I think you should be able to just call the IND quickly and ask them, or look on their website. I would assume you can apply for the passport before your five-year permit is up, but I really don't know.

Well Jeremy, I'll see what I can do about that. I at least have an appointment with the Juridisch Loket on Wednesday. It's not what I wanted to hear, but I'm glad you have the answers, or at least a guideline, to what I need to do. Thanks for the valuable information.

 

EDIT: Oh yeah, just one more thing. Say that I apply in September for my new verblijfsvergunning. If it's approved, we wouldn't need to get a registered partnership since it's before 1 October, or we would since it would get approved after 1 October? And we wouldn't have to do everything on the same day in a big rush, even though we should do everything as quickly as possible, since it doesn't matter anymore if there is a gap, right?

This post was edited by sabetsu at August 16, 2012 4:15:01 PM CEST

Mvn, I can't get an independent permit until like a year from now due to my permit being issued a year after I got here and it not being retroactive as to when I applied. I can type in the piece from the letter from the IND if you want, from when I got the permit, but just believe me on this. It's because we didn't actually meet the requirements until that date that I was awarded the permit on, so they don't count the time before that.

This post was edited by sabetsu at August 16, 2012 3:07:38 PM CEST

I would like to transfer my sponsorship to another partner.

 

Do I need to use the form 'Verblijfsdoel Wijzigen'?

 

Does it count as a totally new permit, where I need to pay an additional 1250/whatever euro even though I am not changing my purpose of stay but rather my sponsor and partner?

 

I am here for three years but my permit is only valid since two years ago. If I register with my new partner and at his address, well... how do I ask this? What do I do first? Do I first inform the IND or do I first register at his house? Will that cause a gap in residency? I want to be able to naturalise next year as initially intended.

 

If I change my sponsor on or after 1 October, will the new five year rule be applied to me instead of the three year one I came in on?

 

Do we need to apply to the change of permit and the registering and our partnership all on the same day he gets his new contract for one year?

 

And just to clear this up, no, it's not a sham relationship, so don't go there please.

 

I would really appreciate any information which is helpful regarding my situation. Thanks for reading, everyone.

This post was edited by sabetsu at August 16, 2012 2:01:13 PM CEST

Those are some of the chances you have to take when hiring people and abiding by human rights. But isn't this why we have proefperiodes of 30-90 days? So that there isn't a huge initial investment being lost with that individual if they decide to leave after three days? Someone's employability needs to be judged off of the basis of their character and their qualifications or willingness and ambition to learn and maintain those qualifications. I don't want to see welfare shamed here like it is in the US. It's something temporary to help people get on their feet and to stay healthy and unstressed while they look for work or get better so that they can look for work in the future. It doesn't mean they are lazy. In fact this is only adding to the problem of 'generations on welfare'. You deny a whole class some things everyone else takes for granted such as daily responsibility of having a job, and then you get frustrated when they won't work or don't have the skills to work. Everyone needs to be given the opportunity and the support to be able to be successful, it's a societal effort as much as it's a personal one. No one is saying that business owners / entrepreneurs should be driving their businesses into the ground for the 'common good' of helping those in need, but you can't cut off a whole sector of society, most of whom have fallen on bad times. Even if they haven't fallen on bad times and come from a family on welfare, isn't it better for them to learn marketable skills? Can't you conduct an interview and learn if they are just lazy and will probably amount to nothing or if they really are something? This is just ridiculous. This post was edited by sabetsu at August 11, 2012 11:11:45 AM CEST