Семейная совместная натурализация

Families do not naturalise as a unit, but they can naturalise together, and doing so is markedly cheaper. Two distinct mechanisms sit behind this route.

The first is joint filing by partners. Two spouses, two registered partners, or two unmarried people in a durable relationship who file at the same time pay a single joint tariff — EUR 1,454 in the European Netherlands rather than EUR 2,278 for two separate applications (2026 schedule; WBN 2025/3, Stcrt. 2025, 31825, in force 1 January 2026). Each partner is still assessed individually against every condition.

The second is co-naturalisation of minor children (medeverlening) under RWN art 11(1). A child included in a parent's application costs EUR 168 in the European Netherlands rather than a full adult fee, and is relieved of the passport requirement in defined circumstances.

What marriage to a Dutch national brings is separate and larger. Under RWN art 8(2) the residence condition does not apply at all to a person who has for at least three years been the spouse of, and cohabits with, a Dutch national. Under art 8(4) an unmarried person who has cohabited continuously for at least three years in a durable relationship with an unmarried Dutch national needs three years of residence rather than five. And under RWN art 9(3)(c) a person married to a Dutch national is exempt from the duty to give up their existing nationality.

The one thing every family should understand before the ceremony: the decision names each person and each receives their own personal extract, but if the principal applicant does not appear, the children's extracts are not handed over either — even if the children are standing there. Nothing vests for anyone.

Совместная натурализация супругов требует отдельного удовлетворения сокращенных критериев (обычно 3-летний брак без брака + сожительство + инбургинг + хороший характер + отказ в соответствии со статьей 9(1)(b) с учетом исключений из статьи 9(3). Несовершеннолетние дети до 16 лет включаются по решению родителей автоматически; детям 16+ требуется собственное письменное согласие в соответствии со статьей 11(3). Все члены семьи натурализуются на основании ОДНОГО указа Koninklijk Besluit.

Основные утверждения с тегами маршрута:

• Совместная натурализация семьи (medenaturalisatie): несовершеннолетние дети натурализующего родителя — автоматическое включение, если они проживают с заявителем; согласно статьям 11–12 RWN… (контакты = 3, конф = 0,94)

Each applicant is assessed separately. As of 25 July 2026:

For an adult partner:

• Residence: five years of lawful admission and principal residence immediately before the application, counted across the European Netherlands, Aruba, Curacao, Sint Maarten and the Caribbean public bodies (RWN art 8(1)(c)) — but the condition does not apply at all where you have for at least three years been the spouse of, and cohabit with, a Dutch national (RWN art 8(2)), and it is reduced to three years for an unmarried person who has cohabited continuously for at least three years in a durable relationship with an unmarried Dutch national (RWN art 8(4)). Two years applies where your admission and principal residence in those territories total at least ten years (RWN art 8(3)).
• No objection to your continued residence for an indefinite period (RWN art 8(1)(b)).
• The naturalisation test at CEFR A2 in reading, listening, speaking and writing (Besluit naturalisatietoets arts 3(1)(h)(2) and 5(1); in force since 26 May 2022). Marriage to a Dutch national does not exempt you from this.
• Conduct: no serious suspicion, based on your conduct, that you present a danger to public order, good morals or the security of the Kingdom (RWN art 9(1)(a)), over a five-year rehabilitation period raised from four with effect from 1 May 2018.
• Renunciation under RWN art 9(1)(b), unless art 9(3)(c) applies because you are married to a Dutch national, or another of the four statutory exemptions or eleven policy categories fits.
• The declaration of solidarity, spoken in Dutch at the ceremony (RWN arts 8(1)(e) and 23(2)).

For children included in a parent's application under RWN art 11(1):

• The child is included in the parent's application rather than filing independently. A separate per-child fee applies.
• Every child aged 16 or over signs their own declaration on residence and conduct (model 2.3), must make the declaration of solidarity, and must attend the ceremony — attendance is compulsory from 16.
• Children under 16 do not make the declaration of solidarity, but their extracts still cannot be handed over if the principal applicant fails to appear.

An adult child cannot be co-naturalised. An application by an adult child is made under RWN art 11(5) and does not carry the reliefs attaching to co-naturalisation, including the passport exemption for minors.

