, promotion or scientific research
• Au pair
• Residence as a family member of a Turkish citizen (also if you do not have Turkish nationality yourself). Family members are the spouse or registered partner, (grand)child or (grand)parent. The low rate does not apply if the Turkish citizen has a residence permit for study, medical treatment or for spending leave in the Netherlands. Nor if the family member and the Turkish citizen are unmarried and do not have a registered partnership.

The low rates also apply if you have another nationality in addition to Turkish nationality, for example Dutch nationality. Are you applying to stay with a Turkish citizen in Netherlands and does this person also have Dutch nationality? With the application, please then also send a copy of a valid Turkish passport or ID card. State in an explanation that you are doing this in order to qualify for the low fee rate.

Long-term resident EU

A long-term resident EU is a person that has an EU residence permit for long-term residents in the Netherlands. Or a person that has this status in another EU Member State and that has a temporary residence permit in the Netherlands.

The fee mentioned under Permanent residence permit​/Long-term EU residency also applies to applications for family reunification or family formation in the Netherlands by a person that has this status or a family member. Or when this person applies for residence with a person that has the status long-term resident EU.

8 EVRM

Are you applying for a provisional residence permit (MVV) or residence permit for family reunification or family formation and do you want an exemption from the costs on the basis of Article 8 ECHR? Then you must submit the following documents with the application:

• A T-2 personal income statement issued by the Legal Aid Council (Raad voor Rechtsbijstand). This income statement must state that the principal person has had no income and no assets in the year in question.
• Means of evidence showing that you and/or the sponsor cannot obtain sufficient funds in the short term to pay the costs for the application. You must also make it plausible that you and the sponsor cannot receive financial support from family members or other persons or organisations. You can, for example, show evidence of applications for loans that have been requested from family, friends, acquaintances and banks, but which have not been granted.

(Required amounts as of 1 January 2022)