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Both articles I copied from the governmental website of the IND. Make sure however that you are registered at your local Gemeentehuis and at the IND because to give you leave to remain the Dutch government has to know you were here before the UK left the EU. Right of residence transition scheme for British citizens in the Netherlands January 8, 2019 ​The Dutch government has decided that, in the event of a no-deal Brexit, British citizens and their families who are lawfully resident in the Netherlands prior to 29 March will be entitled to live, work and study in the Netherlands for at least another 15 months. This transition scheme will also apply to family members of British citizens who do not hold EU citizenship themselves. During this 15-month period, the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) will...

Big tears slowly dropped down. She had come to The Netherlands with her EU boyfriend and he had said she did not need a residence permit. She was not having a job but kept the household spot and span. All finances were taking care of by her boyfriend. But then after many years the relationship ended and she applied for her own residence permit. "Can you prove you have been living in the Netherlands as a common law wife of an EU resident for at least 5 years?" asked the Dutch Immigration Service IND. And with a boyfriend who had done all the paperwork, who had not seen the need to register at the municipality or at the IND that turned out to be bloody difficult. Do you need to register at the IND to be legal in The Netherlands when you are a wife, husband, boyfriend or girlfriend of someone from another EU country?  No you do not. Under Regulation 2004/38/eu a foreign spouse, husband or registered partner has a direct right to stay in the EU country his or her EU lover has...

Resettlement Every year the Netherlands invites about five hundred refugees to settle in our country. Most of these refugees come from refugee camps. COA makes the preparations for their arrival in the Netherlands. COA also maintains contacts with the municipalities that will house them. Refugees Many refugees flee to a refugee camp or a city in the region where they come from, usually in a neighbouring country. Eritrean refugees, for example, flee to a Kenyan refugee camp and Iraqi refugees to Beirut, in Lebanon. After a while some refugees can return to their country of birth or become integrated in their new country, although this is far from always the case. Resettlement programme The UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, has implemented a programme for refugees who cannot return to their homes and are not safe in the region where they fled. This programme offers the refugees an opportunity to settle in another country. The Netherlands is affiliated with...

“Taliban kill us by bullets, the Dutch authorities kill us by waiting in the camps. It’s like death in installments” This is what Gulnar, 23 and a mother of three year old daughter named Malala told me in a refugee camp in the Netherlands. At three months pregnant, she set out on her journey from Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, in the first week of August 2013. She told me her story in broken English in the camp at TerApel and later in the camp at Arnhem. She only speaks Dari, a language spoken in Afghanistan along with Pashto, even though her father is a Pashtun from Jalalabad. Her mother belongs to the Herat province. She went from Kabul to Herat by car with her daughter by way of a human smuggler locally called an ‘agent’. They walked for four hours to enter Iran. She said her husband paid 10,000 Euro to the agent to take her to Europe. She stayed in Turkey for a week, along with 11 more people belonging to different nationalities li...

(This is a work-in-progress document. It has been years since I had to bill at a lawfirm and had to look the amounts up online so if I wrote down things incorrectly please add a comment stating what has to be changed and I can take care of that) When an asylum-seeker arrives in The Netherlands and declares he (or she) wants to seek asylum he will be moved to a special center where his case will be processed. Every asylumseeker is given a lawyer without having to pay for that lawyer. This has been standing practice for many many years in The Netherlands predating the Proceduredirective. He will also be able to ask assistance from a charity that helps asylumseekers, called Vluchtelingenwerk, as that has an office in all the asylumcenters ( http://www.vluchtelingenwerk.nl/english ). And when he is informed that his request is rejected and his appeal (most of them will try till the last resort) there will be all kind of charities (funded by the government and private f...

 "Wat betekent dat?" "Wat vieren jullie Christenen nou precies met Pasen?" "Waarom beginnen de meeste Nederlanders gezamelijk met eten?" "Hoe ziet het er in de rest van Nederland (buiten de stad) uit?" Allemaal vragen die mijn buurvrouw aan me stelt boven een kopje thee. En ook mijn oud cliente loopt zich soms dat soort dingen af te vragen. Ook al heb je nog zo je best gedaan op een inburgercursus precies weten wat nou het "Waarom, waar en wat" in een nieuw land is duurt gewoon langer. Vandaar dit blog. Met dingen die ikzelf opmerkelijk vind aan Nederland en waar de buurvrouw en ik over zouden praten onder de thee. Bijdragen van jullie zijn van harte welkom op webmaster @ vreemdelingenrecht.com. http://houdenvanholland.blogspot.nl/ Interessant artikel? Deel het eens met uw netwerk en help mee met het verspreiden van de bekendheid van dit blog. Er staan wellicht nog meer artikelen op dit weblog die u zullen boeien. Kijk ...

