Effective from 23rd December, 00:01 o’ clock local time in the Netherlands;
•All passengers from the UK, Ireland and South Africa, traveling to the Netherlands are required to produce an Official negative covid-19 test result and show a negative rapid antigen test result taken upon departure from an airport. This restriction will replace the ban on all passenger flights and passengers from the United Kingdom and South-Africa, travelling to and entering the Netherlands. for more details, please click
Here.
•A signed negative test declaration form (for those travelling from the UK and South Africa).
•All non-Schengen nationals and non-EU nationals are prohibited to enter the Netherlands by order of the ministry of justice and security.
•Exempted from the travel restriction are residents from (Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Rwanda, Singapore, South-Korea, Thailand, and Uruguay).
•The following categories of travelers from non-Schengen/non EU/non UK countries not listed above are exempted specific categories of travelers with an essential function or need:
•Healthcare professionals, health researchers, and elderly care Professionals.
• Frontier workers.
•Transport personnel.
•Diplomats, staff of international organizations and people invited by international organizations whose physical presence is required for the well-functioning of these organizations, military personnel and humanitarian aid workers and civil protection personnel in the exercise of their functions.
•Passengers in transit.
•Passengers travelling for imperative family reasons.
•seafarers.
•Persons in need of international protection or for other humanitarian reasons.
•Persons on board of a state flight.
•Persons in the interest Dutch economy and society , elite athletes and their support stuff.
•Personal in the cultural and creative sectors, journalist and researchers.
•Partners in a long-distance relationship under certain conditions.for more informations, please click
Here.
•Urgent advice of 10 days self-quarantine applies for passengers from the regions and countries mentioned
Here.
QUARNTINE :
• Be aware current situation health declaration: for all passengers aged 13 years or older travelling to and from the Netherlands a health declaration is mandatory before boarding.
•Passenger locator data: the local health authorities may request operators to provide passenger locator data in a very short time (including seat number) for contact tracing. Operators should therefore keep this information for at least 2 weeks after each flight. A passenger locator form drafted in accordance with international standards can be used for this purpose.
•Netherlands has decided to allow some categories to enter the Netherlands; some of these categories are holding type D visa (long stay visa) and some categories are holding type C visa (short stay visa).
Hereunder the list of categories which are allowed to enter the Netherlands for the time being:
•EU citizens, including UK nationals and members of their families* can travel freely (no specific reasons have to be documented).
Non-EU citizens covered by the under mentioned exceptions should travel well documented:
•Nationals and inhabitants of Norway, Iceland, Switzerland , Monaco, Andorra, San Marino en Vatican city, and their family members if they are traveling or are joining them to Netherland. Check whether they need a visa.
•Third-country nationals holding a residence card or a residence permit in accordance with Directive 2003/109/EC (the LTR Directive) and their family if they are traveling or are joining them to Netherland First check whether they need a visa.
•Third-country nationals who derive their right of residence from other European Directives or from the national law of a Member State and their family members if they are traveling or are joining them to Netherland. Check whether they need a visa.
•Holders of a long-stay visa authorization for temporary stay or ‘MVV’
•Holders of a valid residence permit and their family members if they are traveling or are joining them to Netherland.
•Other third country nationals who have a vital function or need, including:
-Healthcare personnel; doctors, nurses or researchers
-Border workers.
-Seasonal workers.
-Persons employed in the transport of goods and other transport personnel, where necessary, including container ships, bulk carriers (e.g. ore or coal), tankers (fuels and chemicals), fisheries, persons employed in the energy sector i.e. oil and gas platforms and wind farms as well as offshore companies providing services to this sector, and flight crew;
- Cross-border commuter.
-Seafarers in possession of a seaman's book, with the exception of seafarers on commercial and pleasure yachts.
-Diplomats, or service passport holder in the performance of their duties.
-Armed forces personnel, in the performance of their duties.
-Personnel of international and humanitarian organizations.
-Persons who have imperative reasons to visit their families; these are journeys in exceptional cases.
-Visiting a terminally ill family member or attending a funeral. You must be a family member in the first or second degree (as defined in Dutch law).
