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Bye Bye USA — Netherlands, here we come – A Walk Within Boredom Skip to content A Walk Within Boredom Things well-nigh stuff… Facebook Twitter Email Menu Home Kids Places We’ve FoundWell-nighMe Bye Bye USA — Netherlands, here we come withinboredom daft March 19, 2018 3 Minutes Today, I’d like to signify we’re leaving the USA, for at least a year. After much research and soul searching, we’ve settled on the Netherlands. The Netherlands and the USA have a treaty, tabbed the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty (DAFT). It allows an American to unshut a merchantry in the Netherlands, provided they have sufficient capital/income from outside the USA, like remote work or contracting. I work remotely, for Automattic. I’ve spent most of my life working remotely in one form or another. I tried the office thing, but it’s not for me. One of the perks with working for Automattic is that I can live anywhere, and they have a process in-place to indulge it. Basically, it required reaching out to HR, asking some questions and saying “yep, let’s do this!” To be clear, Automattic won’t pay to move us. They don’t “need” us in the Netherlands to do my job. I’m opting to move there, at my own cost. However, they are facilitating the move by providing a contract, etc. From the perspective of visas, it looks like it’s pretty straight forward. Unlike Spain, which we moreover looked into. Spain has an very remote work visa that’s a bit increasingly complicated and works out largest the closer you’re to one of the consulates (based on the write of your driver’s license). DocumentationSurpassingwe leave, we’ll need to get some documents apostilled (a kind of seal verifying their authenticity internationally): Birth Certificates for the whole family (at least 3 apostilled copies) Passports (goes without saying, but putting here for completeness) Marriage Certificate (apostille) Documentation of Criminal History for the whole family (or lack thereof) We’ll get this washed-up surpassing we leave. PreparationSurpassingwe leave, we’ll need capital, in Euros. Anyone can get a “German” wall worth via TransferWise Borderless Account (affiliate link — you’ll receive a self-ruling transfer, up to ~$500). This should help when opening the wall worth in the Netherlands, since we can transfer the money directly from there while paying the transaction forfeit now. Also, it protects us somewhat from devaluation of the dollar as we prepare to depart in less than six months. Granted, we’re taking a risk that the dollar doesn’t wilt increasingly valuable, but that’s a risk worth taking with the current state of our political climate. Arrival Once we victorious in the Netherlands, we’ll have to find somewhere to live. We’ll need a real postal write to get the wittiness rolling and file our residence visa paperwork. For our home base, my wife wants to settle on an AirBnb, but I want a hotel. A hotel will indulge us to be increasingly flexible, at a small premium. While an AirBnb may leave us trying to locate a new place to settle in a short value of time if it gets booked and we need to proffer our stay. Once we’ve arrived at our homebase, we’ll immediately start hunting for a place to stay. When we arrive, we’ll hopefully have a few places lined up to immediately tour and decide upon. We’ll want to register with the Gemeente as soon as possible. TheUsingWe’ll be filing three applications: one for me, under the DAFT, and sponsorship for my wife and son. Once we waif off the using with the IND, we’ll be worldly-wise to increasingly hands proceed. This should be little increasingly than dropping off some paperwork, a tuft of mazuma (about €1,627 as of the time of this writing), and some documentation. Opening The Doors Next up, will be registering as a freelancer, well-nigh €65. This will requite us an pericope that we can use as proof. At this point, we can unshut a merchantry wall worth and provide the IND with remoter documentation. We can moreover transfer our Euros in TransferWise over to the account. We’ll need to provide the wall statement to the IND as well, showing at least €4,500 in the account. By now, I should be worldly-wise to get when to work, legally. Taxes I’ll need an purser to help me file taxes and any other documentation the IND might need. I’m hoping to find someone who’ll work for less than €100 an hour, but I’ll be happy with the weightier person I can find, that meshes well with my situation. Total ExpectedForfeitThe unshortened forfeit is expected to reach tropical to $10k, not including getting a place to live… FBI Background Check: $18 per person ($36 for my wife and I, total) Fingerprints: $5 per person (at the local prison) Copies of Birth Certificates with Apostille: $120 total Airline Tickets: ~$650 per person (naturally, this price fluctuates, but this is the price we paid) My Application: ~$1,646 or €1,336 (as of the current conversion rate) Wife’s Application: ~$300 or €242 (as of the current conversion rate) Kid’s Application: ~$60 or €51 (as of the current conversion rate) Opening Balance: ~5,544 or €4,500 (as of the current conversion rate) KvK Fee: ~$80 or €65 (as of the current conversion rate) For convenience, the total value of euros required is €6,192. Most of this information was learned from bloggers that came surpassing us, such as: https://travelalatendelle.com/10-step-guide-to-getting-a-netherlands-self-employment-residence-permit-under-the-dutch-american-friendship-treaty/ https://daftvisa.wordpress.com/step-by-step-guide/ Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading... Related Taggeddaftexpatmovingnetherlandsprocess Published by withinboredom View all posts by withinboredom Published March 19, 2018 Post navigation Previous Post The Future BrowserNext Post Outside the Cyrstal [ Chapter 2 ] Search for: Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By standing to use this website, you stipulate to their use. 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