Client Success Stories

We landed on a Tuesday and had the keys to a canal-side apartment by Friday.

Vikram’s offer at Backbase came with a six-week start date and we were getting married three weeks before. Sherianne handled the IND highly-skilled migrant route, the 30% ruling, and our entire Amsterdam housing search in parallel. The whole thing felt less like a relocation and more like having a very competent friend on the ground.

She walked me through the BSN appointment in Dutch so I didn’t have to.

Moving to a country whose language I didn’t speak felt risky. Home.Made did my IND filings, my gemeente registration, my BSN, my Dutch bank account, my zorgverzekering — and came with me to the appointments where I actually had to be there. Nine weeks from offer letter to first day at the office.

Three kids, two schools, one very patient relocation team.

Getting two international schools, a daycare, and family visas aligned across two countries felt impossible from Lagos. Sherianne coordinated everything from her side — school tours over video call, registration paperwork pre-filled, even the kids’ fietsen waiting in the hallway when we arrived. Our youngest had her first day of school four days after we landed.

We thought we were too old for this. Sherianne thought otherwise.

After forty years in the same Surrey house, deciding what to bring was paralysing. Sherianne came over, made tea, and helped us decide. She handled the customs declarations, the residence permits as Brits post-Brexit, and found us a ground-floor apartment in Haarlem with a south-facing garden. We should have done this a decade ago.

DJTT visa, 30% ruling, lab housing — all sorted before I’d finished my thesis.

The Japan-Netherlands treaty paperwork is famously fiddly, and I was trying to defend my thesis at the same time. Home.Made handled the DJTT application, the BV setup, the 30% ruling, and found me a place a fifteen-minute bike ride from the lab. I landed on a Sunday and walked into the office Monday morning.

They negotiated my lease in Dutch while I was still asleep.

The eight-hour time difference made apartment hunting impossible until Home.Made was doing viewings on my behalf. Video walkthroughs landed in my inbox every evening, Sherianne negotiated the makelaar fees down, and I walked into a furnished flat in Kralingen with my name on the buzzer and the wifi already working.

Coming back after twelve years was harder than leaving.

Repatriation gets talked about much less than emigration, but it has its own knots. The kids had never lived in the Netherlands and didn’t speak Dutch. We needed personnummer-equivalents, an international school, and someone to translate twelve years of Australian paperwork for the gemeente. Sherianne walked us through every step with patience we genuinely didn’t deserve.

Two visas, two timelines, one coordinator who made it look easy.

We needed the DAFT visa for Daniel and the highly-skilled migrant route for me — totally different agencies, totally different timelines. Sherianne kept both tracks moving in parallel and we landed in Amsterdam the same week. Our cat Dakota was waiting for us at the apartment, courtesy of Home.Made’s pet team.