Yoga Teacher intending to move to The Netherlands

Hi and welcome to the Forum.

The first thing you need to do is decide on what you want to do; a visa for being self-employed, teaching Yoga, is a different visa to having a conventional job being employed as an Interior Designer, you can only apply for one.  Once you are in, then you can change things around.

So, how do you do it - all the details you need are on the Dutch Government (IND) website: these links will take you there:

Self employed
Worker

My advice is to read the links and the information they contain, then make your mind up.

Probably the most important thing is that part of the process is that you will have to learn Dutch and take an exam as part of your visa process; the details are in the links.

If you have any further specific questions, then please come back to us.

Hope this helps.

Cynic
Expat Team

Hi Cynic,

Thank you for the prompt response, yes this helps.

To clarify, my intentions are to become a yoga teacher in The Netherlands, the Interior Design field can come in later once I've settled. So Self- Employed visa is the most suitable way to go, if I'm focusing on the yoga teaching part.

For the Self - Employed visa, would you agree that I should register my legal entity through the KVK first before applying visa at all? Are there any links that offers free legal advice for in The Netherlands.

If I were to go through with that, I would need a Dutch address for my legal entity, but I prefer not to pay rent and find an apartment in Rotterdam from long- distance during my visa approval process. Would it be acceptable to temporarily use a Dutch P.O box as the physical address for my legal entity to submit to the KVK the sake of registration requirement?

Also if I were to categorize my legal entity as Creative, LLC, is there such thing as Creative Freelancer for non- EU citizens in The Netherlands. This link https://www.everaert.nl/en/creative-ind … freelancer exposed me to the idea.

Let me know what you think, thanks Cynic

Kanke

Hi again.

I would certainly speak to the KvK before I made any decisions; they have a very good website (link), it used to have an English version, but Google translate does a reasonable job.  This will take you straight to their contact page with all the various means described.

Your link seems doable providing you can meet all the conditions - the health insurance may be an issue if you don't have a proper job because the payments are taken from your salary at source; I suspect your Dutch friends were already in a health scheme.  Nobody expects you to land in Schiphol with a business up and running, the only hurdle really is if the Netherlands needs more Yoga teachers, or whether your style is unique and so enhances what they already have - I don't know, but you will have to convince them in order to get your visa.

Hope this helps.

Cynic
Expat Team