What is the format of Inburgeringsexamen at A2 or above at A2 minimum?

Accepted whether you obtained it under the 2013 law or the 2021 law, as long as it is at least A2.

What is the format of Staatsexamen NT2 Programma I or II at B1 or B2?

Accepted as a full exemption from the integration requirement for naturalisation.

You want to become a Dutch citizen

You are applying, or planning to apply, for Dutch nationality by naturalisation.

The short answer

There is no separate naturalisation exam. The requirement is the inburgeringsexamen at minimum A2, and a Staatsexamen NT2 Programma I or II diploma satisfies it too.

Who runs it

The IND decides your naturalisation application. The exams are run by DUO (A2) or CvTE (Staatsexamen NT2).

What you actually sit

Part	Level	Format
Inburgeringsexamen at A2 or above	A2 minimum	Accepted whether you obtained it under the 2013 law or the 2021 law, as long as it is at least A2.
Staatsexamen NT2 Programma I or II	B1 or B2	Accepted as a full exemption from the integration requirement for naturalisation.

Why this applies to you

The IND states the requirement as passing the inburgeringsexamen at language level A2. That is the floor, not the target, so anything above it also qualifies.
Most people applying for naturalisation already hold the diploma from their own integration years earlier, and do not sit anything new. The people who genuinely need to take an exam for this reason are those who were never required to integrate in the first place.
You may see reports that the requirement is moving from A2 to B1. As of today it has not. The change needs a revision of the Besluit naturalisatietoets, and the IND's own published guidance still states A2. Treat any specific start date you see as unconfirmed until it appears in the Staatsblad.

Money, deadlines and booking

If you are on the B1 route now, you are already going to exceed the naturalisation language requirement. You do not also need to sit the A2 exam.
Naturalisation has other conditions besides language, including how long you have lived here. Those are the IND's to explain, and they change; check their site rather than ours for your own case.

If you still need to sit an exam

Most people applying for naturalisation already hold a qualifying diploma and do not need to sit anything new. If you were never required to integrate and now need A2, Kora covers all five parts of the A2 inburgeringsexamen.

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Where this comes from

Every statement on this page is drawn from official Dutch government sources. We have linked each one so you can check it yourself, and so you can see what we could not verify: where an official source does not publish a figure, we leave it out rather than repeat a number from elsewhere.

Dutch integration rules change. If a source above now says something different from this page, the source is right and we want to know.

Kora is an independent study app. We are not DUO, CvTE or the IND, and we cannot book exams, process applications or make decisions about your case. For anything about your own situation, use the official sources linked above or contact your municipality.