User talk:Fil-dutch

Fil-Dutch is a Filipino made word which means Filipino with Dutch blood or Dutch with Filipino blood. It can be Filipino who also got Dutch nationality. It can also mean that a person with Filipino and Dutch decent. For example, Dutch father and Filipino mother. Fil-Dutch can also be Dutch nationality with Filipino parents.

Filipinos have come to the Netherlands as nurses and seamstresses (1960s), seafarers (beginning in the 1970s), spouses in intercultural marriages, performing artists, students and political refugees (1980s), and au pairs and oil rig workers (1990).

According the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics, there were a total of 5462 Filipinos in the Netherlands in January 1996. The Filipino community estimates that there are between 7000 to 10,000 Filipino residents in the Netherlands, not counting the children of Filipino couples and mixed marriages. In addition, at least 300 Filipino seamen pass Dutch ports daily, and around 500 Filipinos work in the oil rigs in the North Sea. About 1500 Filipinas are in the country as au pairs (about a third of the total in the Netherlands).

As of now, there are at least 5,000 to 18,000 Filipinos who live in the Netherlands.

Most Filipinos live in the city Amsterdam, Den Haag, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Hoofddorp, and Almere.

Every year Filipinos celebrate the Philippines Independence in the Netherlands. During this day, hundreds of Filipinos all over the Netherlands gather together and enjoy the live concerts with Filipino artist as guess for the celebration. During this day, every Filipinos build tents and sale Filipino food and Filipino products.

Now a days, more and more Filipinos who now live in the Netherlands are married or living with their Dutch partners.

Since Philippines is not part of EU, it is important for all Filipino citizens to take the Civic Integration Exam (Inburgeringsexamen). Civic Integration Exam is important for all foreigners (non EU members) to get a residence permit to live and work in the Netherlands.

For requirements and procedures on how to live in the Netherlands you may go to the following websites:

IND IND Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken minbuza Netherlands Embassy to the Philippines Netherlands Embassy

Other helpful website:

Fil-Dutch

Popular Fil-Dutch


 * 1)  Jason de Jong
 * 2)  Emmanuel van Ruitenbeek
 * 3)  Kim Derek Cornel Regasa

--Fil-dutch (talk) 16:52, 5 March 2011 (UTC)