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Red Cross volunteers speaking with people arriving at the asylum registration center in Ter Apel, May 2026
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New asylum system set to launch amid ongoing pressure at primary reception center
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Afghanistan flags wave over an anti-Taliban rally in Rotterdam. August 21, 2021
Politics
Netherlands to grant asylum to most Afghan women and girls under new policy
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A Syrian family walks through Schiphol Airport before departing the Netherlands.
Politics
Netherlands looking to send asylum seekers back to “safe” parts of Syria
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Debate center De Balie in Amsterdam
PoliticsCultureArt
Netherlands denies entry to Russian artist fleeing the Kremlin over asylum request fears
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Sign at the entrance of the Ter Apel registration center.
PoliticsBusiness
Right-wing Cabinet’s €40 mil. asylum screening office closed after a year; 120 jobs cut
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An asylum shelter in Zeewolde
Politics
Netherlands rejected 56% more asylum applications in 2025
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An asylum shelter in Zeewolde
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Third fewer asylum applications in first 9 months of the year
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Woman playing with two young children at a playground
Business
Immigration service revokes au pair agency Nina Care's license
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An asylum shelter in Zeewolde
Politics
Syrians not the largest group of new asylum seekers for first time since 2016
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Dr. Andre Geim speaking about graphene on 17 October 2012
PoliticsTechScience
Netherlands down a Nobel Prize as winner loses his Dutch nationality
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A Koninklijke Marechaussee officer
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Dutch border police used force against children ten times in deportations last year
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Empty beds in a shelter
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Third-country nationals have to leave the Netherlands by October
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Children playing in a fountain in an Enschede park
Business
Netherlands biggest au pair agency about to lose its license over abuses
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Rainbow flags hanging from windows in Amsterdam
HealthPolitics
Dozens of LGBTQIA+ Americans have fled to Netherlands since Trump took office
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Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber after a debate in Parliament on a vote of no-confidence against her. 2 April 2025
Politics
Asylum distribution law will likely only be scrapped at the end of 2026
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Dutch-born child Mikael, an 11-year-old living with his mother in Amsterdam, who is set to be deported to Armenia. 31 July 2024
Politics
Immigration service again decides to deport Amsterdam-born boy, 12, to Armenia
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Red Cross workers setting up stretchers in a sports hall that will be an emergency shelter for asylum seekers
Politics
Plan to scrap refugees’ priority for social housing will cost gov’t millions
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PVV parliamentarian Marjolein Faber during a Tweede Kamer debate on state of correctional facilities in the Netherlands, 21 May 2024
Politics
Council for the Judiciary urges PVV Minister not to submit her asylum bills
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PVV parliamentarian Marjolein Faber during a Tweede Kamer debate on state of correctional facilities in the Netherlands, 21 May 2024
Politics
Minister pledges to restore shelter budget cuts if asylum figures stabilize, increase
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PVV parliamentarian Marjolein Faber during a Tweede Kamer debate on state of correctional facilities in the Netherlands, 21 May 2024
Politics
Concerns about asylum budget cuts as immigration service's waiting lists grow
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Mohammed Khatib
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Barred Palestinian activist might still give speech at Nijmegen university protest
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Aerial view of greenhouses in Westland, Zuid-Holland in 2020
Business
Westland greenhouse grower fined for breaking labor law with Ukrainian migrant workers
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Reinette Klever during the Transfer from Foreign Affairs on July 2, 2024
Politics
PVV Ministers say they didn't jump the gun with Uganda plan
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A small group of people gathered at the Ter Apel asylum seeker reception center in November 2014
Politics
Dutch immigration service rejecting more and more asylum applications; Lawyers concerned