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  "title": "How to apply for Dutch nationality in NL",
  "short_title": "apply for Dutch nationality",
  "summary": "Apply for Dutch citizenship by naturalisation at your municipality: which residence term applies to you, the A2 civic integration and good conduct conditions, renouncing your nationality, and when to use the option procedure instead.",
  "themes": [
    "Residence",
    "Family"
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "dutch nationality application",
    "naturalisatie",
    "naturalisation netherlands",
    "optieprocedure",
    "afstandsverplichting",
    "verklaring van verbondenheid",
    "inburgeringsdiploma naturalisatie",
    "naturalisatieceremonie",
    "dutch citizenship cost",
    "dual nationality netherlands"
  ],
  "audience": "Long-term residents of the Netherlands who are considering Dutch citizenship",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-09-01",
  "estimated_time": "Several weeks to assemble documents and get a municipal appointment, then a statutory decision period of 12 months which the IND can extend, followed by a ceremony that must happen within 1 year of a positive decision",
  "intro": "Becoming a Dutch national by naturalisation is decided by the IND, but you submit the application in person at your municipality (gemeente), which checks your documents and forwards a file with its advice. The conditions cover your residence history, civic integration, conduct and, for many people, giving up your current nationality. A separate and much cheaper route, the option procedure (optieprocedure), exists for specific groups defined in law, so check that first.",
  "before_you_start": "You must be 18 or older to apply for yourself, and you need valid documents proving your identity and your nationality. You also need permitted residence at the moment you apply, throughout the procedure and at the ceremony, so a permit that expires mid-procedure has to be extended. The residence term is not the same for everyone: the standard is 5 consecutive years in the Kingdom of the Netherlands with a valid residence permit, but partners of Dutch nationals, stateless people, former Dutch nationals and people with a long earlier residence history fall under shorter terms or none at all. If you belong to one of the groups named in the option procedure, that route is faster and costs far less, and applying for naturalisation instead would waste money.",
  "timing": "You pay at the municipality when you submit, and the 12-month statutory decision period starts once the fee is paid. The IND states it can extend that period if the decision takes longer. After a positive decision the case goes to the King for a Royal Decree, and you must then attend the naturalisation ceremony within 1 year. The option procedure is far shorter: the municipality decides within 13 weeks, extendable once by a maximum of 13 weeks.",
  "authorities": [
    "ind"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authority_id": "ind",
      "organisation": "IND",
      "url": "https://ind.nl/en/dutch-citizenship/becoming-a-dutch-national-through-naturalisation",
      "label": "Becoming a Dutch national through naturalisation"
    },
    {
      "authority_id": "ind",
      "organisation": "IND",
      "url": "https://ind.nl/en/exceptions-to-the-5-year-term-for-naturalisation-in-the-netherlands",
      "label": "Exceptions to the 5-year term for naturalisation"
    },
    {
      "authority_id": "ind",
      "organisation": "IND",
      "url": "https://ind.nl/en/fees-costs-of-an-application",
      "label": "Fees: costs of an application"
    },
    {
      "authority_id": "ind",
      "organisation": "IND",
      "url": "https://ind.nl/en/renouncing-your-nationality",
      "label": "Renouncing your nationality"
    },
    {
      "authority_id": "ind",
      "organisation": "IND",
      "url": "https://ind.nl/en/public-order-policy-naturalisation-and-option",
      "label": "Public order policy for naturalisation and option"
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "number": 1,
      "id": "step-1",
      "anchor": "#step-1",
      "url": "https://howtoin.nl/apply-for-dutch-nationality#step-1",
      "title": "Work out which residence term applies to you",
      "description": "The standard condition is 5 consecutive years in the Kingdom of the Netherlands with a valid residence permit, but the IND publishes a set of exceptions. Three years applies to spouses, registered partners and unmarried cohabiting partners of a Dutch national after 3 consecutive years together, and to stateless people registered as stateless in the Personal Records Database (BRP). Two years applies if you have 2 continuous years now and had already accumulated 10 years or more in the Kingdom. No residence term in the Kingdom applies to former Dutch nationals, adults adopted in the Kingdom where at least one adoptive parent held Dutch nationality at the time, Moluccans under the 1976 Act, and partners of a Dutch national who have lived together for 3 years wherever that was.",
      "action": "Read the IND exceptions page and identify which term your situation falls under before you count your years.",
      "warning": "Common mistake: counting five years when a shorter term applies. Applying on the standard term when you qualify on the 3-year or 2-year term delays your citizenship for no reason.",
      "source": {
        "authority_id": "ind",
        "organisation": "IND",
        "url": "https://ind.nl/en/exceptions-to-the-5-year-term-for-naturalisation-in-the-netherlands",
        "label": "Exceptions to the 5-year term for naturalisation"
      }
    },
    {
      "number": 2,
      "id": "step-2",