Alongside the ordinary requirement of a legalised or apostilled foreign birth certificate and a valid foreign passport for each applicant, a family application draws in a distinct set of civil-status documents (Handleiding Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap 2003, art 7, in force since 1 July 2026):

• The birth certificate of every child included in the application, plus the adoption deed or judgment for an adopted child.
• A marriage certificate where the application rests on three years of marriage to a Dutch national, or where the marriage conferred majority.
• A divorce or repudiation deed, and a family booklet where your country of origin uses one.
• Proof of recognition or legitimation where the application rests on RWN art 8(5).

The divorce deed and family booklet are there for a specific reason worth stating plainly: they allow the authorities to assess bigamy and polygamy. A marriage to another spouse must have been ended before Dutch nationality is granted.

The passport exemption for minors. Since 26 October 2015, minors born in the Netherlands or elsewhere in the Kingdom do not have to produce a valid foreign travel document when naturalising at the same time as their parents, provided the parents hold a valid foreign passport and a legalised or apostilled birth certificate. The same applies to minors born in a country to which the Apostille Convention applies. The exemption covers co-naturalisation under RWN art 11(1), (2), (3) and (7) and subsequent inclusion under art 11(4). It does not extend to an adult child applying independently under art 11(5).

Where a parent holds an asylum residence permit, the family will in most cases not be required to produce passports or birth certificates from the country the parent fled, since dependants cannot be required to approach those authorities. This is assessed case by case and documents may still be demanded where there is reasonable doubt about identity or nationality.

Legalisation and translation. You bear the cost and effort. In the European Netherlands a sworn translation is required only where the document is in a language other than Dutch, English, German or French; in the Caribbean Netherlands the trigger is narrower, anything other than Dutch or English. The translation must be by a sworn translator, preferably into Dutch, and must be physically attached to the original or certified copy. In the Netherlands an apostille is a sticker issued by the courts; digital apostilles issued abroad are accepted but the Netherlands issues paper ones only. Documents already legalised and processed into the population register or a Dutch civil-status deed need not be produced again unless there is well-founded doubt.

Everyone files in person. A proxy is accepted only for compelling reasons (BVVN art 3(1)-(2); in force since 1 March 2017). You file with the authority for where you live: the burgemeester in the European Netherlands, the Cabinet of the Governor in Aruba, Curacao or Sint Maarten, the Minister through the immigration service's Caribbean Netherlands unit in Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, or the Dutch diplomatic or consular post abroad (BVVN art 2).

To obtain the joint tariff, partners must file simultaneously. It is not applied retrospectively to two applications lodged weeks apart.

The fee is checked and taken before the file goes into treatment, and the one-year decision period does not begin until the fee has been paid or fully waived and all documents necessary for assessment have been received (RWN art 9(4)). For a family this means the slowest document holds up everyone on the application. If material is missing, the burgemeester gives six weeks after filing to complete the file.

Each applicant is then assessed on their own merits. Conduct is tested individually, and every adult applicant and every child aged 16 or over signs their own declaration on residence and conduct (model 2.3). The receiving authority may give any named person aged 12 or over, and legal representatives and the other parent, the opportunity to state their views.

The receiving authority advises the Minister and forwards the file. In Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten the Governor's advice travels via that country's own Minister of Justice, who adds a second advice. The immigration service decides and, on a grant, proposes the family to the King.

The Royal Decree names each person and each receives a personal extract. Nationality vests for a named person only when that person's extract is handed to them, and the handover cannot take place until the declaration of solidarity has actually been made by those required to make it — adults and children aged 16 and over (BVVN arts 60b(1) and 60b(3)). Once handed over, the decree backdates for each person to the day it bears.

The authority where you live must summon you within six weeks of the date the decree bears, and the handover must follow within six weeks of that summons (BVVN arts 60b(2) and 60b(7)), each extendable by a reasonable period for special circumstances.

Filing together is the saving. Under BON 2002 art 3(3) a joint tariff applies where two spouses, two registered partners, or two unmarried people in a durable relationship file at the same time, and under art 3(4) a separate reduced tariff applies to each co-naturalising child (RWN art 11(1)).

In force 1 January 2026, per constituency. Each column is a separately fixed amount in its own currency; do not convert between them.

