@David *******

Correct, that is also the reason you get the visa, the training for soft power is your purpose of stay the visa is granted for, without training no valid purpose of stay anymore.

Technically a 6 months course does not justify a 5 year visa, the visa is only valid when you are enrolled in a soft power activity.

A number of people here do believe when they are approved for the visa all requirements are void from that moment on, but nobody until now could point ot where that is described.

When you ask the embassy where you got the visa what are the requirements at subsequent entries they will tell you they are exactly the same as at moment of approval, and that it is up to border immigration offcials to decide what they need to check.

The checks at approval are only meant to check if it is trustworthy that you need a visa for a longer time.

So technically there is also no need to issue DTV visa for a shorter period if you have a shorter training, simply because when the training ends, your purpose of stay does not match the visa, what makes it illegal to use the visa at that moment.

At the moment there are not much checks at entry of the country, that can stay the same for years, but can also change very soon.

There is no change of rules necessary for that, only change of guidelines for border immigration officers.

@Todd ********

Fast Track is not related to a type of visa, it is for saving time, or hiding not complying to rules, no matter which visa or visa exemption.

PastelParsnip8198 When people are here on a visa without complying the rules, you can hardly say they are here with good intentions, but to me that is of no interest, everybody decides for himself to obey laws or not. I just mention official rules, not that it is easy to ignore rules.

@Christopher **********

I am not contradicting any of my previous posts, and yes at each entry you should comply to all visa requirements, that is for all visa, there is not some magic exception rule for DTV. No idea where this fairytale comes from, but everybody spreading this info fails to show any proof of this magic exception for DTV.

@Christopher **********

Indeed the DTV itself is valid for 5 years, but you are only allowed to enter the country when you comply to the requirements the moment you enter. No further requirements, just exactly the same as from the beginning.

@John ********

Everyone that does not comply with the rules indeed should be weeded out because they do not belong to the target group (anymore), but it is an illusion that will work without extra checks at entrance of the country, and those checks are not practically at the border. And since they made the visa multi entry, it will be difficult weeding out those.

Even look here how many openly tell they don't comply with the requirements anymore and still use the visa.

@Christopher **********

Of course there is no limit to travel, and also nobody can force you to enroll in a future course when the qualifying course ended, but according MFA and Immigration you are not allowed to enter on the DTV when you don;t comply with visa rules anymore.

@Todd ********

I know it is difficult for some people but in this very same post somebody tells he was asked to show his bank account, but I guess you don't believe that either because it does not fit with the fairytale in your brain.

@Todd ********

I agree the visa requirements clearly show what you require, one of them is 500K in a bank account, so that is required during the whole visa period unless you find other info somewhere else, but I bet you fail again, over and over.

And yes there is no list that tells you don't require 500K, the list requires you need 500K, but somehow in your mind there is something that tells that you don't need 500 k, but since you cannot proof that with facts you declare others as absolute buffoon, to hide the fact that you cannot prove your imagination.

Rest of your info is also rubbish, it does not rain in Netherlands, it is snowing, but for you that might also be not understandable, just like you don't understand the word requirement.

And why should I listen to a brainless guy and go to Netherlands, I don't like the snow, but also it is none of your business where I should go.