Official sources and their status
These are the site's primary sources: what we use each one for and the limits we know of. Every procedure page and article also cites its own.
Last revised:
Laws
| Source | What we use it for | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Landsverordening toelating en uitzetting (LTU) | Admission, permits, their withdrawal (art. 14) and leaving the country. | The text published by the Toelatingsorganisatie. A 2014 amendment changed the fees. |
| Landsverordening arbeid vreemdelingen (LAV) | The work permit (tewerkstellingsvergunning), applied for by the employer. | — |
| Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap | Dutch nationality: option and naturalisation (arts. 8 and 9). | A Kingdom law: the same on every island. |
| Toelatingsbesluit | Rules implementing the LTU, such as the guarantee deposit. | — |
Policies and instructions
| Source | What we use it for | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Toelatingsorganisatie policy of 1-4-2026 | Permits of up to 3 years, incomplete applications and indefinite residence. | It does not say whether the extra years are charged at the first-application or the renewal rate: this is still to be confirmed with the Toelatingsorganisatie. |
| Rib'e Lugá policy | Regularisation for people who arrived before 13-11-2025: requirements, fees and decision period. | Only for the registration, which closes on 31-10-2026. |
| 2006 instruction (HIG) | Renewal (3.1.2), reporting changes (3.1.3), address and time abroad (3.9), collecting the permit (3.12) and relationship breakdown (4.6). | Written for the Netherlands Antilles, before 2010. Sections 2.5, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.14 have been repealed since 2019. |
| Ministerial order on investors (2014) | Investment permits. | For the indefinite permit, the Spanish version says ANG 1,000,000 and the English one ANG 1,500,000. We follow the 2026 policy: more than XCG 1,500,000. |
| Work permit moratorium (P.B. 2025, no. 78) | Occupations that get no work permit since 20-6-2025. | Replaces the 2021 regulation (P.B. 2021, no. 44). |
| 2026 minimum wage (P.B. 2025, no. 236) | The hourly minimum wage (XCG 11.93 from age 21) quoted in the work articles. | It sets the hourly figure; the youth minimums (65% to 90%) and the monthly figure come from the SOAW ministry's announcement. |
Official pages and forms
| Source | What we use it for | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Toelatingsorganisatie (immigrationcur.org) | Requirements, fees, forms and application status. | Its sitemap lists about 30 Rib'e Lugá pages that no longer exist (404 error). We link to none of them. |
| Official forms and payment order | The 19 .docx forms that “Fill in the official Word” completes in your browser. | The payment order lists every fee: you have to mark the row that applies to you. |
| Government Loket Digital | Work permit, Kranshi registration and sédula. | — |
| SVB | Basic health insurance (BVZ) and pension (AOV). | — |
| Governor's Office | Nationality: option, naturalisation and their fees. | Fees are indexed every year. |
| NetherlandsWorldwide and CDC | Visas and vaccines for travelling to Curaçao. | The visa depends on nationality; the vaccine on the country you travel from. |
Court rulings
The 172 rulings come from rechtspraak.nl and are all listed on Case law (in Spanish), with their island. A ruling decides one specific case, and those from Aruba, Sint Maarten and Bonaire apply a different admission law: that is why we use them as examples and not as Curaçao rules.
When they were checked
The copy of the official website is compared every week. The LTU, the 2006 instruction, the 2026 policy, the Rib'e Lugá policy, the Rijkswet, the 2014 investor order, the 2025 moratorium and the 2026 minimum wage were reread on 28 September 2026. Every procedure page and article also says when it was reviewed.
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