• European Netherlands (WBN 2025/3, Stcrt. 2025, 31825): joint standard EUR 1,454, against EUR 1,139 for a single applicant; joint reduced EUR 1,163, against EUR 847 single reduced; each co-naturalising child EUR 168.
• Aruba (WBN-A 2025/3, Stcrt. 2025, 31841): joint standard Afl. 3,023; joint reduced Afl. 2,418; per child Afl. 349.
• Curacao and Sint Maarten (WBN-CM 2025/3, Stcrt. 2025, 31847): joint standard Cg 3,029; joint reduced Cg 2,423; per child Cg 350.
• Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (WBN-BES 2025/3, Stcrt. 2025, 31842): joint standard USD 1,699; joint reduced USD 1,359; per child USD 196.

Worked example, European Netherlands 2026: two partners and two children filing together pay EUR 1,454 plus two times EUR 168, so EUR 1,790. The same four people filing separately as adults would pay far more, and children filing separately as adults would each pay a full adult tariff.

The reduced joint tariff applies where at least one of the two applicants is stateless or holds an asylum residence permit under Vw 2000 art 28 or 33, or a comparable Caribbean permit (BON 2002 art 3(2)) — one partner's status brings the whole joint tariff down.

Payment. The fee is paid in one instalment to the burgemeester, the Governor, the Minister or the head of post depending on where you file, and the application is set aside without being handled if payment does not arrive within six weeks of receipt (BON 2002 arts 5(5) and 6). No fee is due from a person treated as a Dutch national under the Wet betreffende de positie van Molukkers. The Minister may waive payment for a minor filing independently, for a person wrongly treated as Dutch for over a year through official error, and on grounds of state interest or merit — but not where the error flowed from the applicant's own fraud or carelessness (BON 2002 art 4).

No separate statutory charge exists for the ceremony. Whether individual Dutch municipalities levy a local charge around it is not established.

Dutch nationality is a Kingdom affair governed by the Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap (RWN), consolidated text in force since 1 October 2023 with no amendment since. The grant is by Royal Decree on the Minister's proposal (RWN art 7(1)).

The conditions each applicant must satisfy are in RWN art 8(1): admission and principal residence for five years (art 8(1)(c)), no objection to continued indefinite residence (art 8(1)(b)), integration at a level fixed by decree (art 8(1)(d)) and willingness to make the declaration of solidarity (art 8(1)(e)), whose fixed wording is in art 23(2).

The family-specific provisions are these. RWN art 8(2) disapplies the residence condition entirely for a person who has for at least three years been the spouse of and cohabits with a Dutch national, and also for a former Dutch national and for a person adopted as an adult in the Kingdom. RWN art 8(4) sets a three-year period for an unmarried person who has cohabited continuously for at least three years in a durable relationship with an unmarried Dutch national. RWN art 8(3) sets a two-year period where admission and principal residence in the Kingdom's territories total at least ten years. Three-year periods also attach to applications under art 8(5) and to art 11(3), (4) and (5).

Co-naturalisation of children is in RWN art 11: art 11(1) is the principal medeverlening provision, with art 11(2), (3) and (7) covering related situations and art 11(4) covering subsequent inclusion after the parent's naturalisation. Art 11(5) covers an adult child applying independently, which is not co-naturalisation and does not carry its reliefs.

Renunciation is governed by RWN art 9(1)(b), subject to four statutory exemptions in art 9(3)(a)-(d), of which art 9(3)(c) — married to a Dutch national — is the one that most often applies here. Refusal on conduct grounds is under art 9(1)(a). The decision period is art 9(4).

The integration level is fixed at CEFR A2 by the Besluit naturalisatietoets, arts 3(1)(h)(2) and 5(1), in force since 26 May 2022. The procedural regime, including the handover mechanics on which the whole family depends, is in the Besluit verkrijging en verlies Nederlanderschap, in force since 1 March 2017, particularly arts 60b(1), 60b(3) and 60b(11). Fees derive from the Besluit optie- en naturalisatiegelden 2002, with the joint tariff in art 3(3) and the per-child tariff in art 3(4). The Handleiding Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap 2003, in force since 1 July 2026, is the binding policy manual.

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The principal applicant's absence blocks the children. If the principal applicant does not appear at the ceremony, the extracts for co-naturalising minors are not handed over either, even though the children are present. Because a decision only takes effect for a named person on handover of that person's extract, nothing vests for anyone. This is the single most consequential trap on this route.

