Some 5,800 people came to the Netherlands to work under the highly-skilled migrant (kennismigrant) scheme last year, including a record 1,880 academics, the Dutch immigration service IND said in its annual report, published recently.
Most highly-skilled migrants came from India (2,020) followed by the
US (780), Japan (360) and China (230), the IND said. People from outside
the EU can come to the Netherlands as a ‘knowledge migrant’ to work for
an established company if they earn more than €51,000 a year.
Last year, the IND carried out 46 checks to make sure knowledge migrant
wages were not being inflated in order to give people easier access to
the Netherlands. In 25 cases, permits were not granted.
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