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Return Visa for Residence Permit HoldersVerified 24 Apr 2026Apply for a Netherlands Entry Visa (Return Visa) if your Dutch long-term residence permit was lost, stolen, or expired while you were abroad. Complete documents, fees, and process.
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Not included in our fee: a flight reservation (from ₹708) and a confirmed hotel booking (₹590 per hotel). Book them separately, only if your visa needs them:
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Guide last reviewed 2026-04-24. Fees, documents and appointment rules can change.
The Netherlands Entry Visa is a specialised short-stay Schengen visa for foreign nationals (non-Dutch) who already hold — or recently held — a valid long-term Dutch residence permit, and whose document was lost, stolen, or expired while they were outside the Schengen area. It allows the holder to re-enter the Netherlands so they can apply for a replacement residence permit at the IND.
What it costs
Paid directly to The Netherlands / VFS — these are not our service fee, and we never mark them up.
Figures per VFS Global, last verified 24 Apr 2026. Fees change without notice — the official page is final.
Fees effective 1 April 2026 as published by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Payment accepted in cash, debit/credit card, or UPI at VFS. All fees (visa + service charge) are non-refundable, regardless of visa outcome. Schengen "low fee" of €35 applies only to citizens of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus under visa facilitation agreements — not applicable to Indian nationals.
Flights · Hotels · Insurance · Itinerary
The Netherlands applies the Schengen rules, so travel insurance is not a nice-to-have — it is a legal condition of the visa.
2 of 4 are compulsory for The Netherlands
Where people slip: Flying into one city and out of another with nothing showing how you travel between them. Officers read the whole route, and an unexplained gap reads as a plan that does not hold together.
Book for ₹708 (+₹472 per family member)Where people slip: Free-cancellation bookings are accepted, but if the entire file is free-cancellation the officer sees a trip nobody has committed to. Some of it should be real spend.
Confirmed hotel booking, ₹590 per hotel: message us firstWhere people slip: Buying cover for the adults and forgetting the children. Every traveller needs their own EUR 30,000, infants included — a real refusal we have seen on a family of four.
What a Schengen policy must showWhere people slip: Spending more nights in another Schengen country than in The Netherlands. That gets a file rejected before it is even assessed.
The letter your itinerary attaches toWe can arrange the flight reservation, the hotel and the itinerary for your The Netherlands file — each sold separately.
We are a B2B travel agency as well as a visa consultancy, working with partners including Riya Travel — so the flight reservation and the confirmed hotel booking both come from us, and you deal with one team. Every booking is a real one under your own name. We do not sell travel insurance: buy the policy directly from an insurer.
None of them is part of our visa fee: each is bought on its own, at the price below, with or without our visa service.
Flight reservation ₹708 (+₹472 per extra family member) · Confirmed hotel booking ₹590 per hotel · Travel itinerary ₹1,499. GST included.
Delivery. Usually within 30 minutes during office hours, Mon–Sat 10:00–18:00 IST. Confirmed hotel bookings are not bought online: message us first on WhatsApp or email info@sureshotvisa.com with the city, dates and travellers.
Tell us your dates — we will say which of these you actually need
What to gather
Having a document isn't the same as presenting it right — that's the part we handle.
Filled ONLINE only.
<10 years old, 2 blank visa pages, valid 3+ months after intended return to the Netherlands, signed.
E.g. a travel ticket or exit stamp in your passport showing you left before the permit expired.
Obtain from the local police wherever the document was lost/stolen.
Your V-number is printed on IND letters and on the back of your residence permit.
A reservation in your name is sufficient — paid ticket not required.
Required · optional / if applicable
7 steps from intake to approval — never as linear as government sites pretend.
If lost/stolen: file a police report immediately
At the location of loss/theft. Required for the application.
Retrieve your V-number
Find it on previous IND letters or on the back of your old residence permit. The IND uses it to verify your identity and residence status.
Complete the online Schengen application form
Fill online, print, sign.
Prepare proof of exit
If permit expired, show a travel ticket or exit stamp proving you left the Schengen area before it expired.
Book a travel reservation back to the Netherlands
A reservation in your name is sufficient.
Book VFS appointment and submit + biometrics
Pay €90 + ₹1,855 VFS service charge.
Re-enter and apply at the IND for a replacement residence permit
Once back in the Netherlands, apply for a replacement residence card at the IND. Note: Indian nationals must take a tuberculosis (TB) test within 3 months of return.
Biometrics and the visit to the visa centre are yours to attend in person — no consultancy can do those for you. How we work
What works
11 levers that flip a borderline case.
What kills cases
Top 3 refusal triggers we see.
Each link opens the official page that issues the form (we never host third-party forms) — download or fill the current version there.
We're actively building per-visa quizzes. For now, the best way to assess your eligibility for Netherlands Entry Visa (Return Visa for Residence Permit Holders) is a 1-on-1 consultation with our team.
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Frequently asked
Only those who already hold — or very recently held — a valid Dutch long-term residence permit that was lost, stolen, or expired during travel abroad. First-time applicants must use the MVV route instead.
Your V-number (alien registration number) is issued by the IND. It appears on IND letters and on the back of your residence permit. It's used to verify your identity and residence status during the Entry Visa application.
Yes. A police report from the location where your permit was lost or stolen is mandatory.
You must justify in writing why you couldn't return in time. Genuine reasons (illness, emergencies) supported by documentation are considered case-by-case.
Yes. An MVV is for people applying fresh to live in the Netherlands. An Entry Visa is for those who already had legal long-term residence and need to return to reinstate it.
Yes. Upon return to the Netherlands, you apply for a replacement residence permit at the IND.
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Reviewed by Sherbir Singh Grewal, SureshotVisa — a government-licensed consultancy (Licence 849/DC/PTA/PLA/LC-3/2024). Verify us.
A strong The Netherlands file clearly explains your travel purpose, funds, and ties to India. We structure and submit everything properly — so your case is presented clearly and professionally.
Our professional fee · GST included
₹4,999GST included
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Everything below — included, nothing extra
Not included in our fee: a flight reservation (from ₹708) and a confirmed hotel booking (₹590 per hotel). Book them separately, only if your visa needs them:
Not sure you qualify? Start with a refundable ₹499 possibility report — an honest Yes / Maybe / No, credited to this fee.
Price is for our consultancy service only and includes 18% GST. No agency can guarantee a visa — the final decision rests with the visa authority.
Your fee, in one glance
Government, VFS, insurance, ticket and hotel costs are separate and charged at cost. Read what each item means, in full.
Before you file
Filed on a guessed checklist, the government fee is gone on a refusal and the refusal follows every future application. Filed after a consultant at our licensed firm has read the papers against each other, the file answers the officer's questions before they are asked. Same The Netherlands rules, different outcome. How we do that is written once, in full, on the method page rather than repeated here.
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Source & Disclaimer
Data on this page is sourced from the official VFS Global The Netherlands website and Embassy of The Netherlands. Last verified 2026-04-24. Always verify with the official embassy before applying — fees and requirements change without notice.
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