Aruba

For a specialist unavailable locally who is seconded or contracted for a defined Aruba project and paid abroad.

For a foreign company director whose Aruba corporate role and required commercial authorisations have been approved.

For a scarce technical or scientific specialist employed for more than six months by a recognised company or scientific organisation.

For a live-in domestic employee sponsored by a qualifying household that meets the income and accommodation requirements.

For a domestic employee who lives outside the sponsoring household and whose sponsor meets the higher income threshold.

For a person in an officially designated professional role or a role accepted case by case with the Labour Department.

For an employee designated as a trusted person by a company that has invested at least AWG 1 million in Aruba.

For a qualifying CEO, CFO, trusted person or licensed director with at least AWG 150,000 invested in an Aruba enterprise.

For a foreign shareholder owning at least 40 percent of an Aruba company with at least AWG 50,000 qualifying capital.

For a founder establishing an innovative, scalable Aruba enterprise accepted as supporting new economic pillars or the knowledge economy.

For a foreign sole proprietor or independent professional authorised to establish and operate an Aruba business.

For an adult entertainer engaged by a qualifying venue under the special short-stay rules.

For a student undertaking an exchange-study programme in Aruba.

For an adult following a full-time programme at an educational institution recognised by Aruba's education authority.

For a student or trainee undertaking a time-limited practical placement in Aruba.

For a spouse who has been married to and living with a qualifying protected-status person for at least five years and has five years of Aruba admission and principal residence, plus qualifying minor children.

For a former minor dependant whose physical or mental disability prevents independent living.

For a former minor dependant aged 18 to under 27 who remains in full-time education under the same parent or guardian's guarantee.

For specified former spouses, parents or children with a strong personal and family connection to Aruba.

For an unmarried durable partner of an Aruba-born Dutch national or knowledge migrant after a relationship of at least three years.

For a child under 18 who belongs to the household and is under the lawful authority of a legal resident of Aruba.

For a spouse or registered partner joining a principal residence-permit holder in Aruba.

For a pensioner with at least AWG 50,000 in guaranteed annual pension or equivalent long-term investment yield.

For an applicant with an average bank balance or qualifying property or investment resources of at least AWG 100,000 per year.

— No eligibility summary published for this route yet

For a former Aruba or pre-1986 Netherlands Antilles government employee receiving a pension, or the non-remarried widow of such a person.

For a person whose existing Aruba residence status is preserved or regularised under LTU transitional provisions II to VII.

For an applicant placed in the official five-year flex category preceding permanent residence.

For an applicant with at least 120 calendar months of lawful residence and population-register residence in Aruba.

For a Dutch, US or EU national who has been admitted by law or permit in Aruba for more than five years.

For a temporary volunteer placement with a non-profit organisation or NGO in Aruba.

For a visa-required or visa-exempt visitor to Aruba, with the individual stay period stated on admission and an island maximum of 180 consecutive days in a 365-day period.

For a person qualifying under article 19 of the Admission Decree, the route formerly labelled asylum.

For an exceptional applicant with compelling humanitarian grounds or an unusually strong long-established bond with Aruba.

For a non-Dutch person born in Aruba who has reached age ten and has been admitted in Aruba continuously since birth.

For an Aruba-connected Dutch national who falls outside the admission requirement through birth, naturalisation, parentage or long residence.

For a foreign athlete engaged by a recognised and registered Aruba sports organisation.

For a foreign sports coach or trainer engaged by a recognised and registered Aruba sports organisation.

For a person who enters Aruba government service and receives non-temporary admission by law.

For specified government, international-organisation, consular or foreign military personnel officially stationed in Aruba.