Indian in Holland

The Residence Permit is a very important document for all of us. From a legal point of view, this is usually the only Govt. approved form of identification (other than the Driving Licence) that we should carry with us (it is the law!). And if this is lost or stolen, you need to take action quickly. Below you will find the information on what actions to take. Preventive measure Here are a few things you can do to be ready in case your permit is lost or stolen. Archive a photo of the card Take photos of the front and the back of the card. You can refer to it when you need to report the loss of the card. Use your phone or the cloud to store this photo so that you can retrieve it when it is needed. Record your V Number  IND knows you not by name, but your V Number. This is the unique identifier for you. They use it in all communication with you. This is also printed on the back of your Residence Permit. Record this number in a (preferably more than one) safe place ...

Many Indians who come to the Netherlands get many letters that are in Dutch. It takes great effort to try to understand their content. Google Translate (and other services like it) can help us translate digitized content easily and with a good degree of accuracy, but its still hard to translate printed material. One option is always to seek the help of your colleagues, friends or neighbours, but sometimes it becomes one letter too many. Also, if the letter is personal, you may not want someone you know to read the contents. An option is to scan the documents you wish to get translated and digitize the content of the same. The way to do this is to run the scanned document through an OCR software. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. The idea is to convert the scanned document into digital content from which you can copy and paste sentences and paragraphs. This content can then be used as input to Google Translate. There are many OCR software available in the ...