A visa is an authorisation or decision in the form of a sticker affixed to a passport or other travel document. It means that when the visa was issued no objection existed to the holder entering the Netherlands to stay temporarily or travel on to a third country. But having a visa does not give a person the automatic right of entry. When visa holders enter the country, they have to show that they still meet the conditions for entry.

The statistics below - unless otherwise mentioned - are provided to us once a year by Statistics Netherlands (CBS). The list was last updated in June 2007 with the most recent figures available at that time. The very latest statistics can be found on the CBS website