Municipality of Oosterhout: registering a foreign document
Please note: you can register a foreign document only if you live in the Netherlands and are registered with a municipality.
Do you want to register a foreign document? For more information, contact the municipality.
How to register in the Netherlands for the first time:
- Make an appointment with the municipality.
- Bring the following documents:
- Your valid identity document (showing your nationality)
- Proof of residence, such as a rental contract or property deed
- If you were not born in the Netherlands: your birth certificate
- If you do not have European nationality: proof that the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) has approved your stay
- If you are coming from Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius or Saba: a relocation notice
- Optional additional documents:
- A marriage or divorce certificate
- A death certificate of your partner (as proof that the marriage was dissolved due to death)
- Birth certificates of your children
- If you have proof of deregistration from your previous country, bring that as well.
- All persons moving with you must also come in person.
Are the required documents not in Dutch, English, German or French? Or do you not have a multilingual standard form? Then you must have them translated. If the translator is sworn in the Netherlands, legalization of the translation is not required. If the translator is sworn abroad, the legalized original document must be legalized again in the Netherlands. You can read more about this at Nederlandwereldwijd.nl.
The registration of a foreign document is free of charge.
Questions about this topic?
Contact the Municipality of Oosterhout