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Hi everyone,

I am planning to apply for Belgian citizenship once I receive my L card in the middle of this month.

Has anyone in this forum applied recently, perhaps toward the end of last year, and is expecting feedback early this month or within the next few months? If so, I would appreciate it if you could share your timeline.

Please feel free to use the template below:

1. Application Region:

2. Application Date:

3. Requested Documents:

4. Additional Information:

5. Approval Date:

Thank you in advance for sharing your experience.

Dear all,

Application region: Brussels – Ixelles commune

Application date: 11/09/2025

Documents submitted:

    •    Birth certificate

    •    Language certificate (A2)

    •    Integration certificate

    •    5 years of individual rekening

Status: Waiting for approval

Has anyone else applied in the Ixelles commune?

Also, has anyone who applied in September 2025 already received approval?

Please share your timeline.

Thank you in advance.

Hello All ,

I have an appointment next week for my Nationality application. I already made the payment of 1000 euro through MyMinFin after I booked the appointment. Today, I noticed that that it has been increased to 1030 (indexed) and this is also confirmed on MyMinFin.

Will my 1000 payment receipt be sufficent and accepted? Of course, I'm willing to pay the  additonal 30 if required, but i want to avoid any delays because of this small difference. I checked and it doesnt seems possible to pay the extra 30 trough MyMinFin before my appoinment,

If the 1000 is accepable, then thats great I'ill save 30 

Any one applied or going to apply for nationality this or next week? please let me know.

Thank you in advance.

@dakbak

I suggest you to Call the Myminfin service to have confirmation

@Tanvirul Hoque

Is the language requirement and social integration now mandatory even if one has 5 years of continuous work?

@Srizzy

Normally No, I gave all documents to be safe side.

@dakbak

Better to pay. Otherwise it will delay your process if they say you need to pay.

@Tanvirul Hoque

yes, I already looked to pay. No option to pay 30 other than paying entire 1030.

As @smlg suggested, I contacted Myminfin and waiting for their response.

@callonafo

I see that your L card will be available middle of this month. I also applied and I’m waiting for the reply of OE. May i ask when did you apply and when did OE checked your national register ? You can see it in Mydossier if you have a card reader.

I applied on 5th December 2025, and I’ve seen that OE checked my national register on 17th December, so I thought I would get an answer not too long after they checked my register.

@@Tomkar

Regarding the L-card, I received an email from the Antwerp commune at Deurne on 25 September 2025. Attached to the email were three documents:

Bijlage 16

Bijlage 16bis

An invitation informing me that I will be notified of the decision

The last document indicates an appointment scheduled for 22 January 2026 to visit the commune, most likely for additional payment and the collection date of the L-card.

As for my wife, she has already held an L-card since July last year and applied for Belgian nationality on 10 October 2025. She was informed that the court process would take approximately four months. Based on this timeline, she may receive a decision by the first or second week of February. This month marks the third month of the process, and there has been no police visit so far. The documents submitted by my wife were:

1. Integration certificate
2. Language certificate (Netherlands A2)
3. 4 years individual accounts
4. All monthsly payslips from January 2025 till September 2025
5. Payment confirmation from Mijnfin (luckily she made payement in same July (150 Euros), and it was accepted in October despite the payment had be increased to 1000 Euros)
6. Birth certificate translated+Apostiled
7. Unlimited residence card
8. Passport

@dakbak

I really do not think that you would need to pay the difference. That was the case for my wife when she paid 150Euros in July, and submitted her documents in October when the payment has been increase to 1000Euros. She was not asked to pay the difference and her documents were collected. However as mentioned by other best to check with MyMinfin or your commune.

Timeline of my one of my recent clients:

1. Application Region

West Flanders

2. Application Date

17/09/2025

3. Requested Documents

Birth cerificate, A2 Dutch certificate, Attest from Liantis confirming she has been zelfstandige for last 1.5 years, receipts from bank confirming she paid 6 quarters of sociale bijdragen, Attest van Inburgering, BETALINGSBEWIJS NATIONALITEITSAANVRAAG.

4. Additional Information

She is self-employed, not married, paid fee of 150 in May. Police came to her address 1 month after application date, interview was very short, respectful and formal, in Dutch, took about 3 minutes.

5. Approval Date

06/01/2026

So processing the application took nearly four full months. This happened despite many experts guessing that applications would drop after August and take only a few weeks to process.

I have inside information from two communes that the number of applications actually increased after August. People are perfectly willing to pay the €1,000 fee. The price hike didn't really work as a matter of fact, because the difference between €150 and €1,000 isn't that big for people living in Belgium, considering our cost of living. What actually matters is the huge wave of migration from 5–7 years ago, those numbers were very high, even during Covid.

@Mia0210

The language requirement + integration s in effect for everyone regardless of the years worked?

@Srizzy

Nope. If your worked/been zelfstandige for 5 consecutive years, both language and integration requirements are not applicable.