Chapter 4
in forceBorder control, supervision and implementation
Section 1
Border control
Border control as referred to in Article 46 of the Act shall be exercised with a view to the entry into and exit from the Netherlands of persons via…
In the interest of border control, border crossing points shall be established at the external borders.
Crossing the external border is permitted only through the border crossing points designated pursuant to Article 4.2, paragraph 2, during the opening…
The foreign national who enters the Netherlands is obliged, upon request, to provide to an officer charged with border control:
Any person who is at or near a location where a border crossing point is established shall comply with the instructions given there by the officials…
The Dutch national who enters or leaves the Netherlands shall, upon request, show and hand over to an official charged with border control the travel…
The driver of a vehicle shall, of his own motion, notify an official charged with border surveillance of the presence in his vehicle of foreign…
The master of a vessel shall, upon request, provide the cooperation to an officer charged with border surveillance which is necessary to enable this…
Article 4.8 shall apply mutatis mutandis to masters of vessels other than seagoing vessels.
The information referred to in Annex VI, points 3.1.2, 3.1.4, 3.1.5 and 3.2.1 of the Schengen Borders Code, shall be provided by electronic means in…
The master shall receive, in a manner to be determined by ministerial regulation, from the head of the border crossing point an acknowledgement of…
The timely notification of departure, as referred to in point 3.1.5. of Annex VI of the Schengen Borders Code, shall be made at the moment that the…
Articles 4.11 through 4.13 shall not apply to masters of sea-going vessels who sail through the Dutch territorial sea without taking a berth in a…
The aircraft commander shall provide in duplicate to an officer in charge of border control the general declaration referred to in Annex VI, point…
The request to the commander of an aircraft, as referred to in Article 51, paragraph 3, of the Act, shall be made through the mediation of air…
Section 2
Application of powers of officials
The police commissioner shall periodically provide at least the following data to Our Minister:
The power, referred to in Article 50, paragraph 1, of the Act, to stop persons after crossing the border for the purpose of establishing their…
If there are concrete indications that there is a significant increase in illegal stay after border crossing, or if there are concrete indications…
The foreign national who, pursuant to Article 50, second or third paragraph, or Article 50a, first paragraph, of the Act, has been transferred to a…
A decision of the commander of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (Koninklijke marechaussee) or the chief of police, taken pursuant to Article 50…
If the commander of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee or the chief of police mandates his power, as referred to in Article 50, fourth paragraph, of…
The following are designated as documents within the meaning of Article 50, paragraph 1, last sentence, of the Act:
The documents referred to in Article 4.21, paragraph 1, under (a) through (d), shall be replaced by Our Minister if:
The officials charged with border control or the officials charged with the supervision of foreign nationals shall, on the basis of Article 52…
In addition to the placement of the entry and exit stamps referred to in Article 11 and Annex IV of the Schengen Borders Code, officials charged with…
The officials charged with border control shall place a notation, as referred to in Article 4.24, paragraph 1, under (a) and (h), in the travel or…
The officials charged with border control shall place a notation in the travel or identity document of a foreign national as referred to in Article…
The officials charged with border control shall place a notation, as referred to in Article 4.24, paragraph 1, under (f), in the travel or identity…
The officials charged with border control shall place a notation in the travel or identity document of a foreign national as referred to in Article…
The officials charged with the supervision of foreign nationals shall make entries in the travel and identity document of a foreign national…
The annotations, referred to in Article 4.29, paragraph 1, under (a), relate to the notification pursuant to Articles 4.47 up to and including 4.51.
The notation, referred to in Article 4.29, paragraph 1, under (e), shall be made if, pursuant to Article 3.1 or Article 10 of the Procedure…
The note referred to in Article 4.29, paragraph 1, under (b), shall indicate the date on which the foreign national changed their place of residence…
The note referred to in Article 4.29, paragraph 1, under (c), shall state the mandatory registration period in accordance with Article 54, paragraph…
The notations, referred to in Article 4.29, paragraph 1, under (e), concern:
The notation referred to in Article 4.29, paragraph 1, under (f), shall be placed if the chief of police or the commander of the Royal Netherlands…
The notation referred to in Article 4.29, paragraph 1, under (j), shall be placed if the chief of police or the commander of the Royal Netherlands…
Models of the annotations, referred to in this Section, may be established by ministerial regulation.
Section 3
Obligations in the context of supervision
The foreign national who is lawfully resident as referred to in Article 8, under (a) to (h) inclusive, of the Act, is obliged, in the event of:
The foreign national shall, upon the demand of Our Minister, provide the data necessary for the application of the provisions of or pursuant to the…
The foreign national who does not have lawful residence shall immediately report his presence in person to the chief of police.
Persons who provide overnight accommodation to a foreign national, whom they know or can reasonably suspect that this foreign national does not…
Employers, of whom it is known to Our Minister that they have employed a foreign national who did not have lawful residence or who was not permitted…
The foreign national who is lawfully resident as referred to in Article 8, under (i), of the Act and who is going to seek employment or perform work…
The foreign national who is lawfully resident as referred to in Article 8, under (a), of the Act and who no longer meets the restriction under which…
The foreign national who is lawfully resident as referred to in Article 8, under (a) to (e) inclusive, or (l), of the Act and whose document, as…
The sponsor who knows or can reasonably suspect that the foreign national, for whom he is the sponsor, no longer meets the restriction under which…
The holder of a fixed-term ordinary residence permit for whose stay no sponsor acts, shall provide Our Minister with data relevant to the application…
The cooperation of the foreign national, as referred to in Article 54, paragraph 1, subparagraph c, of the Act, consists of:
The foreign national who has come to the Netherlands for a stay of longer than 90 days shall, pursuant to Article 54, paragraph 1, subparagraph (d)…
The foreign national who is lawfully resident as referred to in Article 8, under (i), of the Act and who has come to the Netherlands for a stay of…
The foreign national who is the holder of a visa or a document for border crossing in which an endorsement has been made by the authority competent…
The foreign national who has arrived in the Netherlands to seek employment as a seaman on board a seagoing vessel shall report in person to the chief…
The foreigner who is obliged to report periodically to the chief of police, as referred to in Article 54, paragraph 1, under (f), of the Act, is the…
Our Minister shall grant the foreign national the permission referred to in Article 55.0a, paragraph 3, of the Act to temporarily leave an assigned…
Our Minister shall ensure that aliens in the geographical area to which they have been assigned have effective access to their rights under the…
The foreign national shall submit the document, referred to in Article 9 of the Act, in accordance with rules established by Our Minister, to Our…
The official charged with border control or the supervision of foreign nationals may require security from a foreign national who must leave the…
The security deposit, referred to in Article 4.52a, paragraph 3, under (c), shall in any event be returned by Our Minister to the person entitled…
The sponsor shall, in accordance with rules set by ministerial regulation, maintain records containing data relating to: