Of the approximately 2,000 Afghans evacuated by the Netherlands in August, more than a quarter have now received a provisional residence permit. This means that they can stay in the Netherlands for at least the next five years, a spokesperson for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) told Monday. NRC. It’s about 560 evacuees, who have received a positive asylum decision in recent weeks.
The approximately two thousand Afghans who were evacuated around the takeover by the Taliban in August were on the Dutch evacuation list because they worked for the Dutch government or for Dutch organizations. Many of them were deployed for the Dutch military mission in Afghanistan, for example as interpreters, or at the embassy. The asylum procedure for these people has been shortened and the IND has deployed teams at various reception locations to assess the applications on site. The Immigration Service has now fully completed its screening of this group of evacuees, which examines whether they pose a threat to public order and security.
The outgoing cabinet recently decided that some 2,100 Afghans will be allowed to come to the Netherlands in due course. 33 of them were evacuated on Monday. According to the ANP news agency, it was the first time since the departure of the American armed forces from Afghanistan that Afghans who do not have a Dutch passport and who are also not related to a Dutch person have been successfully evacuated.
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