I'm up for it on the 30th of this month. Nobody that I know, or my instructor, knows what the new tests are like. But we suspect the reading and listening are a lot like the KNS. Loads of "what should zara and moe do in this common sense social situation". The reading will probably be forms and news articles and the listening will probably be conversations between zara, moe, and people like the police, housing corps, banks, employers, etc. Writing will be pencil and paper and a topic like "you didn't turn your homework in, explain to the teacher why." We'll see what the new test brings at the end of the month.

I believe a new requirement for nationality is proof that you at least minimum wage and you have spent 2 years attending some sort of professional/vocational training or have been working.

Well, with a threat of reporting him to the bar (or the dutch equivilant), he finally got the subpoena sent to the bailiff.

 

He has been told, very clearly, that if due to his delay that if we lose any money that we would have been otherwise awarded had this not gone an extra month, we are holding him personally responsible.

 

Tip to ANYONE with their own house or vehicle. Check your legal insurance to make sure these things are covered or if you have to take out an extra package for it. Our legal insurance would be taking care of this mess instead of having to muck through it ourselves had we known the vehicle legal insurance was seperate. o_O

This post was edited by ldyparadox99 at April 23, 2013 12:27:08 PM CEST

In a nutshell we had to hire a lawyer 2 months ago for a consumer warrenty case (shop is refusing to honor warrenty when he's bound to it under both dutch and EU law and it's far from a 20 euro item...more like a few thousand).

 

He has not done what he was supposed to, and was in our contract, and now he has probably caused us to lose a substantial amount of money due to the delay in getting the process started.  I'm afraid the judge will look at it and say too much time has gone by. ;-\

 

Has anyone dealt with a dud of a lawyer? What's the next step? Reporting him to the dutch version of the bar? Getting another lawyer to go after this one for all costs and damages?

 

Thanks in advance for any stories or advice from the actual lawyers around here!

 

 

This post was edited by ldyparadox99 at April 16, 2013 2:15:30 PM CEST

@emoima No. There is a box that is "married filing seperately". I just said single instead of seperately. If your partner doesn't have a SS# or a TIN, you don't actually put in your partners SS#. I always send a letter stating my husband is a dutch national who has never earned US income therefor he does not have a SS#. Never had an issue. Oh, one other thing I do. There's a program called Taxslayer that has the 2555 form. So you can go through it and print all your info. I'm not sure if you can e-file with the 2555. Since the program forces you to put a SS# for your spouse when you check the filing seperately box, I pay the few bucks to print it out and then white out the number I put in for my husband. So the tax program does all the calculations with the forms and all I have to do is print it out, white out the SS#, and send it. Oh, and I usually include the last page from my dutch income tax form, the print out from where ever I converted my dutch income to dollars, and the letter explaining why I filed as married but filing seperately and my husband has no SS#.