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- Government to introduce stricter asylum and migration rules
- September 16 2011
The cabinet has approved five proposals made by Gerd Leers, Minister for Immigration and Asylum Policy, for tightening up asylum and migration policy.
- Measures in response to DigiNotar problem
- September 5 2011
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The government is working with the business community to analyse the potential consequences of the DigiNotar problem.
- Third international prize for Informal Pro-Active Approach Model
- July 12 2011
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The Informal Pro-Active Approach Model for government services, introduced by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, has received another international prize, its third in a matter of months.
- Leers: measures to stop Somali fraudsters successful
- July 7 2011
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In a letter to the House of Representatives, Minister for Immigration and Asylum Policy Gerd Leers reported today that the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) is successfully combating fraud and abuse by Somalis who follow their asylum-seeker relatives to the Netherlands.
- Integration policy based on Dutch values
- June 17 2011
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The government believes that Dutch society and the values it is based on should be central to integration policy.
- The Netherlands encourages developing countries to cooperate in return of aliens
- June 10 2011
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The Netherlands will be doing more to ensure that governments in developing countries cooperate constructively in the return of aliens.
- Full mobile controls by Border Police reinstated
- May 31 2011
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As of 1 June 2011, the Royal Military and Border Police will be reinstating full mobile controls behind the borders with Belgium and Germany.
- Diplomats can now use iris scanner at Schiphol
- May 25 2011
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Starting today, diplomats from anywhere in the world can make use of an iris scanner to pass through border controls at Schiphol. The same applies to senior officials at international organisations.
- IND steps up oversight of au pair agencies
- May 23 2011
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The Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) has intensified its monitoring of seven of the twenty au pair agencies with which it has cooperation agreements.
- Fewer asylum seekers and less family migration in 2010
- April 15 2011
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In 2010, 15,150 asylum applications were submitted, 1,000 fewer than in 2009. In both 2009 and 2010, the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) granted 45% of applications.
