Descent Gives Nationality Outright and Residence Not at All
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
116 exceptions recorded across 45 countries · none match Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to Netherlands · Residency through ancestry
A Dutch ancestor is not a residence route: article 3.4(1) of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000 lists the restrictions a permit may be granted under and descent is not one of them. Descent does something larger and simpler. Article 3(1) of the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap makes a child Dutch where the father or the mother was Dutch at the time of its birth, with no generation limit and no count of anybody's days. The limit sits one generation further out and is about residence rather than time: article 3(3) makes a child Dutch in the third generation only where the parent had principal residence in the Kingdom at the child's birth, was themselves born to a parent with principal residence there, and the child has principal residence there too. Beside that, the Act carries an option for people a 1985 rule left out: a person born before 1 January 1985 to a Dutch mother and a non-Dutch father may acquire Dutch nationality by declaration, and so may their children.
At a glance
- A residence route by descent
- None
Article 3.4(1) of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000 names every restriction a permit may carry, and none of them is entered by descent.
- Nationality by descent, first generation born abroad
- Automatic, where either parent was Dutch at the birth
Article 3(1) of the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap, which sets no condition of residence or presence.
- What limits the line
- Principal residence in the Kingdom, not a number of days
Article 3(3), which requires it of the parent at the child's birth, of the grandparent at the parent's birth, and of the child.
- Born before 1 January 1985 to a Dutch mother
- An option, by written declaration
Article 6(1)(i) of the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap.
- Their children
- The same option, once the parent has acquired Dutch nationality or died before acquiring it
Article 6(1)(k).
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«1 De in artikel 14, derde lid, van de Wet bedoelde beperkingen houden verband met: - a. verblijf als familie- of gezinslid; - b. verblijf als economisch niet-actieve langdurig ingezetene; - c. arbeid als zelfstandige; - d. arbeid als kennismigrant; - e. verblijf als houder van de Europese blauwe kaart; - f. seizoenarbeid; - g. overplaatsing binnen een onderneming; - h. arbeid in loondienst; - i. grensoverschrijdende dienstverlening; - j. onderzoek in de zin van richtlijn (EU) 2016/801; - k. lerend werken; - l. arbeid als niet-geprivilegieerd militair of niet-geprivilegieerd burgerpersoneel; - m. studie; - n. het zoeken naar en verrichten van arbeid al dan niet in loondienst; - o. uitwisseling, al dan niet in het kader van een verdrag; - p. medische behandeling; - q. tijdelijke humanitaire gronden; - r. het afwachten van een verzoek op grond van artikel 17 van de Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap ; - s. niet-tijdelijke humanitaire gronden.»Quoted for the absence. No limb of the list is entered by descent from a Dutch national.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The authentic text is Dutch. The English renderings that exist elsewhere are translations and may not be quoted as the instrument. Much of what decides a Dutch application is not here as law: the Vreemdelingencirculaire 2000 is a policy circular of the State Secretary, and the IND's own pages are an agency describing the law it applies. The reach of each instrument also differs inside the Kingdom - the Vreemdelingenwet 2000 governs the European Netherlands, the Caribbean Netherlands has its own admission Act, and Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten legislate their own admission entirely, while the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap is a Kingdom Act and applies across all of it.
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«1 Nederlander is het kind waarvan ten tijde van zijn geboorte de vader of de moeder Nederlander is, alsmede het kind van een Nederlander die voordien is overleden.»Our translation - not official
A child of whom, at the time of its birth, the father or the mother is Dutch is a Dutch national, as is the child of a Dutch national who has died before that time.
One sentence, no conditions. It reaches a child born anywhere, to a parent who was Dutch at the time, and it reaches the child of a Dutch parent who had already died.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The authentic text is Dutch. The English renderings that exist elsewhere are translations and may not be quoted as the instrument. Much of what decides a Dutch application is not here as law: the Vreemdelingencirculaire 2000 is a policy circular of the State Secretary, and the IND's own pages are an agency describing the law it applies. The reach of each instrument also differs inside the Kingdom - the Vreemdelingenwet 2000 governs the European Netherlands, the Caribbean Netherlands has its own admission Act, and Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten legislate their own admission entirely, while the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap is a Kingdom Act and applies across all of it.
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«3 Nederlander is het kind van een vader of moeder die ten tijde van de geboorte van het kind zijn of haar hoofdverblijf heeft in Nederland, Aruba, Curaçao of Sint Maarten en die zelf geboren is als kind van een vader of moeder die ten tijde van zijn of haar geboorte in een van die landen hoofdverblijf had, mits het kind ten tijde van zijn geboorte zijn hoofdverblijf heeft in Nederland, Aruba, Curaçao of Sint Maarten.»The generational limit, written as three residence conditions rather than as a count of days or generations.
