What family, citizenship, ethnic, historical or former-resident connection creates access to this route?
The governing Article 1 excludes from the ordinary Admission and Expulsion Ordinance Dutch nationals born in Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius or Saba; Dutch nationals born in Aruba before 1 January 1986 who were domiciled in one of those islands on 1 January 1986; and the children of those persons. The official 2025 certificate checklist asks for evidence of a Netherlands-Antilles-born Dutch parent, or evidence that an Aruba-born Dutch person resided in the Netherlands Antilles after 1 January 1986. The checklist’s 'after' wording does not establish the statute’s required domicile on 1 January 1986 for the Aruba category.
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Limits of the record
- The 2025 checklist's Aruba 'after 1 January 1986' document wording differs from Article 1's statutory 'on 1 January 1986' domicile requirement; the documents do not reconcile it. No broader family or ancestry class is inferred from the checklist.
- Admission and Expulsion Ordinance Article 1 complete non-application categories
Artikel 1 1. Deze landsverordening is met uitzondering van de bepalingen in de artikelen 22 tot en met 25 niet van toepassing op: a. Nederlanders, geboren in Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius of Saba; b. Nederlanders, vóór 1 januari 1986 in Aruba geboren, die op 1 januari 1986 in Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius of Saba hun woonplaats hadden; c. de kinderen van de onder a en b genoemde Nederlanders. 2. Voor de verstrekking van een niet van toepassing verklaring is ten bate van de Landskas een vergoeding verschuldigd.
- Official 2025 checklist, Certificate of Non-Applicability parent and Aruba entries
6. Declaration of nationality and copy passport of the parent born in the Netherlands Antilles (proof that shows that the parent had the Dutch nationality at the time of his/ her birth and was born in the Netherlands Antilles); 7. Registration form of the Aruba born Dutch that declares that her or she had/ have residency after January 1st 1986 within the Netherlands Antilles;