Documents and publications - Asylum policy and immigration
1. Police crack down on illegal aliens
The police will step up its supervision of aliens in order to reduce illegal residence. This year the Aliens Police will transfer ...
2. Mandatory fingerprinting for residence permit applications
Storing biometric information – digitised fingerprints and passport photos – in a central database makes it easier to check the ...
3. 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 ...
4. 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 ...
5. 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 ...
6. 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 ...
7. 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 ...
8. Full mobile controls by Border Police reinstated
As of 1 June 2011, the Royal Military and Border Police will be reinstating full mobile controls behind the borders with Belgium ...
9. IND steps up oversight of au pair agencies
The Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) has intensified its monitoring of seven of the twenty au pair agencies with which ...
10. Civil action against forced marriage
The Cabinet wants to improve marriage freedom by further reducing forced marriages and restricting the recognition of marriages ...