Appointment

At the Rotterdam Expat Centre you can book an appointment to register with the municipality to receive a BSN.  And you can make an appointment with the IND to collect your residence permit,  and/or to provide your biometrical information. This service is called the One-Stop-Shop.

NB At the Rotterdam Expat Centre you can only register in the municipalities of Rotterdam or Schiedam, if you have an address in another municipality, please schedule an appointment at your respective city hall. The municipalities of Capelle aan den IJssel and Vlaardingen are not part of Rotterdam

Please note that you cannot register at the Rotterdam Expat Centre as a Non-Resident (RNI), please click here if you want to register as a non-resident.

Eligibility

Please ensure that you are eligible to schedule an appointment at the Rotterdam Expat Centre. Click here to see a full list of the groups that can make use of the one-stop-shop (also visible on the next page). If you do not fall under one of these groups, please schedule an appointment at city hall.

Your appointment at the Rotterdam Expat Centre can be cancelled by us if you do not fall under our target groups.

Necessary documents

You need to print out and bring a number of documents to your appointment. You can find more information on what documents are necessary in your case on our webpage about long term municipal registration.

Registration Schiedam

If you are going to live in Schiedam and wish to register at Rotterdam Expat Centre and you fall under the target groups, you can book an appointment with us on a Monday afternoon. To do so, please fill out this form.

If you are going to live in Schiedam your appointment will be cancelled if you use the green buttons to make an appointment instead of filling in the form mentioned above.

The following buttons will take you to the appointment page depending on what type of appointment you require. Please read carefully which types of services you need.