{
  "country": {
    "code": "NL",
    "name": "Netherlands"
  },
  "route": {
    "id": "nl-gvva",
    "name": "Single permit for paid employment (GVVA)",
    "kind": "res-work",
    "summary": "One permit combining residence and work, for ordinary paid employment in the Netherlands lasting more than 90 days. The employer normally applies, and the immigration service asks the employee insurance agency whether the work-permit conditions are met.",
    "info_url": "https://ind.nl/en/residence-permits/work/single-permit-gvva",
    "scope": {
      "value": "rules-quoted-nothing-asked",
      "reason": "This route is not scored, and nothing below asks you anything. The statute makes the permit refusable if there is priority supply on the Dutch labour market for the job, if the vacancy was not reported to the employee insurance agency at least five weeks before the application, or if your employer cannot show enough effort to fill it from that supply — and the agency decides for itself whether the work could have been done from the EU or the wider European Economic Area. Those are facts about your employer's search and somebody else's reading of it, so we quote them, date them, and offer you no verdict.",
      "not_asked": [
        "refused-where-there-is-priority-supply",
        "your-employer-searches-europe-for-three-months",
        "the-vacancy-is-reported-five-weeks-before",
        "the-agency-decides-whether-europe-could-do-it",
        "your-employer-explains-the-selection",
        "the-four-general-conditions",
        "no-labour-law-fine-in-five-years",
        "over-ninety-days-it-is-this-permit",
        "the-highly-skilled-migrant-permit-escapes-it",
        "a-permit-that-already-allows-free-work",
        "a-search-you-cannot-see-and-cannot-declare"
      ]
    },
    "criteria": [],
    "statements": [
      {
        "id": "refused-where-there-is-priority-supply",
        "kind": "precondition",
        "text": "The permit must be refused where there is priority supply on the labour market for the job, where the vacancy was not reported to the employee insurance agency at least five weeks before the application, or where your employer cannot show sufficient effort to fill it from that supply.",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0007149",
          "quote": "Onze Minister weigert een tewerkstellingsvergunning of Onze Minister van Veiligheid en Justitie weigert een gecombineerde vergunning: a. indien voor de desbetreffende arbeidsplaats prioriteitgenietend aanbod op de arbeidsmarkt aanwezig is; b. indien het een arbeidsplaats betreft waarvan de beschikbaarheid niet ten minste vijf weken voor het indienen van de aanvraag aan het Uitvoeringsinstituut werknemersverzekeringen is gemeld; c. indien de werkgever niet kan aantonen voldoende inspanningen te hebben gepleegd de arbeidsplaats door prioriteitgenietend aanbod op de arbeidsmarkt te vervullen:",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-10",
          "legal_basis": "Wet arbeid vreemdelingen, art. 8 lid 1 (consolidated text, wetten.overheid.nl)",
          "history": []
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "your-employer-searches-europe-for-three-months",
        "kind": "precondition",
        "text": "Your employer must first spend at least three months trying to find a suitable candidate in the EU, the European Economic Area or Switzerland, searching widely.",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.uwv.nl/nl/werkvergunning/reguliere-arbeidsplaats",
          "quote": "De werkgever moet eerst minimaal 3 maanden een geschikte kandidaat proberen te vinden in de EU/EER of Zwitserland. De werkgever zoekt uitgebreid. Denk aan internet, (internationale) uitzendbureaus en het plaatsen van advertenties.",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-10",
          "legal_basis": "UWV — Werkvergunning reguliere arbeidsplaats",
          "history": []
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "the-vacancy-is-reported-five-weeks-before",
        "kind": "precondition",
        "text": "The vacancy must be reported to the employee insurance agency at least five weeks before the work permit is applied for.",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.uwv.nl/nl/werkvergunning/reguliere-arbeidsplaats",
          "quote": "De werkgever meldt de vacature minimaal 5 weken voor de aanvraag van de werkvergunning bij UWV.",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-10",
          "legal_basis": "UWV — Werkvergunning reguliere arbeidsplaats",
          "history": []
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "the-agency-decides-whether-europe-could-do-it",
        "kind": "caveat",
        "text": "The employee insurance agency says plainly that it is the one that checks whether the work could be done by a worker from the EU, the European Economic Area or Switzerland.",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.uwv.nl/nl/werkvergunning/reguliere-arbeidsplaats",
          "quote": "Wij controleren of het werk gedaan kan worden door een werknemer uit de EU/EER of Zwitserland.",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-10",
