Immigration & Mobility
Work and residence permits, EU Blue Cards, intra-company transfers, family reunification and citizenship applications.
Immigration work is administrative, deadline-driven and unforgiving of small errors. A missing legalisation stamp can cost a family three months. We handle permits and residence applications for employers moving staff into the EU and for individuals and families settling here, and we keep you informed at each step rather than leaving you to guess.
What this area covers
- Single permits, work authorisations and EU Blue Cards
- Intra-Corporate Transferee permits and posted worker notifications (Limosa, WagwEU)
- Highly skilled migrant applications under the Dutch recognised sponsor scheme
- Family reunification and partner residence applications
- Long-term residence, permanent residence and naturalisation
- Refusals, appeals and regularisation of status
Situations clients bring us
You are relocating an employee into Belgium or the Netherlands
We confirm which route applies, prepare the file, liaise with the regional authority or the IND, and brief the employee on the practical steps — municipality registration, residence card collection, family members' applications.
Your application has been refused
Refusals often rest on a document the authority says it never received, or on a condition that was misunderstood. We review the decision, advise whether appeal or a corrected fresh application is the better route, and act on the deadline, which is frequently thirty days.
You want to settle permanently or apply for nationality
We advise on residence history, integration and language requirements and the timing of an application, including how a period abroad affects eligibility.
How we work
- A single point of contact for HR teams, with status updates on an agreed schedule.
- Fixed fees per application type, so relocation budgets are predictable.
- Document checklists in the employee's own language wherever we can provide them.
The European dimension
Where cross-border practice makes the difference
An EU residence permit is not a European work permit. The Blue Card and ICT Directives create partial mobility between member states, but each move still requires its own notification or application. We advise groups on which entity should employ a mobile worker, and on the sequence that avoids a gap in lawful status.
Questions about immigration & mobility
Talk to a lawyer about immigration & mobility
An initial consultation of up to forty-five minutes is charged at a fixed fee of €150 excluding VAT, and waived where we go on to act for you on the same matter.