      "anchor": "#step-2",
      "url": "https://howtoin.nl/apply-for-dutch-nationality#step-2",
      "title": "Check whether the option procedure applies to you instead",
      "description": "The option procedure (optieprocedure) is a separate legal route for specific groups: people born in the Kingdom of the Netherlands who have always lived in the Kingdom, people born stateless in the Kingdom, minors acknowledged by a Dutch national or under the joint authority of a Dutch and a non-Dutch parent, adults who have lived in the Kingdom since the day they turned 4 with valid residence throughout, people with at least 15 consecutive years of valid residence who are either married to a Dutch national for at least 3 years or are now 65 or older, people born to a Dutch mother before 1 January 1985 whose father was not Dutch at the time, and several categories of former Dutch nationals. It is decided by the municipality within 13 weeks, extendable once by a maximum of 13 weeks. The IND does not list a civic integration examination requirement for the option route. Renunciation of your current nationality is only required in the option route if you have lived in the Kingdom since the day you turned 4.",
      "action": "Compare your situation against the groups listed on the IND option page and use that route instead if you fit one of them.",
      "cost": {
        "text": "Costs vary by route: an option statement is €241 for 1 person against €1139 for naturalisation (2026)."
      },
      "timing": "13 weeks for a municipal decision, extendable once by a maximum of 13 weeks",
      "warning": "Common mistake: paying the naturalisation fee when you were eligible for an option statement, which costs €241 against €1139 (2026). The IND does not move an application from one route to the other for you.",
      "source": {
        "authority_id": "ind",
        "organisation": "IND",
        "url": "https://ind.nl/en/dutch-citizenship/becoming-a-dutch-national-through-option",
        "label": "Becoming a Dutch national through option"
      }
    },
    {
      "number": 3,
      "id": "step-3",
      "anchor": "#step-3",
      "url": "https://howtoin.nl/apply-for-dutch-nationality#step-3",
      "title": "Check the good conduct condition before you spend anything",
      "description": "You cannot become a Dutch national by naturalisation or option if you are a danger to public order or national security. The IND counts convictions in the 5-year period before you applied, and also convictions that come after you applied but before the decision. The following block the application: a custodial sentence or a placement under a hospital order (TBS); community service of 36 hours or more; several community service orders of 18 hours or more each totalling 54 hours or more; a fine, transaction or penalty order of €900 or more; a measure against financial advantage of €900 or more; several penalty orders, transactions, fines or measures of €450 or more each totalling €1350 or more; and a driving ban of 2 months or more. A single fine, transaction, penalty order or measure of less than €900, or community service of less than 36 hours, is not disqualifying on its own, but penalties of €450 or more still count towards the €1350 total. Once a sentence is completed a rehabilitation period of 5 years without a further conviction applies, and there is no rehabilitation route for crimes under Article 1F of the Refugee Convention. A polygamous marriage is also a bar.",
      "action": "Review every conviction, fine and penalty order from the past 5 years against the IND public order thresholds before you book a municipal appointment.",
      "warning": "Common mistake: dismissing several old penalty orders as trivial because each one was small. Penalties of €450 or more each that add up to €1350 or more are disqualifying together, and the fee is charged for handling the application whatever the outcome.",
      "source": {
        "authority_id": "ind",
        "organisation": "IND",
        "url": "https://ind.nl/en/public-order-policy-naturalisation-and-option",
        "label": "Public order policy for naturalisation and option"
      }
    },
    {
      "number": 4,
      "id": "step-4",
      "anchor": "#step-4",
      "url": "https://howtoin.nl/apply-for-dutch-nationality#step-4",
      "title": "Pass the civic integration examination at A2, or confirm your exemption",
      "description": "The IND naturalisation page states you must have passed the civic integration examination (inburgeringsexamen) at language level A2 or higher and hold the resulting diploma, unless you are exempt. The exemption grounds are set out on a separate IND civic integration page, which lists: already holding a civic integration diploma or the certificate under the Civic Integration Act 2021, holding Belgian or Luxembourg nationality, being under 18 or of statutory pensionable age or older, having lived in the Netherlands for 8 years or more during your school age, holding a document exemption, being unable to sit the examination on medical grounds, being able to prove you are sufficiently integrated, and particular individual circumstances that prevent you from passing. Being an EU or EEA national does not by itself exempt you.",
      "action": "Book and pass the civic integration examination at A2, or obtain written confirmation of the exemption ground you rely on.",
      "documents": [
        "Civic integration diploma (inburgeringsdiploma) or exemption document",
        "Diplomas or school records if you are claiming an exemption based on Dutch education"
      ],
      "cost": {
        "text": "Examination fees vary and are set by the examination body, not the IND, so they are not part of the naturalisation fee."
