Registering a birth and acknowledging parentage of a child outside the Netherlands. Choose your country.
If your child is born outside the Netherlands, you must register their birth in the country where they were born. How you do that varies by country. If you live in the Netherlands, you must also register the birth in the Netherlands. It is usually possible to acknowledge parentage of a child in the country where the child is born. You can also do this in the Netherlands.
- Afghanistan
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Albania
- Andorra
- United Arab Emirates
- Argentina
- Armenia
- American Samoa
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Burundi
- Belgium
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Bangladesh
- Bulgaria
- Bahrain
- Bahamas
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Belarus
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Barbados
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bhutan
- Botswana
- Central African Republic
- Canada
- Switzerland
- Chile
- China
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cameroon
- Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Cabo Verde
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Cayman Islands
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Germany
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Algeria
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Spain
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- Fiji
- France
- Micronesia
- Gabon
- United Kingdom
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guadeloupe
- Gambia
- Guinea-Bissau
- Equatorial Guinea
- Greece
- Grenada
- Greenland
- Guatemala
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- Hong Kong
- Honduras
- Croatia
- Haiti
- Hungary
- Indonesia
- India
- Ireland
- Iran
- Iraq
- Iceland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Cambodia
- Kiribati
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- South Korea
- Kuwait
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Saint Lucia
- Liechtenstein
- Sri Lanka
- Lesotho
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Latvia
- Macao
- Morocco
- Monaco
- Moldova
- Madagascar
- Maldives
- Mexico
- Marshall Islands
- North Macedonia
- Mali
- Malta
- Myanmar
- Montenegro
- Mongolia
- Mozambique
- Mauritania
- Montserrat
- Martinique
- Mauritius
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Namibia
- New Caledonia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Nicaragua
- Niue
- Norway
- Nepal
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Pitcairn
- Peru
- Philippines
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Poland
- Puerto Rico
- North Korea
- Portugal
- Paraguay
- Palestinian Territories
- French Polynesia
- Qatar
- Réunion
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Sudan
- Senegal
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Sierra Leone
- El Salvador
- San Marino
- Somalia
- Serbia
- South Sudan
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Suriname
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Sweden
- Eswatini
- Seychelles
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Chad
- Togo
- Thailand
- Tajikistan
- Tokelau
- Turkmenistan
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Tuvalu
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Uruguay
- United States of America
- Uzbekistan
- Vatican city
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Venezuela
- British Virgin Islands
- US Virgin Islands
- Vietnam
- Vanuatu
- Wallis and Futuna
- Samoa
- Kosovo
- Yemen
- South Africa
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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