News item | 23-02-2022 | 12:53
DUO will resume the imposition of the integration obligation on family migrants no later than 1 March. The process for all integrators under the Civic Integration Act 2021 (Wi2021) will be restarted by 25 March at the latest. DUO had temporarily halted the process of imposing the integration obligation under the new law due to a complication.
The Wi2021 has been in effect since 1 January. However, integrators can also still be placed under the old law from 2013. That depends on the date on which they became subject to the integration requirement. If that is before 1 January 2022, then they fall under Wi2013. The regimes of both laws differ. Newcomers who integrate under the Wi2021 will receive guidance from the municipality during the integration process. Under the old Wi2013, newcomers have to arrange their integration themselves.
In mid-January it came to light that a number of persons subject to an integration obligation had been wrongly placed under the Integration Act 2021. They should have been covered by the 2013 law. At the request of Minister Karien van Gennip, DUO had temporarily halted the process. Since that time, SZW and partners in the implementation have worked hard on a solution. DUO has adjusted the systems no later than 1 March, so that family migrants can again receive a notification of their integration obligation. They can then get started with their integration.
For the other groups, including asylum status holders, this takes a little more time for the sake of care. This is partly due to a necessary adjustment in the data exchange between COA and DUO. They have processed this in their systems by 25 March at the latest. In addition, a solution is also being looked at for the integration obligations who were wrongly placed under the Wi2021 at the beginning of this year.
The House of Representatives will be informed when DUO has resumed the integration process.
More information, previous posts and relevant documents.