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Home » News from the Netherlands and Belgium » Dutch passport more expensive next year
Dutch passport more expensive next year
Passports for Dutch citizens will become more expensive next year. Municipalities can charge more than € 2019 for the travel document in 71, now the maximum price is more than € 65. This is evident from a list of rates for 2019 that the National Office for Identity Data has published.
For an identity card, applicants will also have to dig deeper into their pockets next year. This now costs € 51, but it will cost € 57. The prices mentioned apply to Dutch people aged eighteen and older. The documents are valid for ten years.
Municipalities are allowed to set the price themselves, but most of them use the set maximum rate. The Council of Ministers still has to officially approve the rates for 2019.
Dutch in Thailand
At the Dutch embassy in Bangkok you pay € 130,75 or 4.970 baht for a new passport. Whether these rates will go up is unknown to the editors.
Source: Dutch media
What a sum when you think about it. Especially now with gold leaf. My wife's Thai passport in the Netherlands cost less than 35 euros and it is even cheaper in Thailand. So different cake.
You do not need to bring a passport photo for a Thai passport.
Made on site and put directly on the computer. all included.
So no more whining about a passport photo that is not good
Dear Jacques, I don't know how long your wife's Thai passport is valid for, but when I look at my wife's passport, unlike most EU passports with 10 years validity, her passport is only valid for 5 years.
Moreover, unlike most EU passports, the holder of a Thai passport needs an extra visa almost everywhere.
So the question is, which other cake, as you call it, do you prefer?
Certainly there is something to be said for that. That has improved with the Dutch passport since a while back. But that Ned. passport at the embassy in Bangkok more than 130 euros is valid for at least 20 years or at least made of gold leaf. Wouldn't look out of place in Thailand. Perhaps we will get an explanation from the Ambassador or Consul. If it is still handwritten there, there will be a surcharge.
Dear Jacques, the question why a Dutch passport is much more expensive abroad should actually be asked by the Dutch Ambassador.
A Dutch passport is of course not produced at the Embassy in Bangkok and does not come via the Netherlands by registered mail via the Netherlands, but usually with a much more expensive procedure and a special courier service back to Bangkok.
Also the costs, which are of course much cheaper in Thailand, are in no way comparable to the much higher wage costs, which you also enjoyed from the Netherlands.
I pay for a British passport, which is also valid for 10 years, even much longer abroad.
Just lying around complaining about a price, while people don't even know exactly why, and also comparing this with a Thai passport for which you can't even enter many countries without an extra Visa, certainly doesn't seem right to me.
In the Henley Passport index, the Dutch passport, because you can visit many countries Visa-free, is in 4th place, while the Thai passport has to share 66th place with a few third world countries.
Although some like to wrongly report otherwise, if they would compare properly, especially with a Dutch passport, everyone is not so bad off.
The economy is doing well, they say, so everyone has something to add. But they pull it out just as hard, with these kinds of increases on all kinds of fronts. This is a bit off topic, but my pension fund ¨Post.nl¨
sends out a neat newsletter by email every month, coverage ratio now 116.6, a lot of blah blah, but nowhere a word about indexation and an increase in the pension to be paid out. But hey, we're still alive….
Comfort You, here in Belgium municipality of ST-Truiden it costs 84 euros and is only valid for 7 years
Yes Jacques, you are absolutely right, about € 35,= but keep in mind that this document is valid for 5 (five) years; actually 4,5 years, after all it must be valid for 6 months and therefore amounts to € 70 (seventy) for 9 years and then the Dutch passport is not that expensive, in comparison, but it remains expensive.
Dutch and Belgians must have a passport that is valid for at least six months upon arrival in Thailand. This period obviously does not apply to Thai nationals with a Thai passport. But that's not what it's about. In principle, the issuance of a passport, driver's license, etc. is cost-effective and the government does not make a profit from it. Now there is an increase of almost 10%. It seems to me that the government would suddenly incur 10% more costs to provide citizens with a passport. But because the passport has become valid for 10 years, income will decrease in the coming years and that does not suit them. Left or right, the citizen pays the price. Water board tax, energy costs, property tax, health insurance and so on, will also become considerably more expensive in 2019. Working people may receive a higher salary, but the pension funds, which index the benefits, are difficult to find. Retirees, who apparently matter less and less, will undoubtedly continue to suffer in terms of disposable assets in 2019.
The Dutch passport is valid for 10 years. Previously only 5 years.
You can travel visa-free to many countries with your Dutch passport.
I worked for many years at the producer of Dutch passports. Everyone wants the Dutch passport to be as safe as possible and that there are no fake passports in circulation and that no identity theft can be committed with your passport.
To properly secure that passport costs money, a lot of money. You always have to be ahead of the criminal world, so innovation and improvement of passport security is continuous.
The price is actually low if you consider the convenience and security of the Dutch passport.
Mate yes, we are Dutch, so we have to complain..
On the site nederlandwereldwijd.nl and then consular fees for Thailand
states that a passport from September 01, 2018 for an adult costs 130,75 Euro, or in Thai baht 4970.
So then you may have paid a little extra for something else or the mentioned 165 is not correct.
Once with 'print'.
That additional price, you can just buy 10 beers less in those 3 years….
Dutch passport is considered one of the safest / most secure in the world. It's worth the extra few cents to me.
Regards, Arnold