1. What to do after finishing your studies
Immigration and Naturalisation Service Ministry of Security and Justice
Welkom!
What to do after finishing
your studies
Team Businesses – Services Department
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2. IND, the organization in charge of
admissions procedures in the Netherlands
A refugee who is not safe in his own country. A student who comes to acquire knowledge and personal skills. An engineer who comes to put his knowledge into practice in the Netherlands. And a family that is reunited after many years. What do they have in common? They are our clients; clients of the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND).
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3. A few questions to get to know you (but first a short promotion movie)
Have you tried to find a part-time job in the Netherlands?
Is anyone of you already working as a scientific researcher?
3) Would you like to stay in the Netherlands after you have graduated, promoted or completed your scientific research period?
4) For those who want to stay, what do you want to do after graduation, promotion or completion of the scientific research period: work, continue studying, other?
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4. Staying in the Netherlands after your studies
Wanted: more foreign top talent
Is the Netherlands the promised land for you to start a professional career?
Currently out of the international students’ willingness to stay after graduation only a small portion actually do so
Are Dutch, the height of the fees or a lack of jobs perhaps a barrier
for you?
Knowledge and talent is in high demand in the Netherlands to strenghten our competitive position and knowledge-based economy
What is your value in the Dutch job market after finishing your studies and do you have a professional network?
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5. My residence permit expires. What may happen next?
Looking for work and carrying out work whether or not as an employee (= Orientation year for highly educated persons or Search year)
Continuing your Bachelor/Master programme in the Netherlands
Continuing with a PhD position after you earned a Master’s degree
4) Working as a highly skilled migrant or scientific researcher*
5) Working as a regular labour migrant
Working on a self-employed basis (including start-ups)
Returning to your country of origin or elsewhere
Note: Including PhD students and guest researchers
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6. Search year highly educated persons
Wich groups may apply the search year highly educated persons?
Bachelor (HBO) en Master (WO) students graduated from a Dutch higher educational institution (accredited courses);
PhD graduates of a Dutch University (Doctor's degree);
Has completed a postgraduate course in the Netherlands;
Has completed scientific research (under the directive 2005/71/EC or labor as highly skilled migrant);
Has completed training in the framework of specific cultural policy, development cooperation policy or an Erasmus Mundus Masters Course;
Has completed Master's degree or postgraduate training abroad or is promoted to a foreign top 200-University;
Starting entrepreneurs (start-ups) with a residence permit as a self-employed person who are not advancing in the self-employed scheme and satisfying the search year conditions.
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7. Advantages Search year for highly educated persons
For all high-skilled migrants applies that graduation, or completion of the scientific research may have taken place up to three years prior to the application. The aim is to find a job as a highly skilled migrant.
The search year permit can be requested several times.
As a holder of a residence permit ‘Orientation year for highly educated persons’ you are allowed to work without any restrictions and without a work permit.
Note The search year may not be granted again if the non-EU national has been granted a search year permit earlier on the basis of the same training or research (at unaltered conditions). In conclusion, after any other study or any other research a new search year may be granted again.
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8. Conditions & Characteristics Search Year Highly Educated Persons
All groups are allowed to apply for the search year for highly educated persons when graduation, promotion or completion of the scientific research may have taken place up to three years preceding the application;
Residence permit is valid for one year (and cannot be extended);
Within the search year: free to every to seek any job without a work permit (Twv);
For Master students or postdoctorate students graduated abroad or PhD’s to a foreign top 200 University a minimum score of 6.0 (International Language System) or similar English level or knowledge of Dutch language is required (no points system);
The search year permit can be requested multiple times, for example after a Bachelor ànd a Master's degree or a Master ànd a Doctor’s-degree;
Reduced salary criterion applies when advancing in the highly skilled migrant scheme;
A highly skilled migrant permit can be requested from abroad (if a job is found) without first requesting a search year permit, where the reduced salary criterion from the highly skilled migrant scheme applies.
Note
Submit an application in time to avoid a possible residence gap, being before the expiry of your current residence permit
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9. Who is eligible for permanent residency in the Netherlands?
Conditions for permanent residency:
Having lawfully lived in the Netherlands for an uninterrupted period of at least 5 years and had a valid residence permit for a non-temporary purpose of stay
Having sufficient and long-term means of support
Not constituting a risk to public order or national security
By having completed successfully a civic integration course at A2 level
(able to read, write, speak and understand Dutch) or attained another diploma
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10. Working after your studies
- Work as a highly skilled migrant
- Paid employment
- Work on a self employed basis (including start-ups)
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11. Work as a highly skilled migrant
Conditions
You earn a gross income that meets the highly migrant criteria
Income requirement (Jan. 2016)*
Highly skilled migrants from the age of 30: € 4.240,-
Highly skilled migrants younger than 30: € 3.108,-
Persons graduated/promoted in the Netherlands: € 2.228,-
(until 1 year after graduation during the search year)
Note: Your employer in the Netherlands should have been admitted to the highly
skilled migrant scheme. No work permit required.
*) gross salary per month, excluding 8% holiday pay
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12. Paid employment Conditions:
You have suficient and long-term means of support according to the Minimum Wage and Minimum Holiday Allowance Act. Currently € 1.524,60 gross per month* excl. 8% holiday pay (€ 351,85 per week)
Submitting a job contract and salary information from a Dutch employer or Dutch branch of a foreign company
Work permit: the application for a single permit must comply with the criteria for each category as prescribed in the Foreign Nationals Employment Act (Wav)
Note 1: In general a work permit will only be issued by UWV if there are no suitable employees available with the nationality of one of the member states of the EU
Note 2: The employer does not have to be a recognized sponsor
*As from
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13. Work on a self-employed basis
including work as a freelancer
General conditions:
Submitting a business plan showing the business or the profession are vital for the Dutch economy,
- You have sufficient and long-term means of support
- The IND will ask advice from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation (this advice will be followed by the IND: the advice is either positive for granting a residence permit or negative for refusing a residence permit)
- For Start-ups: to set up an innovative business with the aid of a facilitator; after one year possibility to apply for a regular self-employed residence permit
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14. Application procedure
Who applies for a residence permit of for a change of purpose of stay and how?
Orientation/Search year → the foreign national by letter post
Highly skilled migrant → the employer (recognized sponsor) by letter post
Paid employment → the employer (non-recognized sponsor) OR the foreign national by letter post
Self-employed/start-ups → foreign national by letter post
Note: It is important to apply in time in order to avoid a possible residence gap: when your residence permit is still valid
Application forms: or at the IND-desks/Expat-centers
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15. Application fees
You need to pay the necessary fees before the application for a residence permit is handled:
Orientation year for highly educated persons € 622,-
Highly skilled migrants € 881,-
Paid employment € 881,-
Work on a self-employed basis €1.296,-
Innovative start-up € 311,-
Scientific researchers (under Directive 2005/71/EC) € 311,-
European Blue Card holders € 881,-
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16. Further contact For more information please visit:
under tab Individuals (Particulier)
Contact by phone: 088 – (during week days from am to 5.00 pm),
by form or Twitter. From abroad you may call
You may also visit in person one of our 8 local IND-desk locations:
Amsterdam, Hoofddorp, Rijswijk, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Den Bosch, Eindhoven, Zwolle
or expat centers:
Amsterdam, Den Haag, Eindhoven, Enschede, Groningen, Rotterdam
Also useful information for students, graduates and researchers:
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17. Thank you for your attention!
Any other questions?
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