Residence permit for partner
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | verblijfsvergunning verblijf bij partner as of 2026-07-24[5] From the IND's Dutch page title as linked from the English page ('Verblijfsvergunning voor partner aanvragen'). |
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| Official name (English) | Residence permit for partner as of 2026-07-24[5] |
| Legal basis | Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000 arts. 3.13 and 3.14, first paragraph under a and b as of 2026-08-11[5][8] Closed by a shell-side slice of the consolidated Vb 2000 text (Concern 8, ops brief 3): art. 3.13 grants the permit to the art. 3.14 family member of the art. 3.15 principal, subject to the arts. 3.16-3.22a conditions; art. 3.14 first paragraph under a covers a spouse or registered partner, under b an unmarried durable partner – both limbs conditioned on being 21 or older (see min_age below). |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-07-24[5] Type I temporary regular residence permit. |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | Not established from a qualifying source[5] |
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| Minimum age | 21 as of 2026-08-11[5][8] |
| Criminal-record condition | Yes as of 2026-07-24[3][5] Public order and national security. Everyone over 12 submits a completed Appendix Antecedents Certificate (form 7601). The general conditions page adds a valid travel document and a TB test after arrival, with the partner-specific exemptions the IND lists: an existing valid Dutch permit being changed, birth and lifelong residence in the Netherlands, a TB test taken in the Netherlands in the last 6 months, and long-term EU residence held by either the partner or the sponsor. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | 5 years as of 2026-07-24[5] |
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| How the initial term is set | matches the sponsor's permit |
| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-07-24[5] Extension can be applied for online with DigiD, or on forms B07001E / B07002E. |
| Renewal duration | Not established from a qualifying source Not stated. |
| Work rights | Recorded at the source, but not reducible to a single value |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Yes as of 2026-07-24[5][6] Five years on a family-member permit opens the permanent residence permit. The IND separately routes a partner wanting an independent status – after a broken relationship, domestic or honour-related violence, or abandonment – to the humanitarian non-temporary permit. |
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Requirements
| Who can sponsor | citizen, permanent resident, temporary permit holder as of 2026-07-24[5] |
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| Eligible relations | spouse, registered partner, unmarried partner as of 2026-07-24[5] The IND runs one route for all three with separate application forms for married or registered partners (B07001E) and for unmarried partners (B07002E). Minor children are a separate route, recorded as nl-family-minor-child. |
| Sponsor income requirement | 1 × IND required amount for a married, registered or cohabiting couple, gross SV salary per month including holiday allowance per month as of 2026-07-13[7][9] EUR 2,523.96 gross SV salary per month with holiday allowance, EUR 2,337.00 without, valid 1 July to 31 December 2026, published by the IND specifically as the required amount for a residence permit to stay with a partner and tied by Vb 2000 art. 3.74 to the statutory minimum wage including holiday allowance. The IND applies the previous three years' figures when testing whether income is sustainable, for instance where monthly income varies or the contract has under 6 months to run at the application date. |
| Sponsor accommodation requirement | Not established from a qualifying source[5] Not established; the condition, if any, sits in the collapsed requirements block. |
| Sponsor waiting period | 1 year as of 2026-07-24[5] |
| Pre-entry language test | Yes as of 2026-07-24[5] |
Process
| Where to apply from | either as of 2026-07-24[5] The sponsor normally applies from the Netherlands under the TEV procedure, with an MVV collected abroad; the partner may also apply in person (forms 9511 / 7525), and a dedicated online form exists for changing an existing permit's purpose to residence with a partner. |
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| Statutory processing time | 90 days as of 2026-07-24[1][5] Ninety days, stated twice: on the IND's decision-periods page for regular temporary permits, and in the IND's own explainer video transcript on the partner page ('the decision period, which is 90 days'). The IND says it sometimes needs the full period and can extend it where further information is requested. |
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Physical presence
| maximum consecutive absence | 6 months · to keep the permit as of 2026-07-20[4] Country-wide main-residence rule for regular residence permits: more than 6 continuous months outside the Netherlands (counted per calendar year, separate periods not added together) may be treated as moving main residence, which can cost the permit. |
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| maximum consecutive absence | 4 months · to keep the permit as of 2026-07-20[4] |
Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Not established from a qualifying source[5] |
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| Eligible relations | Not established from a qualifying source Not established – see 'allowed'. |
| Family members' work rights | Not established from a qualifying source Not established – see 'allowed'. |
Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 9 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 9 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2026-06-12 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-11 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-11 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Decision periods – statutory decision periods per application type
Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND), Ministry of Justice and Security · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2026-07-06 · Accessed 2026-08-09 · Archived copy - [2] Fees: costs of an application (leges)
Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND), Ministry of Justice and Security · fee schedule · Tier 1 · Published 2026-06-12 · Accessed 2026-08-09 · Archived copy - [3] Requirements that apply to everyone – general conditions for every regular residence permit
Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND) · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2026-03-20 · Accessed 2026-08-09 - [4] Main residency – when the IND considers main residence moved abroad
Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND), Ministry of Justice and Security · official guidance · Tier 1 · Published 2026-07-20 · Accessed 2026-08-09 · Archived copy - [5] Residence permit for partner – conditions, sponsor rules and permit terms
Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND) · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2026-07-24 · Accessed 2026-08-09 - [6] Permanent residence permit – conditions
Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND), Ministry of Justice and Security · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2026-05-20 · Accessed 2026-08-09 · Archived copy - [7] Required amounts income requirements (normbedragen)
Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND), Ministry of Justice and Security · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2026-07-13 · Accessed 2026-08-09 · Archived copy - [8] Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000, artikelen 3.13 and 3.14 (familie- of gezinslid; wie geldt als gezinslid; consolidated text)
Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties / overheid.nl (wetten.overheid.nl) · statute · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-11 - [9] Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000, artikel 3.74 (voldoende middelen van bestaan; consolidated text)
Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties / overheid.nl (wetten.overheid.nl) · statute · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-09