News - Asylum policy
135 news items on Asylum policy
Rejected Albanians returned quicker
From now on, illegal Albanians can also be deported in groups with government flights. This has been agreed upon by the ...
Expanded options for housing asylum seekers with a residence permit
Housing associations will temporarily be allowed to house asylum seekers who hold a residence permit in buildings that they do ...
Government takes long-term measures to deal with increased refugee influx
A more targeted approach by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) faster rejection of asylum applications that are ...
Government: staying means participating
Refugees with a residence permit must start participating in Dutch society as soon as possible. Learning the Dutch language and ...
Autumn Memorandum 2015: additional funding to deal with influx of asylum seekers
The Dutch government's 2015 Autumn Memorandum on the current budget year reveals that the government expects 58,000 asylum ...
State Secretary Dijkhoff toughens policy on revoking or refusing asylum
Granting asylum to someone who committed serious offences is unacceptable." This was announced today by the State Secretary of ...
Asylum influx stable, but high
During the week from Monday 16 to Sunday 22 November, around 1700 asylum seekers came to the Netherlands, just as the week ...
Influx of asylum seekers last week 1700
In the past week -- from Monday 9 to Sunday 15 November -- approximately 1700 asylum seekers came to Netherlands. In the first ...
Van der Steur and Dijkhoff meet Euro Commissioner Avramopoulos
Ministers Van der Steur and Dijkhoff and Commissioner Avramopoulos met in The Hague today to discuss the upcoming shared ...
State Secretary Dijkhoff and his German colleagues discuss migration
State Secretary Klaas Dijkhoff today visited German Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière and State Secretary Stefanie ...