Municipality of Goeree-Overflakkee: registering with the municipality

Are you coming to live in the Netherlands for the first time? You must then register in person with the municipality. Make an appointment with the municipality where you will be living.

Description

If you move to the Netherlands for the first time, you must register in the Personal Records Database (BRP). You register with the municipality in which you are going to live. We call this 'first registration'. You will receive a citizen service number (BSN). You will need this BSN, for example, if you want to work in the Netherlands. Or if you want to open a bank account in the Netherlands.

Have you lived in the Netherlands before, but moved abroad before October 1994? Then you must also do a 'first registration'.

First registration in the Netherlands

The conditions for a first registration in the Netherlands are:

you have:

Dutch nationality, or
- a passport from an EU/EEA country(link is external), or
- a residence permit for a definite or indefinite period
you will stay in the Netherlands for longer than 4 months

Take with you:

your valid ID (which shows your nationality)
proof that you have living space, such as a rental contract or proof of ownership
if you were not born in the Netherlands: your birth certificate
if you do not have European nationality: proof that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) has approved your stay
if you come from Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius or Saba: a relocation notice
possibly the following documents:
- a marriage or divorce certificate
- a death certificate of your partner (as proof that the marriage has been dissolved by death)
  the birth certificates of your children
Do you have proof of deregistration from the previous country? So take that with you.

Have the requested documents not been drawn up in Dutch, English, German or French? Or do you not have a multilingual model form? Then you have to have them translated. Is the translator sworn in in the Netherlands? Then you do not need to have the translation legalised. Is the translator sworn abroad? Then you must have the legalized original document legalized again in the Netherlands. You can read more about this at Nederlandwereldwijd.nl of the Dutch government.

The municipality of Goeree-Overflakkee works by appointment.

Make an appointment

This is how you register for the first time in the Netherlands: