BRP extract from the Dutch population register
The Dutch population register (basisregistratie personen) contains all the records of the population of the Netherlands.
You can request an extract from the municipality’s Personal Records Database (BRP). It provides proof that you are recorded in the municipality’s population register. The document contains your personal data as they are registered with the municipality. Such as your address.
Official authorities can sometimes ask you for an extract. For example, when you enrol in an educational programme.
Which extracts can I request?
You may request a standard extract and extracts containing supplementary information. Extracts with supplementary information also contain the information found in a standard extract.
Standard extract
Extracts with supplementary information
- Begin link: BRP extract plus details about your parents , end link.
- Begin link: BRP extract plus date of registration , end link.
- Begin link: BRP extract plus nationality , end link.
- Begin link: BRP extract plus previous addresses , end link.
- BRP extract plus information required for Begin link: housing allocation for single person , end link.
- BRP extract plus information required for Begin link: housing allocation for family, end link.
- Begin link: International BRP extract , end link.
- Begin link: Attestation de vita extract (proof of life), end link.
- Begin link: Proof of Citizen Service Number (BSN), end link.
Travelling alone with a child
Are you planning to travel alone with a child and do you have parental responsibility for this child? You must be able to show a document which proves this. You can request a ‘gezagsregister’ (Parental Authority Register) extract from the courts.
Go to Rechtspraak.nlMailing address
Are you registered at a mailing address? Then you can request an extract by sending an email to Begin link: dpz.kcctl@denhaag.nl, end link. .
Your email should include:
- Your telephone number.
- Which extract you need or what the extract will be used for.
- A copy of your Begin link: valid form of identification, end link. .
You will receive the extract and the invoice by post.
Proof of deregistration in the Netherlands
Have you been deregistered in the Netherlands? You can ask for proof of this:
Begin link: Extract non-resident of the Netherlands (RNI), end link. (deregistered after September 1994)
Good to know
You can make a safe copy of your identity document with your mobile telephone or tablet using the KopieID app. Read more on the Begin external link: website of the Government of the Netherlands(External link), end external link..