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The consolidated text of every Dutch regulation, each at a stable BWBR identifier and served whole as HTML. A date may be appended to the address to ask for the text as it stood on that day, and the page states the period the version it serves was in force.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The authentic text is Dutch. The English renderings that exist elsewhere are translations and may not be quoted as the instrument. Much of what decides a Dutch application is not here as law: the Vreemdelingencirculaire 2000 is a policy circular of the State Secretary, and the IND's own pages are an agency describing the law it applies. The reach of each instrument also differs inside the Kingdom - the Vreemdelingenwet 2000 governs the European Netherlands, the Caribbean Netherlands has its own admission Act, and Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten legislate their own admission entirely, while the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap is a Kingdom Act and applies across all of it.
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«i. de vreemdeling die vóór 1 januari 1985 is geboren uit een moeder die ten tijde van zijn geboorte Nederlander was, terwijl de vader ten tijde van die geboorte niet-Nederlander was;»The correction of a rule that until 1985 passed Dutch nationality through the father. It is an option, which means a declaration and a confirmation rather than an automatic status.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The authentic text is Dutch. The English renderings that exist elsewhere are translations and may not be quoted as the instrument. Much of what decides a Dutch application is not here as law: the Vreemdelingencirculaire 2000 is a policy circular of the State Secretary, and the IND's own pages are an agency describing the law it applies. The reach of each instrument also differs inside the Kingdom - the Vreemdelingenwet 2000 governs the European Netherlands, the Caribbean Netherlands has its own admission Act, and Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten legislate their own admission entirely, while the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap is a Kingdom Act and applies across all of it.
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«k. de vreemdeling die is geboren als kind van één van de in de onderdelen i of j bedoelde personen die het Nederlanderschap heeft verkregen dan wel voor die verkrijging is overleden;»The option reaches one generation further, to the child of the person in limb (i) or (j), and it survives that person's death before acquisition.
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The consolidated text of every Dutch regulation, each at a stable BWBR identifier and served whole as HTML. A date may be appended to the address to ask for the text as it stood on that day, and the page states the period the version it serves was in force.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The authentic text is Dutch. The English renderings that exist elsewhere are translations and may not be quoted as the instrument. Much of what decides a Dutch application is not here as law: the Vreemdelingencirculaire 2000 is a policy circular of the State Secretary, and the IND's own pages are an agency describing the law it applies. The reach of each instrument also differs inside the Kingdom - the Vreemdelingenwet 2000 governs the European Netherlands, the Caribbean Netherlands has its own admission Act, and Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten legislate their own admission entirely, while the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap is a Kingdom Act and applies across all of it.
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Practical notes
Someone who is Dutch by descent never needed admitting, which is why this record sits apart from the other residence routes on this page. The question is whether the nationality is already held, not whether a permit can be had.
Article 6 carries further limbs that are not quoted here, and article 6(1) makes the acquisition depend on a confirmation under its third paragraph. The procedural rules for making the declaration were not read.
- consolidatesRijkswet op het Nederlanderschap
Overheid.nl, Wettenbank
About this source
The consolidated text of every Dutch regulation, each at a stable BWBR identifier and served whole as HTML. A date may be appended to the address to ask for the text as it stood on that day, and the page states the period the version it serves was in force.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The authentic text is Dutch. The English renderings that exist elsewhere are translations and may not be quoted as the instrument. Much of what decides a Dutch application is not here as law: the Vreemdelingencirculaire 2000 is a policy circular of the State Secretary, and the IND's own pages are an agency describing the law it applies. The reach of each instrument also differs inside the Kingdom - the Vreemdelingenwet 2000 governs the European Netherlands, the Caribbean Netherlands has its own admission Act, and Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten legislate their own admission entirely, while the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap is a Kingdom Act and applies across all of it.
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- consolidatesVreemdelingenbesluit 2000
Overheid.nl, Wettenbank
About this source
The consolidated text of every Dutch regulation, each at a stable BWBR identifier and served whole as HTML. A date may be appended to the address to ask for the text as it stood on that day, and the page states the period the version it serves was in force.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The authentic text is Dutch. The English renderings that exist elsewhere are translations and may not be quoted as the instrument. Much of what decides a Dutch application is not here as law: the Vreemdelingencirculaire 2000 is a policy circular of the State Secretary, and the IND's own pages are an agency describing the law it applies. The reach of each instrument also differs inside the Kingdom - the Vreemdelingenwet 2000 governs the European Netherlands, the Caribbean Netherlands has its own admission Act, and Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten legislate their own admission entirely, while the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap is a Kingdom Act and applies across all of it.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source