      },
      "warning": "Common mistake: assuming a Dutch degree or an EU passport removes the requirement. The exemption grounds are specific, and the municipality will not accept the application without the diploma or a valid exemption document.",
      "source": {
        "authority_id": "ind",
        "organisation": "IND",
        "url": "https://ind.nl/en/living-in-the-netherlands-with-a-residence-permit/civic-integration-for-more-secure-residence-permit",
        "label": "Civic integration for a more secure residence permit and naturalisation"
      }
    },
    {
      "number": 5,
      "id": "step-5",
      "anchor": "#step-5",
      "url": "https://howtoin.nl/apply-for-dutch-nationality#step-5",
      "title": "Establish whether you must give up your current nationality",
      "description": "As a rule, an applicant of 18 or over must renounce their current nationality (afstandsverplichting) on naturalisation, but the exempt categories are numerous. The IND names: being married to or the registered partner of a Dutch national on the date the Royal Decree is signed; holding an asylum residence permit; holding a residence permit granted under the 2007 to 2008 Legacy Regulation (RANOV), with specific conditions; being born in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, meaning the Netherlands, Aruba, Curacao, Sint Maarten or the special municipalities, and living there now; and holding the nationality of a country the Netherlands does not recognise, such as Taiwan or the Palestinian Territories. Minors who naturalise with a parent do not have to renounce, and an exemption can be requested where renunciation would cause demonstrable hardship, for example a substantial fee, loss of inheritance rights or a military service obligation.",
      "action": "Check your situation against the IND list of exemptions and, if none applies, find out what your own country requires to release you from its nationality.",
      "documents": [
        "Marriage or registered partnership certificate, if you rely on the partner exemption",
        "Your asylum or RANOV residence permit, if you rely on that exemption",
        "Evidence supporting a hardship request, if you are asking to be excused"
      ],
      "cost": {
        "text": "Any fee your own country charges to release you from its nationality varies and is set by that country, not by the IND."
      },
      "warning": "Common mistake: assuming the Netherlands forbids dual nationality outright. It does not: the exempt categories are wide, and people give up a nationality unnecessarily because they never checked the list.",
      "source": {
        "authority_id": "ind",
        "organisation": "IND",
        "url": "https://ind.nl/en/renouncing-your-nationality",
        "label": "Renouncing your nationality"
      }
    },
    {
      "number": 6,
      "id": "step-6",
      "anchor": "#step-6",
      "url": "https://howtoin.nl/apply-for-dutch-nationality#step-6",
      "title": "Submit the application and pay at your municipality",
      "description": "You apply in person at your municipality (gemeente), not directly to the IND. A municipal official goes through the conditions with you, checks that your documents are complete, fills in the application form with you, and has you sign the declarations confirming that you are willing to make the declaration of solidarity and, where it applies, to renounce your current nationality. The municipality collects the fee and sends your file with its advice to the IND. A partner applying at the same time and children under 18 can be included, at the fees set for those categories.",
      "action": "Book an appointment with your municipality and bring the full set of original documents plus payment.",
      "documents": [
        "Valid passport or travel document",
        "Birth certificate from your country of origin",
        "Valid residence permit or other proof of lawful residence",
        "Civic integration diploma or exemption document",
        "Marriage, partnership or cohabitation evidence where a partner-based term applies"
      ],
      "cost": {
        "text": "Fees vary by applicant type: €1139 for 1 person, €1454 together with a partner, €847 for a stateless person or asylum permit holder, €1163 for such an applicant together with a partner, €168 per co-applying child under 18, €0 for a Moluccan (2026)."
