Christian MP calls for end to slow, callous asylum procedures

ChristenUnie parliamentarian Joel Voordewind is calling for an end to the slow asylum procedure, that is leading to frustration, protests and even suicide in the emergency asylum shelters, AD reports. The backlog lies particularly in the control phase, where asylum seekers papers and documents are checked for forgery and the IND determines that the asylums seeker comes from where he says he does. The backlog resulted in ever increasing-waiting times before an asylum seeker's asylum procedure even begins, leading to frustration, anxiety and uncertainty among the asylum seekers waiting in emergency shelters. Over the weekend 30-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker Hussein Ali Abdel Amer committed suicide in the Alphen aan den Rijn shelter.