Corps Consulaire à Amsterdam
Corps Consulaire à Amsterdam membership is a privilege exclusively granted to credentialed Consular Officers living and/or working in Amsterdam. Membership, rights and privileges are by mutual recognition and in keeping with the spirit and aims of the Vienna Conventions of 1961 and 1963.
Who we are
Corps Consulaire à Amsterdam is a cooperation of Consuls General, Consuls and Vice Consuls, both career and honorary.
The mission of the cooperation is to promote and maintain optimal communication and contacts between the members of Corps Consulaire à Amsterdam and to develop good relations between the members of Corps Consulaire à Amsterdam and official Dutch authorities in order to promote the successful fulfilment of their responsibilities.
The title Consul is used to describe the official representative of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul’s own country, and to facilitate trade and friendship between the people of the country to whom he or she is accredited and the country of which he or she is a representative. Consuls further the development of commercial, economic, cultural and scientific relations between the sending State and the receiving State and otherwise promote friendly relations between them. There may be several Consuls, one in each of several main cities, providing assistance with bureaucratic issues to both the citizens of the consul’s own country travelling or living abroad, and to the citizens of the country in which the Consul resides who wish to travel to or trade with the Consul’s country.
What we do
The office of a Consul is termed a Consulate. A Consul of higher rank is termed a Consul General (CG), and his or her office a Consulate General. There are also Deputy Consuls General, Consuls (C) and Vice Consuls (VC). Consuls of various ranks may have specific legal authority for certain activities, such as notarizing documents. Aside from those outlined in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, there are few formal requirements outlining what a consular official must do. For example, for some countries, consular officials may be responsible for the issuance of visas; other countries may limit “consular services” to providing assistance to compatriots, legalization of documents, etc.
The activities of a Consulate include protecting the interests of their citizens temporarily or permanently resident in the host country, issuing passports to citizens and issuing visas to foreigners and also public diplomacy. In addition, another principal role of a Consulate has traditionally been the promotion of trade and provision of assistance to companies seeking to invest and to import and export goods and services both to their home country and to their host country.
Some Consuls are not career officials (career consul) of the represented state at all. Such a Consul (Honorary Consul) may well combine the job with his or her own (often commercial) private activities, and in some instances may not even be a citizen of the sending country.
Expats
https://www.iamsterdam.com/en/live-work-study/in-amsterdam/official-expat-centers-in-the-netherlands
https://internationallocals.nl/
News
https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/amsterdam
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cj5pd6qpe7vt
https://www.amsterdam.nl/en/news/
https://www.dutchnews.nl/category/amsterdam/
