Passport

What to do?

• You apply for a passport in person at the municipality.
• When you apply for a passport for your child, bring your child with you.
• Your passport will include your fingerprints. Health for clean fingers.
• Children under 12 do not need to be fingerprinted.
• You pick up your passport in person.
• When you pick up a passport for your child, bring your child with you.
• If you want to keep your old passport, you must specifically ask for it. Otherwise, your old passport will be destroyed.

Physical or intellectual disability

If a physical or mental disability prevents you from applying for a passport in person, a municipality employee may come to you. If in doubt, the municipality will ask you for a medical certificate.

If a temporary physical disability prevents you from getting fingerprinted, you will get a passport that is valid for 1 year. If your disability is permanent, you will get a passport that is valid for 10 years.

Passport lost or stolen

• If your passport is lost or stolen in the Netherlands, you can immediately apply for a new passport. With this application, you sign a Declaration of Loss. You do not have to report it to the police.
• If you have insurance against theft, reporting it to the police is recommended, however.
• If you need to travel immediately, you can request an emergency passport from the Royal Military Police.
• If you find your old passport, you are required to turn it in to the municipality. This is because this passport is no longer valid.
• If you lose your passport abroad, report it to the local police. Ask for written proof of this. You will need this for your insurance. In the Netherlands you do not have to report it to the Dutch police.
• Report to the Dutch embassy or consulate that your passport has been lost or stolen and request an emergency passport.
• With the foreign record, you can apply for a new passport at the municipality.

Apply for passport

You can apply for a passport in 2 ways. Online or at the town hall.

1 Online application

Quickly arrange your application for a passport? You can if you apply and pay for your application online in advance. Even if your passport has been lost or stolen. Reporting the loss can also be done online through our website. For an online application for a passport you need DigiD. 

Children cannot apply for a passport through the DigiD of the parent(s). To do so, they must have their own DigiD. 

After your online passport application, you will also make an appointment online application and come in person. Here you will submit your passport photo, sign the application and bring any passports and identity cards you still have, even if they have expired. Children themselves must also be present when applying for a travel document. You can pick up your passport a week later. You cannot make an urgent application online.

Online passport application    +     Appointment online request

2 Application at city hall

You can choose to make the application at the town hall. Then you make an appointment to do so at the municipality. You apply for a passport in person at the municipality. Children must also be present when applying for a travel document. After about a week you can pick up your passport.

Town hall appointment

 Make an appointment an appointment by phone by calling 14 045

What do I need?

• A good-looking passport photo that
  • is not older than 6 months at the time of application and
  • meets passport photo requirements.
• All passports and identity cards you still have, even if they have expired.
• When you apply for a second passport, bring proof that you need the second passport.
• If your passport was lost or stolen abroad, take the foreign police report with you.
• Debit card or cash. You pay directly at the time of application.

Children up to 18 years of age

• Written consent from both parents or the person with custody of the child. Use the form provided by the municipality for this purpose. You can also both sign on the spot, in which case you do not need to bring a completed form.
• (Copy of) the proof of identity of both parents or the person with custody of the child.
• Children must be present in person when applying for and collecting their passports.
• At least one parent or guardian must be present at the time of application.
• A good-looking passport photo not older than 6 months at the time of application. This passport photo meets the passport photo requirements.
• All passports and ID cards you still have of your child, even if they have expired.
• Debit card or cash. You pay directly at the time of application.

Grant digital permission via DigiD

The consent of both parents or the person with custody of the child can also arrange this consent digitally via DigiD instead of the consent form.

Digital consent via DigiD.

What does it cost? 

How long does it take?

You can pick up your passport after 6 working days. If you made an urgent application in the morning, you can pick up your passport the next working day. It is important that you come to collect your travel document yourself. Please note! Children must also be present when picking up their travel document.

If you no longer have your old passport and you have no other proof of identity, the municipality conducts research to determine your identity. As a result, it may take longer for you to get your passport.

Additional information

• If you are not a Dutch national, you may be eligible for a Refugee Passport or an Alien Passport.
• If you are under guardianship, you need permission from the guardian to apply for a passport.
• If you change your name, you must apply for a new passport.
• If you change gender, you must apply for a new passport.

Applying from abroad

Dutch citizens living abroad can obtain a passport from a large number of Dutch representations, such as consulates and embassies. Or at one of the border municipalities in the Netherlands. Such an application involves many different documents.

The tool at nederlandwereldwijd.nl makes it easier to apply for a passport abroad or at a border municipality. Thanks to the tool, you can see exactly which documents you need and make a personal checklist online. This will save you a lot of time.