The Permission Belongs to the Employer, and the Labour Market Gets First Refusal
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Grenada 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 Grenada to Netherlands · Residency through work
Dutch work authorisation is written as a prohibition on the employer rather than a permission for the worker. Article 2(1) of the Wet arbeid vreemdelingen forbids an employer to have a foreigner work in the Netherlands without a work permit, or without the foreigner holding a combined permit for work with that employer. The refusal grounds in article 8 are where the route is actually decided: the permit is refused if priority supply is available on the labour market for the post, if the post was not notified to the UWV at least five weeks before the application, if the employer cannot show sufficient effort to fill it from that supply, and if the foreigner would not earn at least the statutory minimum wage over a month. The knowledge-migrant restriction in article 3.30a of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000 sits beside all that and is reached through a recognised sponsor instead. Nationality enters this area in only one place and it is a treaty: article 3(1)(a) disapplies the prohibition where an agreement with another power forbids requiring a permit at all.
At a glance
- Who the prohibition is on
- The employer, not the worker
Article 2(1) of the Wet arbeid vreemdelingen.
- Labour market test
- Refused where priority supply is available on the labour market for the post
Article 8(1)(a) of the Wet arbeid vreemdelingen.
- How long the vacancy must have been with the UWV
- Five weeks before the application
Article 8(1)(b), which also lets the Minister allow a shorter term where the UWV has already found no priority supply.
- Minimum earnings
- At least the statutory minimum wage over a period of one month
Article 8(1)(f). The Act names no amount and points at the Wet minimumloon en minimumvakantiebijslag.
- The highly skilled route
- A separate restriction, granted for work with an employer recognised as a sponsor
Article 3.30a(1) of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000.
- Where nationality changes the answer
- Only through treaties, under article 3(1)(a) of the Wet arbeid vreemdelingen
- A nationality the Besluit names in terms
- Turkish, for whom the recognised-sponsor condition falls away
Article 3.30a(2) of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000.
Requirements
- An employer holding a work permit, or a combined permit held by the worker for that employer
- A post notified to the UWV at least five weeks before the application
- No priority supply available on the labour market, and evidence the employer tried
- Pay of at least the statutory minimum wage over a month
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 Grenada
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 Het is een werkgever verboden een vreemdeling in Nederland arbeid te laten verrichten zonder tewerkstellingsvergunning of zonder dat een vreemdeling in het bezit is van een gecombineerde vergunning voor werkzaamheden bij die werkgever.»Our translation - not official
An employer is forbidden to have a foreigner perform work in the Netherlands without a work permit, or without the foreigner holding a combined permit for work with that employer.
The prohibition. Everything else in this record is an exception to it or a condition on lifting it.
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«1 Onze Minister weigert een tewerkstellingsvergunning of Onze Minister van Veiligheid en Justitie weigert een gecombineerde vergunning: - a. indien voor de desbetreffende arbeidsplaats prioriteitgenietend aanbod op de arbeidsmarkt aanwezig is; - b. indien het een arbeidsplaats betreft waarvan de beschikbaarheid niet ten minste vijf weken voor het indienen van de aanvraag aan het Uitvoeringsinstituut werknemersverzekeringen is gemeld; - c. indien de werkgever niet kan aantonen voldoende inspanningen te hebben gepleegd de arbeidsplaats door prioriteitgenietend aanbod op de arbeidsmarkt te vervullen: - d. indien van de te vervullen arbeidsplaats de arbeidsvoorwaarden, arbeidsverhoudingen of arbeidsomstandigheden beneden het niveau liggen dat wettelijk is vereist of in de desbetreffende bedrijfstak gebruikelijk is; - e. indien het een vreemdeling betreft: - 1°. die niet beschikt over een voor het verrichten van arbeid geldige verblijfsvergunning, noch een zodanige vergunning heeft aangevraagd, noch, voor zover ter verkrijging van een dergelijke vergunning vereist, een machtiging tot voorlopig verblijf heeft aangevraagd; - 2°. aan wie een verblijfsvergunning is geweigerd of wiens verblijfsvergunning is ingetrokken; of - 3°. die een verblijfsvergunning asiel als bedoeld in artikel 28 van de Vreemdelingenwet 2000 heeft aangevraagd, en die rechtmatig verblijf heeft op grond van artikel 8, onder m, van de Vreemdelingenwet 2000 of wiens aanvraag versneld wordt behandeld overeenkomstig artikel 42, lid 1, punten a) tot en met f) van de Procedureverordening. - f. indien het een vreemdeling betreft, die met de desbetreffende arbeid over een periode van een maand niet ten minste een bedrag verdient gelijk aan het minimumloon, bedoeld in artikel 8, eerste lid, onderdeel b, van de Wet minimumloon en minimumvakantiebijslag ; - g. indien het een arbeidsplaats betreft die behoort tot een bij algemene maatregel van bestuur aangewezen categorie van werkzaamheden, waarvan het niet in het Nederlands belang is deze door vreemdelingen te laten verrichten; of - h. indien het een categorie van werkzaamheden of van vreemdelingen betreft waarvoor overeenkomstig artikel 5a een limiet aan het aantal te verlenen tewerkstellingsvergunningen of gecombineerde vergunningen is gesteld, welke limiet is bereikt.»The refusal grounds, and the real shape of the route. Paragraphs (a) to (c) are a labour market test in three parts, and (f) is a floor on pay.
