A Year of the Sponsor's Own Residence, Unless Three Treaties Say Otherwise
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Chile 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 Chile to Netherlands · Residency through marriage
Family residence in the Netherlands is granted under article 3.13(1) of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000 to a family member described in article 3.14 of a sponsor described in article 3.15, provided every condition in articles 3.16 to 3.22a is met. Two ages run through it: the spouse or registered partner must be twenty-one or older, and so must the sponsor. The income condition in article 3.22(1) asks the sponsor for durable and independent means equal to the statutory minimum wage, and excuses it where the sponsor has reached pension age or is permanently and wholly unfit for work. The provision that depends on where you come from is article 3.15(3): where the sponsor holds an ordinary fixed-term residence permit, the family member's permit is not granted until the sponsor has been lawfully in the Netherlands for at least a year - unless the sponsor falls within the Turkey association decision, the Netherlands-United States friendship treaty of 1956, or the Netherlands-Japan treaty of commerce and navigation of 1913.
At a glance
- Minimum age, both sides
- Twenty-one
Article 3.14(a) for the family member and article 3.15(1) for the sponsor.
- The sponsor's own waiting period
- One year of lawful residence, where the sponsor holds an ordinary fixed-term permit
Article 3.15(3) of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000.
- Who is not kept waiting
- A sponsor within the Turkey association decision, the 1956 treaty with the United States, or the 1913 treaty with Japan
Article 3.15(3)(b), which names the three instruments in terms.
- Income required of the sponsor
- Durable and independent means equal to the statutory minimum wage including holiday allowance
Article 3.22(1) read with article 3.74(1)(a). Neither article states a figure.
- When that income is not required
- Where the sponsor has reached pension age or is permanently and wholly unfit for work
Article 3.22(2).
- Unmarried partners
- Covered, where the relationship is duly attested, durable and exclusive
Article 3.14(b) of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000.
Requirements
- A spouse or registered partner aged twenty-one or older, in a marriage or partnership valid under Dutch private international law
- A sponsor aged twenty-one or older who is Dutch, or whose lawful residence is not temporary
- Durable and independent means equal to the statutory minimum wage, unless the sponsor has reached pension age or is wholly unfit for work
- A year of the sponsor's own lawful residence, where the sponsor holds an ordinary fixed-term permit and no treaty applies
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 Chile
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 verblijfsvergunning regulier voor bepaalde tijd wordt onder een beperking verband houdend met verblijf als familie- of gezinslid, verleend aan het in artikel 3.14 genoemde gezinslid van de in artikel 3.15 bedoelde hoofdpersoon, indien wordt voldaan aan alle in de artikelen 3.16 tot en met 3.22a genoemde voorwaarden.»Our translation - not official
A fixed-term regular residence permit is granted, under a restriction connected with residence as a family member, to the family member named in article 3.14 of the sponsor referred to in article 3.15, if all the conditions named in articles 3.16 to 3.22a are met.
The structure of the route: who, from whom, and which conditions. Paragraph 2 makes the permit discretionary in every other case.
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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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«De verblijfsvergunning, bedoeld in artikel 3.13, eerste lid , wordt verleend aan: - a. de vreemdeling van 21 jaar of ouder die met de hoofdpersoon een naar Nederlands internationaal privaatrecht geldig huwelijk of een naar Nederlands internationaal privaatrecht geldig geregistreerd partnerschap is aangegaan;»Twenty-one, and a marriage or registered partnership valid under Dutch private international law. Limb (b), not quoted here, extends the same age to a duly attested durable and exclusive relationship.
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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, bedoeld in artikel 3.13, eerste lid , wordt verleend aan het in artikel 3.14 bedoelde gezinslid van: - a. een Nederlander van 21 jaar of ouder, of - b. een vreemdeling van 21 jaar of ouder met rechtmatig verblijf als bedoeld in artikel 8, onder a tot en met e, dan wel l, van de Wet , dat niet-tijdelijk is in de zin van artikel 3.5 .»The sponsor. Either a Dutch national of twenty-one or older, or a foreigner of that age whose lawful residence is not temporary within article 3.5.
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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 Indien de hoofdpersoon bij wie de vreemdeling als gezinslid in Nederland wil verblijven, houder is van de verblijfsvergunning regulier voor bepaalde tijd wordt de verblijfsvergunning aan het gezinslid niet verleend, dan nadat de hoofdpersoon ten minste een jaar rechtmatig in Nederland heeft verbleven, tenzij: - a. de hoofdpersoon in Nederland verblijft voor een tijdelijk doel als bedoeld in artikel 2.1 van het Besluit inburgering of artikel 2.2 van het Besluit inburgering 2021 ; - b. de hoofdpersoon onder het toepassingsbereik valt van artikel 13 van Associatiebesluit nr. 1/80 van de Associatieraad EEG-Turkije betreffende de ontwikkeling van de Associatie, het Nederlands-Amerikaans Vriendschapsverdrag (Trb. 1956, 40) of het Verdrag van handel en scheepvaart tussen Nederland en Japan (Stb. 1913, 389); - c. niet-toelating als gezinslid in strijd zou zijn met de belangen van minderjarige kinderen, bedoeld in artikel 5, vijfde lid, van richtlijn 2003/86/EG van de Raad van 22 september 2003 inzake het recht op gezinshereniging (PbEG 2003, L 251).»The origin-dependent provision on this page. The year of the sponsor's own residence falls away for three named instruments, for a sponsor here for a temporary purpose, and where refusal would conflict with the interests of minor children.
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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, bedoeld in artikel 3.13, eerste lid , wordt verleend, indien de hoofdpersoon duurzaam en zelfstandig beschikt over voldoende middelen van bestaan als bedoeld in artikel 3.74, eerste lid, onder a . - 2 In afwijking van het eerste lid wordt de verblijfsvergunning eveneens verleend, indien de hoofdpersoon de pensioengerechtigde leeftijd, bedoeld in artikel 7a, eerste lid, van de Algemene Ouderdomswet , heeft bereikt of naar het oordeel van Onze Minister blijvend en volledig arbeidsongeschikt is.»The income condition and its two escapes.
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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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Practical notes
The waiting period in article 3.15(3) is the sponsor's, not the applicant's, and it is counted in lawful residence rather than in time since arrival.
The three treaties named in article 3.15(3)(b) are named and not reproduced. None of them was read for this record, so nothing is said here about who falls within them.
Articles 3.16 to 3.21 carry further conditions and were not read for this record, so this page does not state what they are.
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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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