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Recently someone mailed me from abroad and said he had the feeling the local staff at t he Dutch embassy was only giving out visa to people they knew. What to do? What might be an option is to file a complaint at the Dutch Immigration Service about this practice. One can do so by sending a complaint to: Immigration and Naturalisation Service, P.O. Box 10, 7600 AA ALMELO,The Netherlands by using this form: https://ind.nl/Documents/Complaints_form.pdf But can it not be the case that someone keeps submitting visa-requests that have a hidden fault? That is why another possibility (and I think one one should try first) is to appeal against the refusal. That might do the trick. The thing is visa can be denied for several reasons. One of the main reasons is "danger to overstay". There are some tools to avoid that: To show that people have all the intention of going back because they have social ties with family and friends back home and economic ties why it is...

28.03.2012 ECRE and CIR press conference: "Reaching Europe in Safety: The possibility to seek asylum through an embassy saved my life" On Wednesday 28 March ECRE and the Italian Council for Refugees (CIR) organised a Breakfast Press Briefing on the occasion of the launch of the report “ Exploring avenues for protected entry procedures (PEPs) in Europe ”. The report examines complementary forms of access to asylum in Europe from abroad and is based on the experience collected from various European countries, as well as interviews with stakeholders at national and EU level. The conference was an opportunity to become better acquainted with the experience of those for whom seeking asylum through embassies abroad to leave the countries where their lives were in danger was the only possibility to find safety. ECRE’s Acting Secretary Ge...