Residence permit highly skilled migrant

Conditions you must meet

• Meet the general requirements that apply to everyoneIND links a separate general-requirements page, which is not a registered source.

  You meet the general requirements that apply to everyone.

• Hold an employment contract with a Dutch employer or research institution

  You have an employment contract with an employer or research institution in the Netherlands.

• The employer must be an IND-recognised sponsor, listed in the public register

  This employer is a sponsor recognised by the IND. A recognised sponsor is listed in the public register of recognised sponsors.

• Meet the income requirementsNo figure recorded. IND links a separate income page that is not a registered source, and the highly skilled migrant salary thresholds change every January. Recalling a euro amount here would be a fabricated threshold.

  You meet the income requirements.

• The agreed salary must be in line with the market rate

  The agreed salary is in line with the market rate. In line with the market rate means that you earn the same as what people in the same job earn on average.

• Healthcare professionals must be registered in the BIG registerOccupation-specific. VisaAI has an occupation fact but not one that maps to the BIG Act's article 3 and 36a lists, so no rule is attached rather than gate it wrongly.

  Are you going to work in individual healthcare? And do you practise a medical profession that is listed in Article 3 and Article 36a of the Individual Healthcare Professions Act (BIG Act)? If so, you must be registered in the BIG register.

• Foreign documents must be legalised and translated into Dutch, English, French or German

  Have foreign documents legalised and translated into Dutch, English, French or German.

• Your employer holds the list of documents you needIND publishes no applicant-facing document list for this route; the recognised sponsor holds it. This is a FACT ABOUT THE PROCESS, not a document the applicant obtains, so it must not appear as a checklist row — see the note in 20260821490000.

  Your employer has a list of documents that you need.

• If you are already in the Netherlands, your employer must apply within 3 months of your arrival

  Then your employer must do this within 3 months after you have travelled to the Netherlands.

• Transferees from a company outside the EU are intra corporate transferees, with different requirementsRecorded so someone on a transfer is not led through the wrong route. IND treats it as a separate permit.

  Do you have an employment contract with a company located outside the EU? And are you going to be transferred as a manager, specialist or trainee? Then you are an intra corporate transferee and other requirements apply to you.

Steps in the process

• Only an employer recognised by the IND can apply for your permitStructural, as with the student permit: the applicant cannot lodge this themselves.

  Only an employer recognised by the IND can apply for your permit.

• Your employer applies for the mvv and the residence permit at the same time

  Your employer applies for the MVV and the residence permit at the same time.

Government fees

• Application feeEUR 423Paid by the employer by direct debit, not by the applicant.

  The application costs € 423,00. For all fees and exceptions visit our web page Fees: costs of an application. Your employer pays automatically by direct debit.

Also stated by the authority

Not requirements in themselves. These are alternatives, exemptions, rights and warnings the authority publishes alongside the requirements — quoted here because they can change what applies to you.

• The IND decides within 90 daysA service commitment rather than an applicant obligation, and IND states it may be extended. Note this is 90 days, against 60 for the student permit.

  The IND must take a decision within 90 days. This is called the decision period. We can extend the decision period if it takes longer to decide.