Having a child in the Netherlands

Registration, nationality and passport of your child.

You register a birth within three days at the municipality where the child was born. Pregnancy and birth in the Netherlands are supervised by a midwife, and after the birth a maternity nurse comes to your home for a week (kraamzorg); arrange this early in the pregnancy.

A child does not become Dutch by being born in the Netherlands: nationality follows that of the parents. If one of the parents is an Indian citizen, you register the birth at the Indian embassy to establish Indian nationality and apply for a passport; a time limit applies. The child also needs its own residence permit, which you request from the IND.

Useful links

• Government.nl government.nl
  Registering a birth, in English.
• Embassy of India, The Hague indianembassynetherlands.gov.in
  Birth registration and first passport.
• IND ind.nl
  Residence permit for a child born in the Netherlands.