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The IND’s 28 May 2026 Business Newsletter states that if a holder of a permit covered by the revised single-permit directive becomes unemployed and has held that permit for 2 years or more, they may look for a new job for up to 6 months instead of 3. The window cannot run past the permit’s validity.
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The IND currently publishes the essential start-up personnel permit as a pilot running from 1 June 2021 to 1 June 2028. That product is for an employee who is essential to a start-up. It is not the founder’s one-year start-up residence permit.
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Yes. Dutch nationality is not a condition for registering a company. What you need is a legal basis to stay and work as a founder if you are not an EU, EEA, or Swiss national.
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Yes, the company can hire. Your start-up permit does not replace each employee’s own right to work. EU/EEA/Swiss staff are different from non-EU staff. There is a separate IND permit for essential start-up personnel.
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