The Statute Defines a Class of People It Then Stops Governing
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Paraguay 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 Paraguay to Netherlands · Residency under a regional treaty
Dutch admission law opens by defining who is outside it. A 'community national' is a national of an EU member state entitled under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to enter and reside in another member state, a national of an EEA state with equal rights, or a Swiss national residing under the 1999 free movement agreement - and, in two separate limbs, the third-country family members of the first and third groups. Article 8(e) then makes such a person's residence lawful for as long as they hold it under those instruments. The Netherlands does not grant that residence and cannot take it away: its own Act records it and points elsewhere.
At a glance
- Who is outside the ordinary regime
- Nationals of EU and EEA states, Swiss nationals, and the third-country family members of the first and third groups
- Where the right comes from
- The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the EEA Agreement, and the 1999 agreement with Switzerland
- What the Dutch Act does with it
- Records it as lawful residence and attaches no condition of its own
Article 8(e) of the Vreemdelingenwet 2000.
- Whether a third-country national can be inside it
- Yes, as a family member - two of the five limbs of the definition reach people holding the nationality of a third state
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Paraguay
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
«gemeenschapsonderdanen: - 1°. onderdanen van de lidstaten van de Europese Unie die op grond van het Verdrag betreffende de werking van de Europese Unie gerechtigd zijn een andere lidstaat binnen te komen en er te verblijven; - 2°. familieleden van de onder 1° genoemden die de nationaliteit van een derde staat bezitten en die uit hoofde van een ter toepassing van het Verdrag betreffende de werking van de Europese Unie genomen besluit gerechtigd zijn een lidstaat binnen te komen en er te verblijven; - 3°. onderdanen van een staat die partij is bij de Overeenkomst betreffende de Europese Economische Ruimte van 2 mei 1992, die ter zake van binnenkomst en verblijf in een lidstaat rechten genieten die gelijk zijn aan die van burgers van de lidstaten van de Europese Unie; - 4°. familieleden van de onder 3° genoemden die de nationaliteit van een derde staat bezitten en die krachtens bovengenoemde Overeenkomst gerechtigd zijn een lidstaat binnen te komen en er te verblijven; - 5°. onderdanen van de Zwitserse Bondsstaat, indien zij verblijven op grond van de op 21 juni 1999 te Luxemburg totstandgekomen Overeenkomst tussen de Europese Gemeenschap en haar lidstaten, enerzijds, en de Zwitserse Bondsstaat, anderzijds, over het vrije verkeer van personen (Trb. 2000, 16 en 86);»Five limbs. Two of them are about family members holding a third state's nationality, which is how a Brazilian or Colombian spouse of a Portuguese citizen comes to be outside Dutch admission law.
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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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«e. als gemeenschapsonderdaan zolang deze onderdaan verblijf houdt op grond van een regeling krachtens het Verdrag betreffende de werking van de Europese Unie dan wel de Overeenkomst betreffende de Europese Economische Ruimte;»Our translation - not official
as a community national for as long as that national holds residence on the basis of a rule under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or the Agreement on the European Economic Area
Lawful residence defined by reference to someone else's instrument. The duration is not a Dutch question and the Act does not pretend otherwise.
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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
This is the single largest origin distinction in Dutch migration law and it is drawn in the definitions, before any substantive provision. Everything else on this country's pages is written for people the definition does not reach.
The underlying instruments are not in this corpus. What is recorded here is what the Dutch Act says about them.
- consolidatesVreemdelingenwet 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