Which information is recorded in the Non-residents Records Database (RNI)?

If you move abroad from the Netherlands, your personal data will be automatically transferred to the RNI. Read the information below to see which data that is.

If you moved from the Netherlands to another country before 1 October 1994, your data will not have been recorded in the RNI.

I moved abroad after 1 October 1994

If you moved from the Netherlands to another country on or after 1 October 1994 and deregistered from your municipality, the following data was automatically recorded in the RNI:

• name
• date of birth
• place of birth
• sex
• nationality
• citizen service number (BSN)
• residential address (or country of residence) outside the Netherlands
• email (if known)
• phone number (if known)
• temporary address in the Netherlands (if applicable)
• residence permit (if applicable).
• civil status (e.g. married or in a registered partnership)
• partner’s data (if applicable)
• children’s data (if applicable)
• parental responsibility (if applicable)
• parents’ data (if known)
• travel documents

I moved abroad before 1 October 1994

If you deregistered from a Dutch municipality before 1 October 1994, your data was not automatically transferred to the RNI.

If you haven’t registered at an RNI desk or through a government organisation since that time, your data won’t be in the RNI.

Check whether you are registered in the RNI

If you are not in the RNI, you can register. After you are registered in the RNI you will receive a citizen service number (BSN).

How can I register in the RNI?

If you were registered by the public body of Bonaire, St Eustatius or Saba, the following data is registered in the RNI:

• name
• date of birth
• place of birth
• sex
• nationality
• citizen service number (BSN)
• residential address on the island

If you registered at an RNI desk, the following data is recorded in the RNI:

• name
• date of birth
• place of birth
• gender
• nationality
• citizen service number (BSN)
• residential address (or country of residence) outside the Netherlands
• temporary address in the Netherlands (if applicable)
• email address (if known)
• telephone number (if known)
• residence permit (if applicable)

If you have been registered by the public body of Bonaire, St Eustatius or Saba, the following data will have been recorded in the RNI:

• name
• date of birth
• place of birth
• gender
• nationality
• citizen service number (BSN)
• residential address on the island

If you were registered in the RNI by a government organisation such as the Social Insurance Bank (SVB) or the Tax Administration (Belastingdienst), the following data is in the RNI:

• name
• date of birth
• place of birth
• sex
• citizen service number (BSN)
• residential address (or country of residence) outside the Netherlands
• email (if known)
• telephone number (if known)
• temporary address in the Netherlands (if applicable)
• residence permit (if applicable)