And the consequence is not merely delay. If an extract is not handed over within one year of the date the Royal Decree bears, the decree lapses by operation of law for that person. They are not Dutch and must apply again. No objection or appeal lies against the lapse, because it happens automatically. Practice allows three summonses, the third by registered post, and where the municipality failed to send three invitations within the year the decree is treated as handed over in time.

A child who turns 18 between the decree and the ceremony is safe. Because the decree backdates to the day it bears once handed over, a new fact arising between the decision and the notification does not reopen the assessment. Someone registered as a minor who reaches majority in that interval is expressly not re-tested against the conditions. The same principle means a person who acts against public order in that interval nevertheless acquires Dutch nationality.

Death between the decree date and the ceremony is also covered. A person who dies on or after the date the decree bears still becomes Dutch once the decree is handed to, or made known to, an interested party.

Until handover, immigration obligations continue. Between the decree and the ceremony you are not yet Dutch and must continue to meet your residence obligations — though failing to do so has no effect on the handover itself.

Marriage removes the residence condition but not the language requirement. RWN art 8(2) disapplies the residence period for a spouse of three years cohabiting with a Dutch national, and RWN art 9(3)(c) removes the renunciation duty for a person married to a Dutch national. Neither touches the naturalisation test at CEFR A2, and neither touches the conduct requirement.

A second marriage must be ended first. Where the documents disclose a marriage to another spouse, that marriage must have been dissolved before Dutch nationality is granted.

An adult child is not a co-applicant. An application by an adult child runs under RWN art 11(5), attracts a full tariff, and does not carry the minors' passport exemption.

Caribbean language credentials do not travel. A certificate annotated for English or Papiamentu is recognised only on the islands where that language is current alongside Dutch (Besluit naturalisatietoets art 5(3)) — a real risk for families who move between Bonaire, Aruba and Curacao on the one hand and Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius and Saba on the other. Residence time follows the family across the whole Kingdom; the test credential does not.

Verified as in force on 25 July 2026:

• Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap (RWN), in force since 1 October 2023 — art 7(1) grant by Royal Decree, art 8(1) conditions, art 8(2) disapplication of the residence condition for three-year spouses, art 8(3) and (4) reduced terms, art 9(1)(a) conduct, art 9(1)(b) renunciation and art 9(3)(c) the exemption for a spouse of a Dutch national, art 9(4) decision period, art 11 co-naturalisation of children, art 23(2) the declaration of solidarity. https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0003738/2023-10-01
• Besluit verkrijging en verlies Nederlanderschap (BVVN), in force since 1 March 2017 — art 2 filing authorities, art 3 filing in person, arts 60b(1) and 60b(3) when a decision takes effect and the sequencing lock on the declaration of solidarity, arts 60b(2) and 60b(7) the summons and handover deadlines, art 60b(11) the one-year lapse. https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0013605
• Besluit naturalisatietoets, in force since 26 May 2022 — the CEFR A2 level in arts 3(1)(h)(2) and 5(1), and the territorial limits on Caribbean certificates in art 5(3). https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0013604
• Besluit optie- en naturalisatiegelden 2002 — art 3(2) reduced tariff, art 3(3) joint tariff, art 3(4) per-child tariff, art 4 waivers, arts 5-6 payment and the six-week rule. The consolidated text prints 2011 amounts and must never be cited for a current fee. https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0013782
• Besluit WBN 2025/3, Stcrt. 2025, 31825 of 19 September 2025 (European Netherlands); WBN-A 2025/3, Stcrt. 2025, 31841 (Aruba); WBN-CM 2025/3, Stcrt. 2025, 31847 (Curacao and Sint Maarten); WBN-BES 2025/3, Stcrt. 2025, 31842 (Caribbean Netherlands) — all in force 1 January 2026.
• Handleiding Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap 2003, in force since 1 July 2026 — the family civil-status document set and its polygamy rationale, the minors' passport exemption of 26 October 2015 and its scope, the group effect of non-attendance at the ceremony, the retroactivity of the decree and its consequences, and the conduct evidence and rehabilitation period. https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBW33099
• Rijksoverheid, on the naturalisation ceremony, accessed 25 July 2026 — attendance compulsory from age 16.