      },
      "timing": "The 12-month decision period starts once you have paid",
      "warning": "Common mistake: treating the fee as a deposit. You pay when you submit and the payment is what starts the decision clock, so confirm the IND's position on refunds before you pay, and do not submit while a condition such as public order or civic integration is unresolved.",
      "source": {
        "authority_id": "ind",
        "organisation": "IND",
        "url": "https://ind.nl/en/fees-costs-of-an-application",
        "label": "Fees: costs of an application"
      }
    },
    {
      "number": 7,
      "id": "step-7",
      "anchor": "#step-7",
      "url": "https://howtoin.nl/apply-for-dutch-nationality#step-7",
      "title": "Attend the ceremony and make the declaration of solidarity",
      "description": "The IND must decide within 12 months, and states that it can extend this period if the decision takes more time. A positive decision goes to the King, who signs a Royal Decree. You still are not Dutch at that point. You become a Dutch national only when you attend the naturalisation ceremony, held by your municipality, where you make the declaration of solidarity (verklaring van verbondenheid) and receive your proof of naturalisation. Attendance is compulsory for anyone who was 16 or older when the application was submitted. This is also the point at which citizenship differs from permanent residence: permanent residence keeps you a foreign national holding a Dutch residence permit, whereas Dutch nationality removes the need for a residence permit, gives you a Dutch passport or identity card, and lets you vote in Tweede Kamer and Provinciale Staten elections rather than only municipal ones.",
      "action": "Accept the ceremony invitation from your municipality and attend within 1 year of the positive decision.",
      "documents": [
        "The invitation from your municipality",
        "Valid proof of identity"
      ],
      "timing": "The IND decides within a 12-month period, which it can extend; the ceremony must take place within 1 year of a positive decision",
      "warning": "Common mistake: postponing the ceremony around travel or work. If you do not attend within 1 year of the positive decision you do not acquire Dutch nationality and you must submit and pay for a new application.",
      "source": {
        "authority_id": "ind",
        "organisation": "IND",
        "url": "https://ind.nl/en/dutch-citizenship/becoming-a-dutch-national-through-naturalisation",
        "label": "Becoming a Dutch national through naturalisation"
      }
    }
  ],
  "documents": [
    "A valid passport or other travel document",
    "A birth certificate from your country of origin, legalised or apostilled where required",
    "Your valid residence permit, or other proof of lawful residence",
    "Your civic integration diploma (inburgeringsdiploma) or proof of an exemption",
    "A marriage certificate, registered partnership certificate or evidence of cohabitation if you are applying on a partner-based term",
    "Proof of registration as stateless in the Personal Records Database (BRP), if that is the term you rely on",
    "Written consent from both parents or guardians for a child aged 12 or over who is co-applying"
  ],
  "costs": [
    {
      "text": "Naturalisation for 1 person: €1139 (2026)",
      "amount_eur": 1139
    },
    {
      "text": "Naturalisation together with a partner: €1454 (2026)",
      "amount_eur": 1454
    },
    {
      "text": "Naturalisation by a stateless person or the holder of an asylum residence permit: €847 for 1 person, €1163 together with a partner (2026)"
    },
    {
      "text": "A child under 18 becoming Dutch together with a parent: €168 (2026)",
      "amount_eur": 168
    },
    {
      "text": "Naturalisation by a Moluccan: €0 (2026)",
      "amount_eur": 0
    },
    {
      "text": "Option procedure, for comparison: €241 for 1 person, €412 together with a partner, €27 for a co-applying child under 18 (2026)"
    },
    {
      "text": "Civic integration examination fees, document legalisation and certified translations are separate and are not set by the IND"
    }
  ],
  "deadlines": [
    {
      "headline": "Attend the ceremony within 1 year of the positive decision",
      "detail": "A positive decision and a signed Royal Decree do not make you Dutch on their own. You only become a Dutch national once you attend the naturalisation ceremony and make the declaration of solidarity, and this must happen within 1 year of the positive decision. If you do not attend in time you do not get Dutch nationality and you have to submit and pay for a new application."
    }
  ],
  "warnings": [
    {
      "kind": "common_mistake",
      "text": "Assuming the five-year term is universal. It is the standard term, not the only one. Partners of Dutch nationals, stateless people registered as such in the BRP, former Dutch nationals and people with 10 or more earlier years in the Kingdom fall under 3 years, 2 years or no term at all, and applying later than you needed to costs you years."
    },
    {
      "kind": "common_mistake",
      "text": "Paying the naturalisation fee when you belong to a group covered by the option procedure. Option costs €241 for one person against €1139 for naturalisation (2026), the municipality decides within 13 weeks, and the IND sets no civic integration examination requirement for the option route at all."
    },
    {
      "kind": "common_mistake",
      "text": "Ignoring a modest criminal matter. The IND treats a fine, transaction or penalty order of €900 or more, several penalties of €450 or more each adding up to €1350 or more, community service of 36 hours or more, or a driving ban of 2 months or more as a public order problem, and a conviction counts if it falls in the 5 years before you applied or lands after you applied but before the decision."
    },
    {
      "kind": "common_mistake",
      "text": "Letting your residence permit lapse during the procedure. Your residence has to be permitted when you apply, throughout the procedure and at the ceremony, so an expiring permit must be extended even though you are already waiting on a nationality decision."
