Registration BSN

Hi and welcome to the Forum.

BSN is the same thing no matter whether you have a temporary or permanent one; the only difference is the name of the database.  Some Gemeente's does not offer the temporary option.

Receipt of your BSN (and more importantly DigiD) letter does take a few weeks, but your BSN  number is on the screen in front of the civil servant as she fills in your details, just ask him/her to write down your number on a piece of paper so you can inform your employer.

As you've already been told by the Dutch Government, what you're contemplating is not legal, my advice would not be to do anything illegal, you can get into a lot of trouble in the Netherlands if you deliberately break the law.

Hope this helps.

Cynic

Expat Team

@Cynic Thank you.

I'm feeling a lot of pressure from HR
and the person who's dealing with my contract, I already showed them
that my appointment is booked, but they really want my BSN before I
start working. Even though they know that the city of Amsterdam can't
really help me because there's no availability sooner.

I am completely lost on what should I do... I can't seem to accommodate the needs of everyone

Hi again.

Then the reality is you can't legally start work.  There may be other issues this may cause you, but that won't change this fact.  Perhaps you should look for a different job.

Cynic

Expat Team