Municipality of West Betuwe: applying for a new passport or renewing your old one

You apply for a passport at the municipality. You can apply for a passport at home or at the town hall in Geldermalsen. Then always make an appointment. Your passport will be ready after about a week. We will then deliver it to your home or to another location in the Netherlands. You can indicate where and when we should deliver your passport. Or you can pick up your passport at the town hall.

Home service
We also offer home service. You can apply for a passport, identity card or driving license at home and have it delivered to your home. Always make an appointment for this. We will call you approximately 2 days before the appointment. An employee will then go through the appointment with you by telephone. An employee of the municipality will then come to your home to take the application. We deliver the requested documents to almost every location in the Netherlands.

Permission travel document child up to 18 years DigiD
Good to know: the retention period of the consent form is one month.

Passing travel document missing
Lost your travel document? First report that you have lost the document and then make an appointment to request a new document. From 1 October 2021 you can only travel to the (UK) with a valid passport. This applies to all countries of the UK. So for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Residents of West Betuwe who want to apply for a passport, ID card or (extension of the) driver's license do not have to take longer waiting times into account.

After around a week, you can collect your passport yourself from the municipality. This also applies to children up to the age of 18. When you apply, you will be provided with more information about how to collect your passport.

You have 3 months in which to collect your new passport.

Do you need your passport sooner than that?

• If you need your passport quickly, you can make a spoedaanvraag (urgent request). If you apply for the passport before 14:00, you will be able to collect it the next working day. Allow for some delay if you no longer have your old passport.
• If you need the passport today, contact the Koninklijke Marechaussee (Royal Netherlands Marechaussee) for an emergency passport.

Validity

• An adult passport is valid for 10 years.
• For children up to the age of 18, a passport is valid for 5 years.