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Marriage or Relationship

Category Form Fee Validity
Marriage or relationship Refer to Annexure-C Refer to Annexure-B See details below.

When the applicant wants to rejoin his/her spouse or partner in the Netherlands, this is called family reunification. Means the applicant and his/her spouse in Netherlands were already a family when they both lived in India together.
When the applicant wants to live with his/her spouse or partner in the Netherlands, this is called establishing a family. Meaning thereby that when the applicant and his/her spouse or partner started a relationship or got married, one of the spouse or partner was living in the Netherlands, and the other partner or spouse was living in India.

Conditions
Applicant must be married and the marriage has been registered in the Netherlands, in the municipal personal records database or in India OR
The Indian applicant and his/her partner in Netherlands are both unmarried and both are able to prove this with official legalised documents.
In case of relationship, both must be 21 years or older.
In case of family reunification, both must be 18 years or older.
Indian applicant must not be a danger to public.
Indian applicant must live with his/her partner or spouse as soon as he/she arrive in the Netherlands, and both must intend to run a joint household and both must register themselves at the same address.
The Netherlands partner or spouse must have sufficient Income to support himself/herself and the spouse/partner.

Documents Required
If applicant is an unmarried partner to the Netherlands resident:
Copy of the applicants passport
Proof of the Netherlands partner/ spouse's sufficient income.
Copy of the details from the Municipal Personal Records
Database (GBA) of the Netherlands partner showing the family composition which is not older than 6 months ­(Original)
Copy of identity papers in case spouse/partner is a Dutch national or copy of the residence permit or copy of the passport showing the residence permit.
Appendix "Guarantor's declaration" in the application form should be completed and signed by the Netherlands partner.
Unmarried status declaration issued in Netherlands to the Netherlands partner (if partner is not Dutch national). Unmarried status declaration issued in India to the Indian applicant.

If applicant is a spouse or is registered under Civil Partnership.
Copy of the applicants passport.
Proof of the Netherlands Sponsor's sufficient income.
Copy of the details from the Municipal Personal Records Database (GBA) of the Netherlands Sponsor showing the family composition which is not older than 6 months ­original
Copy of identity papers in case sponsor is a Dutch citizen or copy of the residence permit or copy of passport showing the residence permit.
If married: marriage certificate.
If in civil partnership: Extract of registered partnership from the municipal personal records database (GBA). If registered partnership was concluded in India: Certificate of registered partnership.

Notes: 1. When the applicant applies for a residence permit after reaching Netherlands he/ she will be examined for tuberculosis.
2. The residence permit is, in principle, issued for 1 year.
3. Application for extension of the residence permit can be made after the applicant is assessed by the IND. In general, residence permits are extended for a period of 5 years, but for a period that is 1 month shorter than the validity of the applicants passport.
4. The fee for extension of the residence permit is EURO 285.
5. To know the extent of sufficient income refer to Annexure Holland-II or Annexure-A

6. Continued residence:
After 3 years in a relationship or marriage:
Once the applicant has obtained a residence permit for a period of 3 years on the basis of marriage with a Dutch national or a person who has a non-temporary right of residence in the Netherlands, he/ she will be eligible for an independent residence permit on the basis of continued residence. If he/ she have complied with the conditions applicable for the residence permit for a period of 3 years and no general grounds for rejection exist (such as danger to public) he/ she will be eligible for a residence permit for continued residence. A residence permit will be granted regardless of whether or not his/her relationship or marriage has ended, and regardless of whether or not he/ she have sufficient means of existence.
After the death of the partner:
The Indian applicant after obtaining the residence permit, can still get a further residence permit even after the death of his/her partner provided:
partner was either a Dutch national or had a non-temporary right of residence in the Netherlands. The surviving partners has never provided any incorrect information to the authorities regarding his/her stay in the Netherlands.
The surviving partner has never changed his/her principal place of residence outside the Netherlands.
When the relationship ends in less than 3 years:
In case where the relationship or marriage ends before (this is applicable only to women) the women applicant completes 3 years on her residence permit, she is still eligible for continued residence if there is a combination of compelling reasons of a humanitarian nature. Compelling reasons of a humanitarian nature may include:
The position of unmarried women in India.
The social position of women in India.
The possibility of her support in India.
The support provided by her to her children born in the Netherlands or receiving education in the Netherlands.
Evidence of subjection to (sexual) violence within her family in India.
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