No Sum of Money Appears Anywhere in the List
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Saint Lucia 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 Lucia to Netherlands · Residency through investment
The Netherlands has no investor route in its residence decree. Article 3.4(1) of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000 lists the nineteen restrictions a permit may be granted under, and none of them is investment, capital or wealth. The closest thing is self-employment, and article 3.30 makes plain that money is not the test: the permit may be granted to someone performing or about to perform self-employed work which in the Minister's judgement serves an essential Dutch interest, who earns durable and independent sufficient means from that work, and who meets the competence requirements for it. Whether the interest is essential is judged on a points system laid down by ministerial regulation in agreement with the Minister of Economic Affairs, and that regulation may also name activities which serve no essential Dutch interest at all. One variant exists for a person founding an innovative undertaking, who gets a year to meet the ordinary conditions.
At a glance
- An investor restriction
- None
Article 3.4(1) of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000 names every restriction a permit may carry, and none of them is investment or capital.
- A sum that buys residence
- None
Article 3.30 of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000 sets the self-employment conditions and states no amount at all.
- What is asked instead
- That the work serves an essential Dutch interest in the Minister's judgement
- How that is measured
- A points system laid down by ministerial regulation in agreement with the Minister of Economic Affairs
Article 3.30(2). The regulation may also designate activities that serve no essential Dutch interest.
- The startup variant
- Founding an innovative undertaking, with one year to meet the ordinary conditions
Article 3.30(6) of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000.
- Who escapes the essential-interest test
- A long-term resident, and a person with seven unbroken years of Dutch maritime, continental-shelf, inland-shipping or international road transport employment
Article 3.30(3) and (5).
Requirements
- Self-employed work serving an essential Dutch interest, judged on a points system
- Durable and independent sufficient means earned from that work
- The competence requirements for the work and the requirements for running the business
Country-level policy
Almost every residence route on this page has a step in front of it that the route itself does not mention. Article 16(1)(a) of the Vreemdelingenwet 2000 lets a fixed-term residence permit be refused where the foreigner does not hold a valid machtiging tot voorlopig verblijf matching the purpose applied for, and article 2.3 of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000 makes the same document a condition of entry for a stay of more than 90 days. It is obtained from a Dutch post abroad, which means the ordinary applicant has to leave to begin. Article 17(1) then lists eight categories for whom the absence of that document is not a ground of refusal, and the first of them is not about the applicant at all: nationals of states designated by ministerial regulation. The designation is article 2.2 of the Voorschrift Vreemdelingen 2000, and the annex it points at carries twelve entries.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Saint Lucia
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 putting money into the country.
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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 De verblijfsvergunning regulier voor bepaalde tijd kan onder een beperking, verband houdende met het verrichten van arbeid als zelfstandige worden verleend aan de vreemdeling die: - a. arbeid als zelfstandige verricht of gaat verrichten, waarmee naar het oordeel van Onze Minister een wezenlijk Nederlands belang is gediend; - b. uit die werkzaamheden duurzaam en zelfstandig voldoende middelen van bestaan verwerft, en - c. voldoet aan de bevoegdheidsvereisten voor de uitoefening van die arbeid en aan de vereisten voor het uitoefenen van het desbetreffende bedrijf.»The self-employment conditions in full. Limb (b) asks that the means come out of the work, which is a different test from having capital.
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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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«2 De beoordeling van het wezenlijk Nederlands belang, bedoeld in het eerste lid, onderdeel a, van de ondernemingsactiviteiten geschiedt aan de hand van het bij ministeriële regeling in overeenstemming met Onze Minister van Economische Zaken vastgestelde puntenstelsel of op een andere bij die ministeriële regeling te bepalen geschikte wijze. In die regeling kunnen ondernemingsactiviteiten worden aangewezen waarmee geen wezenlijk Nederlands belang is gediend.»The essential Dutch interest is not defined here. It is scored, by a regulation this record did not read, and the same regulation may put activities out of reach entirely.
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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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«6 In afwijking van het eerste en tweede lid kan de verblijfsvergunning worden verleend aan de vreemdeling die een innovatieve onderneming opricht waarmee hij arbeid als zelfstandige verricht of gaat verrichten, die duurzaam beschikt over voldoende middelen van bestaan en die aannemelijk maakt dat hij binnen één jaar na verlening van de vergunning zal voldoen aan de voorwaarden, bedoeld in het eerste en tweede lid. Bij ministeriële regeling worden nadere voorwaarden gesteld aan de toepassing van de eerste volzin.»The startup door. It suspends the first two paragraphs for a year rather than replacing them.
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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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«3 De aanvraag wordt niet afgewezen wegens het ontbreken van een wezenlijk Nederlands belang, indien de vreemdeling op het moment waarop de aanvraag is ontvangen een ononderbroken arbeidsverleden heeft van ten minste zeven jaar: - a. aan boord van een zeeschip dat op grond van voor Nederland geldende rechtsregels gerechtigd is de vlag van het Koninkrijk te voeren; - b. op het Nederlandse deel van het continentaal plat; - c. in de internationale binnenscheepvaart aan boord van Nederlandse schepen of daarmee gelijkgestelde inrichtingen, of - d. in het internationale wegtransport in dienst van een Nederlandse werkgever, voorzover dat transport vanuit of naar Nederland plaatsvindt.»Seven unbroken years in four named kinds of Dutch transport work, and the essential-interest test falls away. Article 3.30(4) then says that spells of involuntary unemployment spent in the Netherlands do not count as breaks.
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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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«5 De verblijfsvergunning kan aan een langdurig ingezetene worden verleend in afwijking van het eerste lid, onder a.»Our translation - not official
The residence permit may be granted to a long-term resident by way of derogation from the first paragraph, limb (a).
The same escape for a long-term resident, in one sentence.
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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
The points regulation made under article 3.30(2) decides almost everything a would-be founder wants to know, and it is not in this corpus. What is recorded here is the frame the Besluit puts around it.
A reader looking for a residence-by-investment scheme should note what this record does and does not say: the consolidated Besluit we read names no such restriction. Whether one existed before is not a question this reading answers.
- consolidatesVreemdelingenbesluit 2000
Overheid.nl, Wettenbank
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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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