The Eerste Kamer, the upper chamber of the Dutch parliament, has voted to defeat the bill introduced by the government to make changes to Dutch nationality law. The standard period of legal residence in the Netherlands required for an immigrant to become a Dutch...
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Council of State rejects government challenge to partners’ permission to work
In August 2016, the district court of Amsterdam handed down a decision ordering the IND (the Dutch immigration authority) to issue a new residence permit card to a non-EU citizen that expressly notes that she is allowed to work in self-employment; she lives in the...
Inburgering: Municipality failed to take personal circumstances into account
In the case of P. and S., the Court of Justice of the European Union already issued a decision on 4 June 2015 on the questions referred to it by the Central Appeals Tribunal (Centrale Raad van Beroep, CRvB) of the Netherlands, specifically whether non-EU citizens...
[OUT OF DATE] Partners of entrepreneurs are now also allowed to work
(12 July 2020: this post from 16 August 2016 is now only maintained as a historical archive post, because the Dutch government changed the law, as of 1 January 2020, to say that partners of entrepreneurs are now allowed to work wherever they like, including in...
Now that Brexit looks certain: consequences for Brits in the Netherlands?
Updated on 1 August 2016 CET to reflect new insights Ever since prime minister David Cameron announced that the UK would hold a referendum on whether to leave or stay in the European Union on 23 June 2016, we at Franssen Advocaten have been getting questions from...
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