Everaert Advocaten: Immigration services for expats and international companies

If you want to bring your partner, family or business to the Netherlands, or you already live in the Netherlands and you want to know what your options are for permanent residence or even naturalisation, Everaert Advocaten can help you. They will support you with all your immigration matters, be it a short or a long stay.

Tailored services for expats

Currently, Everaert Advocaten has a team of 16 lawyers and 5 paralegals plus administrative assistance, offering tailored migration solutions to expats and their family members, as well as to international companies, entrepreneurs and highly skilled migrants.

They offer the following services and advice to private and corporate clients:

Private clients (individuals, couples and families)

Everaert Advocaten helps private clients, such as individuals, couples and families, with the following:

• Family reunification
• Future planning: Permanent residency
• Naturalisation and complex citizenship issues pertaining to dual citizenship
• International adoption
• Residence permits on humanitarian grounds
• Creative freelancers

Everaert also offers a yearly free webinar for foreign arts students. This year it will take place on May 30, 2024. The registration for this will open later this month, so keep an eye on their website and socials!

Corporate clients (entrepreneurs and highly-skilled migrants)

Everaert Advocaten offers services for corporate clients, including but not limited to entrepreneurs and highly-skilled migrants:

• Obtaining an immigration sponsor licence
• Intra-company transfers of employees
• EU blue cards
• Specific purpose permits
• Work permits
• Posting of workers in the EU
• Compliance audits
• Employer's fines (inspection SZW)

Whether you own your own business or you are relocating to the Netherlands for work, their legal team can help with the necessary legal obligations.

Multilingual support

The main languages of communication are Dutch and English. Additionally, Everaert Advocaten also offers support in Mandarin, with a dedicated team of native speakers.

Up-to-date knowledge

Thanks to their extensive experience and up-to-date knowledge of current developments in both national and international migration law, Everaert Advocaten can provide clients with effective solutions and strategic advice for specific migration needs.

Outstanding working relations with Dutch government agencies

Everaert Advocaten has excellent working relationships with many Dutch government agencies, notably the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND), the Netherlands Labour Authority (NLA) as well as Dutch consulates abroad. The firm is an official partner of the expat service centres in Amsterdam (IN Amsterdam), Leiden (ECLR) and the Hague (The Hague International Centre).

Partnership between Everaert and Lawyers for Lawyers

As of March 2023, Everaert Advocaten is proud to call itself an official partner of Lawyers for Lawyers. Lawyers for Lawyers is committed to upholding a free and independent legal profession and stands up for fellow lawyers, in every corner of the world, who are threatened or prosecuted for their work.

With this partnership, the entirety of Everaert Immigration Lawyers would like to contribute to this good cause in the coming years. Because every lawyer should be able to practise their profession freely and independently!

Impressive curriculum

Everaert Advocaten is recognised nationally and internationally as one of the leading firms in migration law in the Netherlands. Since their founding in 1982, Everaert Advocaten has built an impressive curriculum of publications, media appearances and research papers. Its lawyers are on the editorial boards of professional magazines, such as the jurisprudence publications Rechtspraak Vreemdelingenrecht, Journaal Vreemdelingenrecht and Asiel&Migrantenrecht.

The firm's legal experts regularly contribute to training sessions and lectures at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Some of the firm's lawyers teach professional courses on immigration law to lawyers and HR professionals for the multimedia publisher Sdu and the certified legal training service provider OSR.

Two of the firm's lawyers are featured as Thought Leaders in the Who's Who Legal (WWL) - Corporate Immigration, an influential ranking of the foremost legal practitioners worldwide.'

Contact Everaert Advocaten

You are welcome to get in touch with the team at Everaert Advocaten with all your immigration-related questions and concerns. They look forward to meeting you!