          "legal_basis": "UWV — Werkvergunning reguliere arbeidsplaats",
          "history": []
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "your-employer-explains-the-selection",
        "kind": "precondition",
        "text": "An account your employer must send in of how the selection went: how many candidates answered, and which of the requirements each of them did and did not meet.",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.uwv.nl/nl/werkvergunning/reguliere-arbeidsplaats",
          "quote": "Uitleg over de selectieprocedure (hoeveel kandidaten hebben gereageerd, aan welke eisen voldeden zij wel en niet).",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-10",
          "legal_basis": "UWV — Werkvergunning reguliere arbeidsplaats",
          "history": []
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "the-four-general-conditions",
        "kind": "precondition",
        "text": "Four general conditions run under every work permit: you hold a valid residence permit, your employer keeps to the terms of employment, your employer has not breached labour law, and your employer arranges a safe and clean place for you to live.",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.uwv.nl/nl/werkvergunning/twv-voorwaarden",
          "quote": "Er zijn 4 algemene voorwaarden voor een TWV: De buitenlandse werknemer heeft een geldige verblijfsvergunning. De werkgever houdt zich aan de arbeidsvoorwaarden. De werkgever heeft de arbeidswetgeving niet overtreden. De werkgever regelt voor de buitenlandse werknemer een veilige en schone plek om te wonen.",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-10",
          "legal_basis": "UWV — Voorwaarden tewerkstellingsvergunning",
          "history": []
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "no-labour-law-fine-in-five-years",
        "kind": "precondition",
        "text": "Your employer must not have been fined for breaching labour law in the five years before the application.",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.uwv.nl/nl/werkvergunning/twv-voorwaarden",
          "quote": "De werkgever heeft in de 5 jaar voor de aanvraag geen boete gehad voor overtreding van de arbeidswetgeving.",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-10",
          "legal_basis": "UWV — Voorwaarden tewerkstellingsvergunning, Arbeidswetgeving",
          "history": []
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "over-ninety-days-it-is-this-permit",
        "kind": "caveat",
        "text": "Under 90 days the instrument is a work permit on its own; beyond 90 days it is this combined one.",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.uwv.nl/nl/werkvergunning/reguliere-arbeidsplaats",
          "quote": "De werkgever vraagt een TWV aan als de werknemer maximaal 90 dagen in Nederland werkt. Als de werknemer langer dan 90 dagen in Nederland werkt vraagt de werkgever een GVVA aan.",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-10",
          "legal_basis": "UWV — Werkvergunning reguliere arbeidsplaats",
          "history": []
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "the-highly-skilled-migrant-permit-escapes-it",
        "kind": "caveat",
        "text": "A highly skilled migrant coming to the Netherlands for more than 90 days escapes all of this: for that route the employer applies for no work permit at all.",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.uwv.nl/nl/werkvergunning/wanneer-geen-werkvergunning",
          "quote": "Voor een kennismigrant van buiten de EU/EER of Zwitserland die langer dan 90 dagen in Nederland komt werken, hoeft de werkgever geen werkvergunning aan te vragen.",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-10",
          "legal_basis": "UWV — Wanneer geen werkvergunning nodig in Nederland",
          "history": []
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "a-permit-that-already-allows-free-work",
        "kind": "caveat",
        "text": "Anyone whose Dutch residence permit already carries the note that work is freely allowed needs no work permit either.",
        "source": {
          "source_url": "https://www.uwv.nl/nl/werkvergunning/wanneer-geen-werkvergunning",
          "quote": "Werknemers met de aantekening ‘arbeid is vrij toegestaan’ hebben geen werkvergunning nodig.",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-10",
          "legal_basis": "UWV — Wanneer geen werkvergunning nodig in Nederland",
          "history": []
        }
      }
    ],
    "readings": [
      {
        "id": "a-search-you-cannot-see-and-cannot-declare",
        "text": "Two of the three grounds for refusing this permit are about how hard your employer looked and what the agency made of it. Neither is a fact about you, and neither is knowable before the application is filed — so there is nothing here we could put to you as a question."
      }
    ]
  },
  "page": "https://permitrulebook.com/netherlands/single-permit-for-paid-employment/",
  "dataset_version": "2026.09.18",
  "schema_version": "0.8.2",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
  "source": "https://github.com/OytunOnal/permit-rulebook-data",
  "rules_read": "2026-09-17"
}