Aruba work permits cannot be approved before medical results are registered

Medical clearance is a separate stage in the permit decision

Aruba employment-permit applicants who have completed other requirements can still be waiting on a necessary medical-record step. DIMAS explained on 12 February 2026 that the Communicable Diseases Department, DBZ, within Public Health is responsible for handling and evaluating the medical requirements once an application reaches that stage. This current follow-up does not present that February clarification as a new November policy.

The clarification says DIMAS cannot formally approve the permit until DVG/DBZ has completed and registered the medical information in the DIMAS system. Completing an examination and obtaining final immigration approval are therefore different milestones. If the file has reached this stage, establish whether the results have actually been forwarded and registered, rather than assuming that the absence of a decision means the employment evidence was rejected. DIMAS says it does not control the medical evaluation or the time DBZ needs to process the information.

Verify the current filing sequence instead of combining old instructions

The live DIMAS application portal displays a temporary policy notice effective from 24 April 2025: applicants no longer need to visit DPL for the labour-market test and may submit directly to DIMAS. However, DIMAS's separately published paid-employment page still describes obtaining a DPL statement first. These official instructions are not fully reconciled on the pages reviewed, so an applicant should confirm the applicable sequence for the particular case before arranging a preliminary visit.

The temporary portal notice should not be read as a guarantee that every first-time application or occupation is currently eligible. The portal offers a decision-tree tool for identifying the requested status, and requires scanned information, documents and relevant payments. Its processing indication depends on the request and completeness. Use the portal notice and the paid-employment resource to ask a precise question about the route and employer, retaining the answer for the application record. Neither page promises that an incomplete request will preserve a desired start date.

The paid-employment page separately identifies resident domestic staff as exempt from labour-market testing and directs readers to the specific conditions. That is a category distinction to verify, not evidence that residence permission or the medical stage is waived for domestic employment.

Match the document checklist to its stated category

DIMAS publishes an employment-in-paid-service checklist labelled Regular RRAV I, single, without guarantor under Track 4 and without family members. Its scope matters: applicants should not assume that this document covers dependants, every special programme or every first employment application. It requests a valid passport copy, relevant entry-stamp and visa pages, a recent photograph, personal declaration and curriculum vitae. It also identifies judicial documentation for an initial application and rules on its age, authentication and translation.

The same checklist says medical results, including the certificate, must be finalised and forwarded by the medical institution to the communicable-diseases department. That supports the distinction between attending the examination and having the immigration record ready for approval. Use the checklist assigned to the actual application to check document validity before commissioning replacements. Where the applicant uses an authorised representative, confirm the required authority and identity documents; appointing someone does not remove the need for the underlying medical and admission requirements.

Confirm charges, permission to work and the individual timetable

The government's first employment-residence application page quotes AWG 65 in administrative charges and AWG 1,200 in permit fees, excluding the security deposit. The RRAV I checklist also lists those base amounts and a variable nationality-related deposit. Confirm the current payment order and the amount applicable to the individual route before paying; those base charges should not be represented as the complete cost for every household or multi-year request.

The government's general work-and-residence guidance expressly says tourists cannot take paid employment with an Aruban employer. A pending application, an examination appointment or a fee receipt should not be treated as the required permission. The first-application page gives a ten-week processing indication, while the live portal makes timing dependent on case type and completeness. Neither establishes a guaranteed decision date. Plan the contractual start against actual approval and track separately the filing, requested documents, medical registration and final decision, using DIMAS for immigration questions and the designated health authority for the medical stage.