    },
    {
      "kind": "common_mistake",
      "text": "Assuming the terms in this guide are permanent. The residence terms sit in the Dutch Nationality Act and have been the subject of legislative proposals, so confirm the term that currently applies on the IND page before you count your years."
    },
    {
      "kind": "step_warning",
      "step": 1,
      "text": "Common mistake: counting five years when a shorter term applies. Applying on the standard term when you qualify on the 3-year or 2-year term delays your citizenship for no reason."
    },
    {
      "kind": "step_warning",
      "step": 2,
      "text": "Common mistake: paying the naturalisation fee when you were eligible for an option statement, which costs €241 against €1139 (2026). The IND does not move an application from one route to the other for you."
    },
    {
      "kind": "step_warning",
      "step": 3,
      "text": "Common mistake: dismissing several old penalty orders as trivial because each one was small. Penalties of €450 or more each that add up to €1350 or more are disqualifying together, and the fee is charged for handling the application whatever the outcome."
    },
    {
      "kind": "step_warning",
      "step": 4,
      "text": "Common mistake: assuming a Dutch degree or an EU passport removes the requirement. The exemption grounds are specific, and the municipality will not accept the application without the diploma or a valid exemption document."
    },
    {
      "kind": "step_warning",
      "step": 5,
      "text": "Common mistake: assuming the Netherlands forbids dual nationality outright. It does not: the exempt categories are wide, and people give up a nationality unnecessarily because they never checked the list."
    },
    {
      "kind": "step_warning",
      "step": 6,
      "text": "Common mistake: treating the fee as a deposit. You pay when you submit and the payment is what starts the decision clock, so confirm the IND's position on refunds before you pay, and do not submit while a condition such as public order or civic integration is unresolved."
    },
    {
      "kind": "step_warning",
      "step": 7,
      "text": "Common mistake: postponing the ceremony around travel or work. If you do not attend within 1 year of the positive decision you do not acquire Dutch nationality and you must submit and pay for a new application."
    }
  ],
  "conditions": {
    "title": "How long must you have lived here before you can apply?",
    "intro": "The residence term for naturalisation is not five years for everyone: the Dutch Nationality Act sets shorter terms, and in some situations no term at all, for specific groups.",
    "options": [
      {
        "label": "Standard term: 5 consecutive years",
        "detail": "The general condition is that you have lived in the Kingdom of the Netherlands for at least 5 consecutive years with a valid residence permit. Your residence must be permitted when you apply, while the IND decides and at the ceremony. This is the term that applies if none of the exceptions below fits your situation."
      },
      {
        "label": "3 years: partners of a Dutch national, and stateless people",
        "detail": "A 3-year term applies if you have been married to or the registered partner of a Dutch national for 3 consecutive years, or if you have lived together with a Dutch partner for 3 consecutive years while neither of you is married to anyone. It also applies if you are stateless and registered as stateless in the Personal Records Database (BRP), and to adults who were recognised or legitimised by a Dutch national, and to people whose co-naturalisation with a parent was refused because they had turned 18."
      },
      {
        "label": "2 years now, after 10 years in total",
        "detail": "If you currently have 2 continuous years of residence in the Kingdom with valid permits and you had already lived in the Kingdom for a total of 10 years or more with valid permits, you can apply on the 2-year term. This covers people who left the Netherlands for a period and then returned."
      },
      {
        "label": "No residence term in the Kingdom, including from abroad",
        "detail": "The IND lists situations in which no residence term in the Kingdom is required. That section is written for people who do not live in the Kingdom, and the IND adds that these grounds also apply if you do live here. They are: you are married to or the registered partner of a Dutch national and you have lived together for at least 3 years, wherever that was; you previously held Dutch nationality and lost it; you were adopted in the Kingdom as an adult and at least one adoptive parent held Dutch nationality at the time of the adoption; or you are Moluccan under the Act on the position of Moluccans of 9 September 1976, in which case the fee is nil. Being born in the Netherlands is not on this list. If you were born in the Kingdom and have always lived in the Kingdom, the option procedure is the route to check, and it is a different procedure."
      }
    ]
  },
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    "If you were required to renounce your former nationality, complete that step with the authorities of that country and send the IND the evidence they ask for.",
    "Ask the IND what to do with your residence document, since you no longer need a residence permit once you are a Dutch national.",
    "As a Dutch national you can vote in Tweede Kamer and Provinciale Staten elections, not only municipal ones. Your municipality publishes how polling cards (stempas) are issued for each election."
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