Leveling up: What changes in the inburgering process from 2022?

With an increase in the language requirements for the integration exams imminent, smart candidates are signing up for a new self-access course with InburgeringOnline.nl to prepare for their exams in advance of the change. ‘People who become ingeburgeringsplichtig before January 1st still deal with the requirement of the current law.’ For this group, the level of the exam will remain at A2 level even after January 2022. Get ahead To avoid the more demanding exams on the horizon, newcomers who started their integration process before 1 Jan 2022 are getting the integration process done as quickly as possible while the language requirement is lower, says Bart Nawijn, founder of self-study course, InburgeringOnline.nl, which uses video tutorials in English and practice papers to explain the various tasks students have to complete and the marking criteria, while teaching them the Dutch they need. ‘The course outline came from my experience with normal lessons,’ explains Nawijn, a teacher of Dutch as a foreign language, who noticed his students were eager to find out more about the exams themselves but struggling with the information that was out there. ‘I think that it can be done in a much more accessible and e-friendly way.’ Flexible Compared to physical lessons, InburgeringOnline.nl – which offers a choice of a beginners or post-A1 route – makes it easy to fit the language training around students’ work and personal commitments.