Author: Maggie Bisschop

On 30 March 2022, the Dutch State Secretary of Justice and Security informed the House of Representatives in a Parliamentary Letter about the implementation of the Temporary Protection Directive. In this Parliamentary Letter, the State Secretary discusses the conditions and procedure for legal residence and access to the labor market for people who have fled […]

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The Dutch government is working on introducing measures to provide temporary protection to persons fleeing Ukraine. While the exact details and conditions still need to be announced, there have been several measures already announced with regards to stay, work authorization and residence permit applications. Read more in our update: Work permit exemption for Ukrainians Stay in […]

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The Minister of Social Affairs and Employment has decided to terminate the special regulation for employing non-EU chefs in Asian restaurants (paragraph 19a Ruwav 2014).  The regulation was created to help ease a structural shortage of qualified chefs in the Asian catering industry. It offers a more flexible treatment of applications for a work permit or […]

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On July 7th 2021, it was announced that the 10.000 ‘pardon’ permit holders and their children will be exempted from the document requirement and will finally be able to obtain Dutch citizenship. This is fantastic news for all the participants in our project ‘Naturalization without documents’ that Everaert Advocaten started in 2019. A parliamentary majority already voted in […]

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“Take steps to make permit holders no longer second rate citizens.” An open letter from Elles Besselsen to State Secretary Broekers-Knol was published last Saturday, June 26th, in Het Parool. Elles describes how a large group of permit holders from the 2007 general pardon and their children, are still unable to obtain Dutch passports. Her appeal calls for a return to the policy that was in […]

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On April 20th, a majority of the Dutch Parliament once again voted in favor of a motion to exempt RANOV permit holders from the requirement to provide a passport and birth certificate when filing a naturalization request. The government was asked to implement this motion without waiting for the research of the Research and Documentation Center (WODC). […]

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After a majority of the Parliament voted in favor of the motion on February 9, 2021 to exempt RANOV permit holders from the requirement to provide a passport and a birth certificate when filing a naturalization application, State Secretary Broekers-Knol stands by her policy. Broekers-Knol has informed the Parliament that she considers it necessary to further investigate […]

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A majority of the Dutch Parliament voted on Tuesday 9 February in favour of the motion to exempt RANOV permit holders from the requirement to provide a passport and a birth certificate when filing a naturalization application. The Parliament hereby calls on the government to change the current policy. Under the current policy, this group of permit […]

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This week, two Dutch political parties (SP and CDA) intend to file a motion to pave the way for about 10.000 pardon permit holders to obtain Dutch citizenship. A majority of the parliament is in favor of this initiative. The pardon permit holders, who were granted residence permits by a general amnesty in 2007, couldn’t obtain Dutch […]

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Vera Kidjan represents about 500 persons who received a ‘pardon’ permit in the past, but 13 years later still cannot obtain Dutch citizenship. In total, about 10.000 people are in this same situation.  On 6 March 2021 Vera was asked to explain the problem on the radio show NOS Radio 1 Journaal. Read the article or listen to the broadcast here. (in Dutch) More […]

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