Het Dordrechts Museum treft voorbereidingen voor de tentoonstelling Holland op z’n mooist – Het voorjaar van de Haagse School. Deze tentoonstelling laat bezoekers kennismaken met de Haagse School en toont de wortels en invloeden van de succesvolle kunststroming. Tijdens deze expositie zijn onder meer topstukken te zien van Jozef Israëls, Willem Roelofs, de gebroeders Maris en Anton Mauve, die zelden worden getoond. Het grote schilderij ‘Dromen’ van Jozef Israëls, dat lange tijd als verloren werd beschouwd, is een van de iconen van de tentoonstelling. Het schilderij werd in 1860 verkocht naar Amerika en pas in 2013 weer herontdekt op een veiling in New York. Lees meer hier:  http://historiek.net/tentoonstelling-over-schilders-hollands-landschap/48656/ De tentoonstelling ‘Holland op z’n mooist. Het voorjaar van de Haagse School’ loopt van 5 april 2015 t/m 6 september 2015 *********************************************** Geen kans om naar het museum te gaan? En toch eens...

 Refugee family, daughter to be reunited after 4-year separation An Eritrean family that's been torn apart since a daughter went missing four years ago will finally be reunited in St. John's, as the federal government has granted the daughter a temporary resident visa. Genet Abraham, a refugee from Eritrea, managed to get to Canada with her two younger daughters. But her oldest daughter, Selam, now 20, went missing four years ago when she was abducted from a Libyan refugee camp. On Friday, Liberal MP Gerry Byrne told the family over the phone that they'll finally be back together. "Minister Chris Alexander, the minister for citizenship and immigration in Canada, has agreed in principle to issue a temporary resident visa to you, Selam," he said. "And I think...as soon as the final documentation is complete, you should be planning to purchase a one-way plane ticket to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada." ...

For Whom? For newly arrived expats (and expat partners) to give them a head start when settling into Dutch society. Aimed at people who want to make the best of their stay in the Netherlands and who want to get to grips with the Dutch quickly. What do I get? Participants will receive an introduction to the Dutch language, as well as practical information on the Dutch labour market and Dutch culture. This workshop provides the participants with all they need to know to make their stay in the Netherlands a success. How Much? This full day workshop costs 185 Euros ex VAT (224.95 Euros incl. VAT) per person, including lunch and drinks. Where? The workshop takes place at our lovely office in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Questions? Feel free to contact Nannette Ripmeester via n.ripmeester[at]labourmobility .com or ring us at the office (+31 (0)104 776 816). http://www.labourmobility.com/ workshops-corporate/expats/ In verband met geldwolven die denken geld te kunn...

Some 5,800 people came to the Netherlands to work under the highly-skilled migrant ( kennismigrant ) scheme last year, including a record 1,880 academics, the immigration service IND said in its annual report , published on Tuesday. The total is up slightly on 2010, the IND said. Most highly-skilled migrants came from India (2,020) followed by the US (780), Japan (360) and China (230), the IND said. People from outside the EU can come to the Netherlands as a 'knowledge migrant' to work for an established company if they earn more than €51,000 a year. Last year, the IND carried out 46 checks to make sure knowledge migrant wages were not being inflated in order to give people easier access to the Netherlands. In 25 cases, permits were not granted. The list of companies which fall under the scheme has also been cut from 6,000 to 1,500 by weeding out firms which have not participated for some time. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/03/more_highlyskilled_migr...

Market gardeners in the south of the country say they will take social affairs minister Henk Kamp to court if he does not change his mind over work permits for Romanians by 17.00 hours on Monday, news agency ANP reports. The growers – largely orchard owners and strawberry farmers – rely on some 2,000 Romanian seasonal workers to bring in the harvest. Kamp said in March he will not agree to any more permits for people from Romania from July 1. The growers should use local unemployed workers instead, news agency ANP quotes him as saying. The growers’ organisation ZLTO says the minister is wrong to change policy in the middle of the season and that his action threatens their contracts with the retail sector. Bron:  http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2011/04/farmers_threaten_minister_with.php Law blog