Make an appointment at the municipality
The municipality works by appointment.
Commercial parties are offering a paid service for making an appointment at the municipality. The municipality is strongly advising against using this service because of the costs and because you are putting your personal information at risk. Making an appointment at the municipality yourself is free and easy and your information remains secure. Look for more information on the page Take no risk: make your own appointment at the municipality.
In order to serve The Hague’s more than 500,000 inhabitants, the municipality is working by appointment. The municipality can then reserve time for you and you can be certain that you will be served quickly.
Rules for appointment
There are a few basic rules for making an appointment. The municipality urgently asks you to:
- arrive on time for your appointment
- take all of the required documents listed for the product you are requesting
- cancel your appointment as quickly as possible if you suddenly are not able to come
- comply with all of the protection measures against the coronavirus.
Make an appointment
You can make an appointment on the website through the page of the product you are requesting. Click on the appointment button on the product page.
Collecting a document without an appointment
You do not have to make an appointment to pick up your new Dutch passport, identity card or driving licence. You can collect your document by showing your pick-up receipt and valid form of identification at the city office where you applied for it.
Reschedule or cancel an appointment
Would you like to reschedule or cancel your appointment? You can do this using the links in the confirmation email you received when you made the appointment.
Dutch passport or identity card
- Apply for a passport or business passport
- Apply for a Dutch identity card
- Stolen or lost passport, driving licence or identity card
- Apply for a Dutch passport or identity card after loss or theft
- Apply for second Dutch passport
- Apply for a refugee passport
- Apply for an alien's passport
- Apply for a passport and identity card for Dutch citizens abroad
- Apply for a passport and identity card without a fixed domicile
Moving
Birth and Acknowledgment of Parenthood
- Register a birth
- Acknowledgment of Parenthood (AOP) after the birth
- Acknowledgment of Parenthood (AOP) before the birth
- Choosing a surname for your child
- Registering children adopted in the Netherlands
- Registering children adopted from abroad
Marriage and unmarried partnership
- Notice of intent to marry or enter into an unmarried partnership
- Declaration of no impediment
- Converting unmarried partnership into marriage
Death
Parking
- Switch the number plate on your parking permit
- Change address of parking permit
- Paying for parking permit
- Cancel your parking permit
- Replacement of number plate sign and markings for reserved parking space
- Apply for parking permit for companies
- Apply for parking permit for residents
- Apply for parking permit for visitors
Recycling and waste
Copies and transcripts
Personal Records Database (BRP)
- Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG)
- Correcting, removing or changing details in the BRP
- Request to keep data confidential
- Register foreign documents in the BRP
- Notarisation of signature
- Indicate your new surname
- Attestation de vita extract (proof of life)
- Request a DigiD for Dutch citizens abroad
- Alternative address
Immigration
- Naturalisation, applying for Dutch citizenship
- Registration procedures for Dutch citizens coming from abroad
- Registration procedures EU/EEA or Swiss citizens
- Registering again in the BRP (you already have a BSN)
- Registration procedures for asylum seekers
- Registration procedures for people with residence permit
- Option, applying for Dutch citizenship
- Registration procedures for non-residents of the Netherlands
- Remigration, renouncing Dutch nationality
Published: 7 October 2016Modified: 10 September 2020