Approximately 2000 so-called follow-up migrants with a residence permit, whose family member is already housed in their municipality, are staying in asylum seeker centers across the country. Follow-up migrants will be referred to the municipality where their family member lives. Contact will, of course, take place with the municipality regarding this. They will move in with their family member as much as possible. Currently, the follow-up migrants are still waiting in an asylum reception center.
Minister Keijzer: We are reaching the limits of what we can do, and therefore we are starting this immediately. After all, we promised to keep Ter Apel below 2000.
Small families are first referred to the sponsor. This is how the COA is working on a solution to relieve the asylum chain. At the same time, the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers is no longer accepting new follow-up migrants with a residence permit, whose sponsor is already housed in the municipality. Those people are immediately reunited with their family. The situation in the reception and the high number of follow-up migrants show that, in addition to the above measures, there is an urgent need to gain control over migration in the short term. The asylum emergency measures law and the Law on the Introduction of a Dual Status System limit the influx of follow-up migrants.
