Residence permit — cross-border service provider posted from EU/EEA/Switzerland

With a residence permit for a cross-border service provider an employee of a European company can work temporarily in the Netherlands.

Cross-border service provision means that an employee of a company will temporarily work at a company in another country. Both companies are established in a country of the EU, EEA or Switzerland.

You are a posted worker. It means your foreign employer temporarily lets you carry out an assignment for a client in the Netherlands.

You work for an employer outside the Netherlands but within the EU, EEA or Switzerland. You remain employed by your foreign employer.

Your foreign employer has registered you via the Dutch online notification portal on www.postedworkers.nl.

The IND recommends that your employer submits the application in the Netherlands.

You may also apply yourself at the Dutch embassy or consulate abroad.

You live in that country with a residence permit. And you have a work permit that allows you to work for your foreign employer. These permits remain valid during the entire period of the work in the Netherlands. You will work in the Netherlands at a client for 2 years at most.

You and your employer meet the requirements for posted workers.

With this residence permit you are only allowed to work for the client in the Netherlands. You do not need a work permit (in Dutch: tewerkstellingsvergunning or TWV) to work for the client.

The residence permit is valid for the period of the work in the Netherlands. The permit is valid for 2 years at most.

Will your residence permit expire soon? But your work is not yet finished? And you have not yet been in the Netherlands for 2 years? Then you can extend the residence permit.