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See\n",[142,151,153],{"href":152},"\u002Fen\u002Fguide\u002Fcollecting-your-residence-permit-card","collecting-your-residence-permit-card"," for why\nthis date, not your flight date, is the one that starts your permitted tasks.",[125,156,157,158,161],{},"Take out Dutch health insurance within ",[137,159],{"value":160},"fact:health-insurance-deadline",".",[125,163,164,165,168,169,173],{},"Take the tuberculosis test within ",[137,166],{"value":167},"fact:tb-test-deadline",", if your nationality is not exempt.\nSee ",[142,170,172],{"href":171},"\u002Fen\u002Fguide\u002Fthe-tb-test-at-the-ggd","the-tb-test-at-the-ggd"," for both nationality branches and\nwhy the clock runs from the permit date, not your arrival date.",[125,175,176],{},"If you hold an EU or EEA passport, the residence permit card and the TB test do not apply to\nyou at all: you never enter the IND process. 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