Search year highly educated

Search year permit about to expire? Com.pas arranges IND sponsorship and payroll so you keep your job.

Do you currently have a search year permit that expires and are working for an employer who is not (yet) an authorised sponsor? And would you like to keep your job? Then Com.pas can provide a solution by taking over the role of IND sponsor on behalf of your employer and through our payroll services. We help by completely relieving your employer of the IND process and ensure that your search year permit is converted into a highly skilled migrant permit.

From

€ 2,50

hourly

No start-up costs

Convert the "search year highly skilled" residence permit to a residence permit as a highly skilled migrant.

The Netherlands considers it important to give highly educated students the opportunity and time to find a job in our country after their studies. A search year permit also known as a search year for highly educated people allows recent graduates with a nationality from outside the European Union to stay and work in the Netherlands for a period of up to one year.

There is no obligation during this search year to work for an employer who is a recognised referent. During this year, as a graduate student, you can work for any employer in any type of job.

If you want to continue living and working in the Netherlands after the search year highly educated, the residence permit ‘search year highly educated’ must be converted into a residence permit as a highly skilled migrant before the end of the search year by an employer who is a recognized referent with the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) or you start working as a self-employed person. An additional advantage for your employer is that a reduced salary criterion (€2801) applies. The reduced salary criterion remains applicable as long as you continue to work continuously for an employer who is a sponsor with the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND).

Highly educated people who graduated abroad can also apply for a ‘search year highly educated’ residence permit in the Netherlands and thus use the reduced salary criterion. For them, they must have obtained a master’s degree in the past three years. They must have obtained the degree from one of the universities in the top-200 rankings of the most recent list of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the QS World University Rankings, or the Shanghai Jiao Tong Ranking. The prerequisite is that the university appears on two of the three rankings in the year of graduation and that the application is submitted within three years of graduation.

Com.pas handles application for highly skilled migrants

Many companies are reluctant to hire a highly skilled migrant. This is because of the complex rules for employment and residence permits. This is a complicated and time-consuming process for employers. By outsourcing the employment process to us, your organisation can employ highly skilled migrants without any hassle. The highly skilled migrant(s) join our employment, making us the legal employer and recognised sponsor. We then make the highly skilled migrant exclusively available to you as the client. We arrange the entire application for a residence permit with the IND and guide your highly skilled migrant through the arrangements and formalities involved in the application.

Contact us completely free of obligation for search year highly skilled opportunities or arrange it directly through our quotation form.

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