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Refugees may be given asylum in the Netherlands if they face persecution in their own country on account of their race, religion, nationality or beliefs.
Immigrants who want to come to the Netherlands to work or study or to join family members, for instance, must satisfy a range of conditions. One example is that aliens who want to study in the Netherlands have to pay all the costs involved. Every application for a residence permit is assessed on its own merits.
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News
Experiment with statements of competence for asylum seekers
A government pilot project launched today will make it possible for successful asylum seekers who cannot prove that they passed ...
The Netherlands favours stricter rules for family migration
The Netherlands wants EU member states to have the scope to impose stricter rules on prospective family migrants.
The Netherlands won’t send Eritrean asylum seekers back
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The Netherlands' biggest immigrant group are workers from the EU
Since the EU labour market was opened for residents of the Central and East European member states, work has become the main ...
Leers seeks Italy’s support on European asylum and migration policy
Yesterday in Rome, Minister for Immigration, Integration and Asylum Policy Gerd Leers asked Italy’s interior minister, Anna Maria ...
Documents and publications
Letter to the House of Representative concerning camera support for mobile supervision operations
Letter of 23 December 2011 from the Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations to the House of Representatives concerning ...
Speech by Gerd Leers on Refugees and Migration, Club of The Hague
Your Highness, Ladies and gentlemen, I bid you all a warm welcome to the Peace Palace. Today, as you know, is 22 November. A ...
Government to introduce stricter asylum and migration rules
The cabinet has approved five proposals made by Gerd Leers, Minister for Immigration and Asylum Policy, for tightening up asylum ...
The Netherlands encourages developing countries to cooperate in return of aliens
The Netherlands will be doing more to ensure that governments in developing countries cooperate constructively in the return of ...
Parliamentary Letter of 10 June 2011 presenting the new emphasis of migration and development policy
Letter to parliament of 10 June 2011 from the Minister for European Affairs and International Cooperation and the Minister for ...
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