Paid employment: residence permit only
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | verblijfsvergunning arbeid in loondienst (alleen verblijfsvergunning) as of 2026-08-04[5] From the IND's Dutch page title as linked from the English page ('Arbeid in loondienst: alleen verblijfsvergunning'). |
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| Official name (English) | Paid employment: residence permit only as of 2026-08-04[5] |
| Legal basis | Not established from a qualifying source[5] |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-08-04[5] Type I temporary regular residence permit. |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | Not established from a qualifying source[5] Not stated on the IND page. |
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| Criminal-record condition | Yes as of 2026-03-20[3] Public-order and national-security condition applying to every regular residence permit. Everyone over 12 must submit a completed Appendix Antecedents Certificate (form 7601) declaring any offence or crime. The same page carries the two other universal conditions: a valid travel document, and a tuberculosis test after arrival unless exempt (nationals of listed countries, holders of an existing Dutch permit changing purpose, people born and always resident in the Netherlands, children of 11 or under, a TB test taken in the Netherlands in the last 6 months, and long-term EU residents and their family members). |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | up to 3 years as of 2026-08-04[5] |
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| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-08-04[5] |
| Renewal duration | Not established from a qualifying source Not stated separately. |
| Work rights | authorisation required as of 2026-08-04[5] |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Not established from a qualifying source[5] |
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Requirements
| Job offer required | Yes as of 2026-08-04[5] The route is a closed list of employment situations that cannot use the single permit: mass media correspondent; non-privileged military or civilian personnel; work under a Headquarters Agreement; work on a Dutch seagoing vessel or mining installation, plus leave, convalescence and job-search after such work; and people already free to work without a TWV. |
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| Salary threshold | |
| Labour-market test | Recorded at the source, but not reducible to a single value The residence permit itself carries no labour-market test; the separate TWV that the employer must usually obtain from the UWV does. The route is defined partly by the cases in which no TWV is needed at all – so the answer is neither true nor false for the permit as such, and depends on which of the listed situations applies. Recorded not_expressible rather than forced to a boolean. |
| Qualification requirement | Not established from a qualifying source[5] |
| Employer sponsorship | Yes as of 2026-08-04[5] The employer is the sponsor and must be registered in the Commercial Register of the Chamber of Commerce where the Handelsregisterwet 2007 requires it. |
| Paid in-country | Yes as of 2026-08-04[5] |
| Job-search route | No as of 2026-08-04[5] Job-search period on losing employment: 3 months, extended to a maximum of 6 months where the job was lost on or after 22 May 2026 and the permit has been held for 2 years or more, and for victims of labour exploitation. The search period can never run past the permit's own expiry, and runs from the day the contract ends. See country.recent_changes. |
Process
| Where to apply from | either as of 2026-08-04[2][5] The employer or the employee may apply; a change in purpose of stay is separately priced. |
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| Statutory processing time | 90 days as of 2026-07-06[1] Statutory decision period; extendable. |
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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 for this route. |
| Family members' work rights | Not established from a qualifying source Not established for this route. |
Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 7 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 7 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2026-03-20 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-04 |
| 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] Paid employment: residence permit only – conditions and permit terms
Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND) · official portal · Tier 1 · Published 2026-08-04 · Accessed 2026-08-09 - [6] 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 - [7] 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