The 360 people who can no longer go to the application center in Ter Apel, will in any case be taken care of the next night in Oss, Amsterdam and Nijmegen. According to the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA), there are 80 refugees in Oss.
Since Tuesday, no more than 2000 asylum seekers are allowed to stay in the application center in Ter Apel. The large tents in which people were accommodated and slept are being demolished. As a result, a place to sleep for three hundred people had to be found. State Secretary Eric van der Burg (Asylum) said earlier Tuesday that he could not guarantee that he would find all those places, but Tuesday evening it turned out that he succeeded.
It has been busy in Ter Apel lately and there were more people than the 2000 for whom there is officially room. The Groningen Security Region called the situation at the registration center worrying at the end of March.
Asylum seekers cannot move on to one of the 111 asylum seekers’ centers. They are full, partly because about 13,000 status holders are waiting for a home.