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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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«1 Het verbod, bedoeld in artikel 2, eerste lid , is niet van toepassing met betrekking tot: - a. een vreemdeling ten aanzien van wie ingevolge bepalingen, vastgesteld bij overeenkomst met andere mogendheden dan wel bij een voor Nederland verbindend besluit van een volkenrechtelijke organisatie, een tewerkstellingsvergunning of een gecombineerde vergunning niet mag worden verlangd; - b. een vreemdeling die beschikt over een verblijfsvergunning voor bepaalde tijd als bedoeld in artikel 14 van de Vreemdelingenwet 2000 voor het verrichten van arbeid als zelfstandige, voor zover deze vreemdeling arbeid verricht als zelfstandige; - c. een vreemdeling die behoort tot een bij of krachtens algemene maatregel van bestuur aangewezen categorie, dan wel bij of krachtens algemene maatregel van bestuur aangewezen categorie van werkzaamheden verricht. - 2 Van de bepalingen, bedoeld in het eerste lid, onder a , wordt door Onze Minister mededeling gedaan in de Staatscourant.»Where origin enters. Limb (a) disapplies the prohibition wherever a treaty or a binding decision of an international organisation forbids requiring a permit, and the Act does not say which treaties those are: paragraph 2 has the Minister announce them in the Staatscourant instead.
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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 worden verleend onder een beperking verband houdend met arbeid als kennismigrant aan een vreemdeling als bedoeld in artikel 2.1 van het Besluit uitvoering Wet arbeid vreemdelingen 2022 , die arbeid ten behoeve van een krachtens artikel 2c van de Wet als referent erkende werkgever verricht of wil verrichten tenzij het overeengekomen loon naar het oordeel van Onze Minister van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid niet marktconform is.»The knowledge-migrant restriction, defined by reference to the Besluit uitvoering Wet arbeid vreemdelingen 2022, which was not read.
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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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«2 De aanvraag wordt niet afgewezen op de grond dat de werkgever niet krachtens artikel 2c van de Wet als referent is erkend of ten behoeve van het verblijf van de vreemdeling geen verklaring als bedoeld in artikel 2a, tweede lid, van de Wet heeft afgelegd, indien de vreemdeling de Turkse nationaliteit heeft. In dat geval wordt de werkgever niet als referent aangewezen.»A nationality named in terms. For a Turkish national the application cannot be refused because the employer is not a recognised sponsor, and the employer is then not designated as one.
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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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«Onze Minister kan regels stellen over de rechten die vreemdelingen ontlenen aan de volgende verdragen: - a. het Europees Vestigingsverdrag (Trb. 1957, 20); - b. het Vluchtelingenverdrag (Trb. 1954, 88); - c. het Verdrag betreffende de status van staatlozen (Trb. 1955, 42); - d. de op 12 september 1963 te Ankara gesloten Overeenkomst waarbij een associatie tot stand wordt gebracht tussen de Europese Economische Gemeenschap en Turkije (Trb. 1964, 217), het op 23 november 1970 te Brussel tot stand gekomen Aanvullend Protocol bij die overeenkomst (Trb. 1971, 70), Besluit 1/80 van de Associatieraad EEG-Turkije betreffende de ontwikkeling van de Associatie; - e. het Nederlands-Duits Vestigingsverdrag (Stb. 1906, 279); - f. het Nederlands-Zwitsers Tractaat (Stb. 1878, nr. 137); - g. het Nederlands-Amerikaans Vriendschapsverdrag (Trb. 1956, 40); - h. de Overeenkomst tussen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden en de Republiek Suriname inzake het verblijf en de vestiging van wederzijde onderdanen (1975) (Trb. 1975, 133); - i. de Overeenkomst tussen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden en de Republiek Suriname inzake de binnenkomst en het verblijf van wederzijdse onderdanen met bijlage en protocol inzake verkregen rechten (1981) (Trb. 1981, 35); - j. de Associatieverdragen EG met Roemenië (PbEG 1994, L 357) en Bulgarije (PbEG 1994, L 358); - k. de 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); - l. de Economische Partnerschapsovereenkomst tussen de CARIFORUM-staten, enerzijds, en de Europese Gemeenschap en haar lidstaten, anderzijds (Trb. 2009, 18); - m. de Handelsovereenkomst tussen de Europese Unie en haar lidstaten, enerzijds, en Colombia en Peru, anderzijds (Trb. 2012, 178); - n. het Associatieakkoord tussen de Europese Unie en de Europese Gemeenschap voor Atoomenergie en haar lidstaten, enerzijds, en Georgië, anderzijds (Trb. 2014, 210); - o. de Associatieovereenkomst tussen de Europese Unie en de Europese Gemeenschap voor Atoomenergie en haar lidstaten, enerzijds, en Oekraïne, anderzijds (Trb. 2014, 160); - p. de Associatieovereenkomst tussen de Europese Unie en de Europese Gemeenschap voor Atoomenergie en hun lidstaten, enerzijds, en de Republiek Moldavië, anderzijds (Trb. 2014, 207).»Not a work provision, but the list of agreements the Minister may make rules under, and it is where the origin-dependence of Dutch admission law is written down: establishment treaties with Germany of 1906, Switzerland of 1878 and the United States of 1956 sit beside the Turkey association instruments, two Suriname agreements, the association agreements with Romania and Bulgaria, the CARIFORUM partnership agreement, the trade agreement with Colombia and Peru, and the association agreements with Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova.
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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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Practical notes
A work permit and a residence permit are two decisions in two Acts. Article 14a of the Vreemdelingenwet 2000 requires the Minister to seek advice from the labour authority before deciding on a combined permit, which is how the two are joined.
The treaties in article 8.26 of the Vreemdelingenbesluit 2000 are named there and not reproduced. None of them was read for this record, so nothing is said here about what any of them grants.
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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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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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