For a non-EU resident with a Dutch residence permit, \u201cpermanent residence\u201d can involve more than one status. The IND assesses the route you qualify for; long-term EU resident status can be particularly relevant if you may later move within the EU.<\/p>\n
The standard IND route normally starts with at least five consecutive years<\/strong> holding a valid Dutch residence permit, with the Netherlands as your main residence throughout. Other conditions apply and there are exceptions to the five-year period.<\/p>\n This is a distinct residence status, not the same thing as being an EU citizen. It can make a later residence application in another participating EU country easier, but that other country still applies its own admission rules.<\/p>\n For permanent regular residence and EU long-term resident status, applicants usually have to meet the civic-integration requirement unless an exemption or dispensation applies. Check the current IND page before planning an exam around an old requirement.<\/p>\n If you are an EU\/EEA\/Swiss citizen, do not use a guide for Dutch residence-permit holders as if it were your route. Free-movement residence and permanent residence under EU law have their own conditions. Family members can also have different documentation depending on nationality.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How to distinguish permanent regular residence, EU long-term resident status and EU-law permanent residence, including the five-year and integration checkpoints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","ba_country":[2],"ba_topic":[628,629,625,153],"ba_audience":[15,16,17],"ba_section":[609,20,19],"ba_stage":[28,30],"ba_location":[],"class_list":["post-831","ba_guide","type-ba_guide","status-publish","hentry","ba_country-netherlands","ba_topic-eu-long-term-resident","ba_topic-eu-residence","ba_topic-long-term-residence","ba_topic-permanent-residence","ba_audience-eu-eea-swiss","ba_audience-non-eu","ba_audience-residents","ba_section-government-admin","ba_section-living","ba_section-moving","ba_stage-getting-established","ba_stage-living-stage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderlessadvice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ba_guide\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderlessadvice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ba_guide"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderlessadvice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ba_guide"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderlessadvice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borderlessadvice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ba_guide\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/borderlessadvice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ba_guide\/831\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderlessadvice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ba_country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderlessadvice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fba_country&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"ba_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderlessadvice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fba_topic&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"ba_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderlessadvice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fba_audience&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"ba_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderlessadvice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fba_section&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"ba_stage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderlessadvice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fba_stage&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"ba_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderlessadvice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fba_location&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}EU long-term resident<\/h2>\n
Civic integration<\/h2>\n
EU\/EEA\/Swiss citizens: use the EU-law route<\/h2>\n