News item | 06-02-2025 | 18:23
Minister Faber (asylum and migration) will act stricter against asylum seekers who cause nuisance or submit a disadvantaged application. They end up in a stricter regime where they must be permanently available for the process and procedures are faster, Faber expects. She announced the measures during a working visit to Ter Apel and discussions with the municipalities of Emmen and Westerwolde.
Faber: “With this stricter approach, we can quickly request requests from nuisance providers and disadvantaged asylum applications. We keep this group off the street and with that we immediately limit the nuisance. With that we tackle problems in Budel and Ter Apel. Moreover, it causes less pressure on the reception, because asylum seekers no longer have the right to reception after a rejection and immediately have to go back to the country of origin. ”
Asylum seekers who come from a safe country and therefore submit a disadvantaged asylum application must report twice a day. If that measure has insufficient effect, an intensive program will follow at a stricter supervision location, with the aim of changing the behavior of the people. Nuisance providers immediately end up in a stricter supervisory location. Faber maps the preconditions to impose extra freedom restrictions on nuisance people who persist, place these people in a so -called process availability location. In addition, there is the possibility to place asylum seekers in a enforcement and supervisory location, or in a detention center.
New pilot
The pilot process availability approach is a restart of the previously started pilot with the process availability location. That pilot was stopped after a judge’s judgment. By having the new approach start with a reporting obligation and an intensive day program, there is now sufficient legal grounds for the stricter approach.
For more information, read the Parliamentary letter about the Pilot Process Availability Approach.