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Recently someone mailed me from abroad and said he had the feeling the local staff at the 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 obvi...

7:00am Wednesday 28th November 2012 in Bradford By Dolores Cowburn , Bradford Chief Reporter Fishane Nkhata The issue of failed asylum seekers being deported back to countries where they risk being raped and tortured will be the focus of a Bradford conference this week. Why Refugee Women?, an organisation created to help female asylum seekers, will launch a petition at the event at Kala Sangam, Forster Square, urging the Home Office to take women’s human rights into account more when deciding whether they can stay in the UK. In Bradford there are 135 female asylum seekers and more than three-quarters of them have had their cases rejected, which means they could eventually be sent home to danger zones. Eighty asylum s...