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Hi again.

These are individual matters; each individual application must qualify in their own right.

Hope this helps.

Cynic
Expat team

Hi Cynic,

Thanks a lot for your response!

I was reading IND website, the citizenship condition says uninterrupted legal stay of 5 years in Netherlands. So I am assuming that in these 5 years, for some period my spouse can be the work visa holder while I can be on dependent visa.

For some period, I can be the main work visa holder while my spouse can be on my dependent visa. With such a scenario, both of us and our children will have 5 years of uninterrupted stay in Netherlands.

The condition is to live in the country for 5 uninterrupted years and not having a continuous job for five years. Pls clear my understanding. Thanks in advance!

Hi again.

Para 1 - no, if he is on the skilled migrant visa and you are on the family visa with your children, then that is the status of your resident permit and any linked application for permanent residence/citizenship further down the road.聽 You can change that, but then you'd have to notify IND of the change in circumstances and then re-apply, then your 5-year residence clock would re-start.

Para 2 & 3.聽 I think you're reading to much into this.聽 The qualification to apply for permanent residence is that your family must be registered and living at your address in the Netherlands, further, during the qualifying period, that your husband is in employment and paying both income and social taxes in the Netherlands and maintaining your Health Insurance payments; your children must attend school.聽 In that background, you can leave the country for family holidays, business trips.聽 Put simply, you all have to live in the Netherlands long enough in each calendar year to maintain your residence (more than 6 months).聽 You can't keep moving to other countries leaving 1 of you behind (well you can, but the one who goes will lose his/her qualification period and if it's your husband, his 30% tax benefit as well).

If citizenship is your goal here, you should be aware that the Dutch do not like dual nationality and will probably require you to revoke any other citizenships; there are a couple of exceptions (i.e. if your current citizenship is granted because of jus sanguinis, they can't make you surrender that because it's not in your power to do so); we're probably jumping too far ahead though.

Hope this helps.

Cynic
Expat Team