Fees for consular services
The Foreign Ministry in The Hague and Dutch missions abroad provide a variety of consular services to Dutch and foreign nationals. Her is an overview of the costs per service as of February 2009.
Service | rate |
Issuing copies of/extracts from deeds entered in the civil register | €30 |
Marriage ceremony | €433 |
Drawing up a notarial deed | €265 |
Issuing copies of/extracts from notarial deeds | €30 |
Voluntary jurisdiction procedures | €145 per hour |
Hearing a witness or questioning an expert in civil proceedings by order of the court | €145 per hour |
Drawing up a laissez-passer for a body or a certificate to accompany an urn | €60 |
Drawing up a consular declaration regarding personal data constituting evidence | €30 |
Mediating in efforts to solve financial problems connected with travelling/living abroad | €50 |
Providing an advance from public funds | €50 |
Mediating in efforts to establish that a person has come to no harm | €120 per hour |
Mediating in finding a person's address/ establishing their whereabouts | mediating: €52.50 |
investigating: €105 per hour | |
Mediating in the verification of a document or personal data | by a consular official: €78 |
together with an agent: €248 | |
Legalising a document | at Ministry HQ: €10 |
at the mission (if the document has been drawn up in its district): €26.25 | |
Mediating in the legalisation of a document | at Ministry HQ: €36.25 |
at a mission: €131 | |
Legalising a signature | €26.25 |
Mediation by a mission in obtaining a document | €103 |
Processing an application for a 'MVV' visa (authorisation for temporary stay = longer than 3 months) | see website www.ind.nl |
return visa | €40 |
handling of an application for other kind of visa | €60 (plus €1,- per person for a collective visa)* |
extension of a travelvisa for maximum 1 month | €25 |
extension of a travelvisa for maximum 3 months | €30 |
extension visa collective passport/list | €30 (plus €1,- per person) |
change transit visa for 1 or more journeys | €35 + €1,- per person (in case of collective visa) |
Mediating in the sitting of an exam | €157 for each exam |
Mediating in connection with a medical examination | €100 |
* Visa applicants with the nationality of a country with which the European Union has entered or will enter into a visa facilitation agreement (Albania, Bosnia, Former Yugoslav Republic Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Ukraine, Russia and Serbia) will pay EUR 35,-.