Where can I find my citizen service number (BSN)?
Your citizen service number (BSN) can usually be found on your Dutch passport, identity card or driving licence. You can also look it up online on MijnOverheid. Dutch payslips, annual salary statements, health insurance cards and health insurance policies have your BSN on them too.
Locating your BSN on a Dutch passport, identity card or driving licence
You can usually find your citizen service number on your passport, identity card or driving licence if these documents were issued by the Netherlands.
See:
- the location of a BSN on a Dutch passport
- the location of a BSN on a Dutch identity card
- the location of a BSN on a Dutch driving licence
Looking up your BSN on MijnOverheid
You can look up your BSN online on MijnOverheid. Once you have logged in using your DigiD or a recognised means of eID from another European country, click ‘Identiteit’. You can then click through to your personal data.
Locating your BSN on a health insurance card
Your BSN usually appears on a Dutch health insurance card under ‘BSN’ or ‘personal identification number’.
I am not sure whether I have a BSN
If you have never lived in the Netherlands, or if you deregistered from a Dutch municipality before 1 October 1994, you may not have a citizen service number (BSN).
If you are not sure whether you have a BSN, you can check this at a Non-residents Records Database (RNI) desk. If you are registered in the Non-residents Records Database, you will have a BSN.
If you want to check whether you are registered in the RNI – and therefore do have a BSN – you can send an email or submit a completed contact form or change of address form to the RNI desk in any of the municipalities below. You must include a photocopy of your valid passport or identity document.
If the RNI desk says that you are registered in the RNI, this means you also have a BSN. You can request an extract from the RNI to see your personal data, including your BSN.
You can also go in person to an RNI desk to verify whether you are registered in the RNI. You will need to make an appointment for this and bring your valid passport or identity document to your appointment.
Contact an RNI desk in the Netherlands
If you are registered in the RNI, you can see your personal data during the appointment. If you are not registered, you can register there at the RNI desk.
Don’t have a BSN?
If you don’t have a BSN, read about how to get one or how you can get a citizen service number for your child.
What is a BSN?
Read more about a citizen service number
Contact
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