Former asylum seekers should have easier route to Dutch nationality
Refugees who have gained the right to stay in the Netherlands should face fewer bureaucratic hurdles if they want a Dutch passport, the national ombudsman and children’s ombudsman have said. Around 27,000 people have been given leave to stay in the country since an amnesty was introduced for long-term asylum seekers, many of whom arrived in the country as children, but only around 30 per cent of them have obtained Dutch nationality. ‘Thousands of people, including many young adults, who have built up a life in the Netherlands, studied here and speak and write Dutch, have become Dutch but do not have Dutch passports,’ ombudsman Reinier van Zutphen wrote in a report. ‘Ten years after the amnesty, it should be easier for them to obtain Dutch nationality.’ In a separate report, also published on Tuesday, the children’s ombudsman called for underage asylum seekers to be assessed separately from their parents.
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