To register at the BRP and receive your BSN, you need to make an appointment at your resident municipality in the Netherlands. Most municipalities allow making an appointment online: e.g. AmsterdamDelft, Den Haag, EindhovenGroningen, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Utrecht.

Normally, you will only receive your BSN if you already have a residential address in the Netherlands. If you already arranged your housing in the Netherlands, you need to bring the following documents to the appointment:

  • Valid travel document (identity card or passport, no driving licence);
  • Residence permit (if applicable);
  • Original documents from abroad (e.g. certificate of birth and marriage, registered partnership or divorce if applicable);
  • Rental contract or contract of sale.

If you did not arrange your housing in the Netherlands yet, there are other possibilities. You are allowed to register with a postal address of your employer or someone you know in the Netherlands. To do so make sure you have written consent from the postal addressee, e.g. the primary occupant of the postal address. The consent needs to include date and place of birth, nationality and the data of the addressee.

If you want to register at the address of your employer or someone you know, you need to bring:

  • Valid travel document (identity card or passport, no driving licence);
  • Residence permit (if applicable);
  • Original documents from abroad (see above);
  • Signed written consent from the postal addressee, e.g. the primary occupant of the postal address. The consent needs to include date and place of birth, nationality and the data of the addressee,
  • and an identity card (or a copy thereof) from the postal addressee.

Read more about this on the website of the Dutch government (website only in Dutch).

Make sure that you register under your permanent address as soon as you signed your rental contract.

Some municipalities accept certified copies of your official documents. However, to be safe, it’s always better to bring the original document if possible. A regular copy won’t be enough!

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