-Coming to the Netherlands to be with your legal partner when they give birth. This applies to the father of the child only. If you are not legally married, you must have acknowledged paternity of the unborn child. You must also be able to prove that your partner is more than 34 weeks pregnant.
-Citizens of non-EU+ countries can transfer to a country outside the EU+ via Amsterdam airport, if they remain in the non-Schengen transit area of the airport and if they have a ticket for a confirmed connecting flight -to an airport outside the Schengen area- that departs within 48 hours upon arrival in Amsterdam.
-Persons in need of international protection; the border procedure applies in full;
-Persons admitted for humanitarian reasons;
-Students; provided that you are in possession of a residence notification letter issued by the IND: ''Study''.
-Highly skilled migrants: provided that you are in possession of a notification letter issued by the IND for residence as: Highly skilled migrant.
-Long distance relationship (type C visa).
*For more information on lawful residence on regular grounds and lawful residence on asylum grounds, see the IND’s website.
*Please note: even if you are permitted to travel to the Netherlands because you fall into an exemption category, you may also be required to self-quarantine for 10 days on arrival. This depends on the country you are travelling from.
PCR:
Effective from December 29th 2020 at 0:01 CET:
•All passengers - including Dutch citizens and transferring passengers- (Passengers aged 13 or older) MUST show a negative test declaration Covid-19 and the negative test result when boarding the aircraft and on arrival to The Netherlands at the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee border control filter. (LAMP (PCR) test now also allowed)
•Effective from January 23rd 2021 0:01 LT, in addition to the mandatory negative PCR-test results, the test-declaration, the health declaration the government adds a mandatory COVID-19 negative rapid antigen-test to the spectrum of test that need to be carried out for air travel to The Netherlands. This test is also mandatory for transfer/transit passengers.
•The COVID-19 rapid antigen-test must be performed at the Airport (on passengers own expense) within 4 hours prior to departure .
•If a passenger cannot show the negative test declaration form, then the passenger may not board.
•Passengers arriving in The Netherlands without valid negative test results and the mandatory form may be denied entry to the Netherlands and will have to depart again (on the same airline to the country of departure). Airlines carrying passengers without valid negative test results and the accompanying form may be subject to a fine.
Exceptions to the requirement to present a negative test result
•The following people do not need a negative test result:
•Children under 13.
•People arriving from countries on the EU list of safe countries.
•Cross-border commuters (including students and school children).
•Holders of a diplomatic identity card issued by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
•Holders of non-Dutch diplomatic passports.
•Holders of Dutch diplomatic passports, if they are travelling as part of their job, in order to perform their job or after performing their job.
•Heads of state and members of foreign governments.
•Individuals who work in the goods transport sector, and other transportation personnel in so far as necessary. This includes lorry drivers and individuals who work on container ships, bulk carriers (e.g. of ore and coal), tankers (fuel and chemicals) and fishing vessels. It also includes individuals who work in the energy sector, including oil and gas platforms and offshore wind farms, offshore companies that provide services to this sector, and air, cruise-ship and ferry crew members if they are travelling in order to perform their job.
•Seafarers who possess a seaman’s record book if they are travelling as part of their job, in order to perform work or after performing work. This exemption does not apply to seafarers on commercial yachts and pleasure craft.
•Passengers on flights which do not have a Dutch airport as their destination, but are diverted to a Dutch airport due to unforeseen circumstances.
•Passengers with a NATO Travel Order or a NATO-2 visum.
*Details on test report and declaration:
The following requirements are applicable for the mandatory test report:
1. Test must be a molecular PCR Sars-Cov-2/COVID-19 test. Other types are not allowed.
2. Test result should be negative (or non-detected)
3. The test result should be in Dutch, English, German, French or Spanish
4. Test report should include first and Family name, matching with the Passport
5. Test report should include Date and time of test: must be maximum 72 hours before arrival in the Netherlands
6. Details of the institute or lab that performed the test.
Health declaration:
The Health Declaration form also remains mandatory for all passengers arriving, departing and transiting in The Netherlands, in addition to the covid-19 test declaration.