For the time being, the Netherlands will stop financial aid for reintegration for Mongolians who return to their country. This year there are so many requests for help with the return of persons from Mongolia, that the ministry has arisen the suspicion of ‘improper use’. David van Weel (asylum, VVD) announced this on Wednesday in a letter To the Lower House.
Foreign nationals can get help from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Return and Departure (DT&V) Department (DT&V), for example when getting the right travel documents. Flight tickets are also financed and the returners receive 200 euros in cash before departure.
In addition, they can be eligible for an amount of up to 2,600 euros – of which at least 2,000 euros in material help – as support in the reintegration in the country of origin. A condition is that these people intended to settle in the Netherlands for a long time.
This is not the case with most Mongolians who have requested return aid this year, according to signals that the Ministry has received. For example, up to and including June this year, more than three hundred people with the Mongolian nationality left with the return aid, while there were only 41 asylum applications up to and including May 2025, figures from the immigration and naturalization service show.
The IOM suspects that a large part of the Mongolians who report before return does this shortly after arrival in the Netherlands. Because this is difficult to check for the organization, the amount for reintegration will in any case no longer be paid out to people from Mongolia in the coming six months. Other forms of return aid remain available to them, “so that any practical barriers do not get in the way of the return,” the minister writes.
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