These are the various application options to bring your relatives or family to the Netherlands
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There are several ways to bring your family members or relatives to the Netherlands. Depending on your situation, you have to submit a certain type of application to the IND. Below we explain which application you have to make.
Post-travel asylum family reunification
Do you have an asylum residence permit, do you live in the Netherlands and do you want your family who stayed behind to come to the Netherlands? Then apply for 'gezinshereniging nareis' (post-travel family reunification). Within three months after receiving your asylum residence permit you must apply for the post-travel for your partner or spouse, your minor child and your adult child who is 'dependent on you'. This means that the adult child is dependent on you. If you entered the Netherlands as an