Asylum and migration
Asylum seekers, COA and reception centres, the dispersal law, status holders, deportations, migration policy.
Stories on asylum and migration
- JA21 and asylum minister still split on forcing municipalities to take asylum seekers
- Netherlands gives €15 million this year to help rebuild Syria
- Groningen takes in families with young children from Ter Apel
- Senate ends asylum penalty payments and passes stricter return law
- Cabinet holds off on dispersal-law action against councils that open emergency asylum shelter
- Asylum arrivals in the Netherlands were about 910 in week 41
- Twenty asylum seekers slept outside in Ter Apel; no one slept rough on Saturday night
- Terneuzen council approves permit for asylum centre in former Neckermann office
- Van den Brink proposes prison sentences for migrants who obstruct their own deportation
- Thousands of fines for asylum seekers on Zwolle-Emmen line stay invalid
- 63 municipalities under supervision for housing too few asylum seekers
- COA warns of acute shortage of beds for asylum seekers