CELIA – Common European Language Indication and Analysis Please find our English flyer on Celia .   For more information: please contact us at: CELIA@ind.nl   Language analyses are used in the asylum procedure to investigate the origin claimed by asylum …

IND Social Advisory Council The Social Advisory Council (in Dutch: Maatschappelijke adviesraad or MAR) advises the IND about the immigration policy. This advise helps us to remain critical of our work. And it allows us to improve ourselves where necessary …

Economy Each year, the IND processes around 43,000 applications for residency from students and employees. This makes up a large proportion of our work. We make sure that these applications are processed smoothly and quickly. Working or studying in the …

Asylum Worldwide, around 100 million people are displaced. A small proportion of these people come to the Netherlands and apply to us for asylum. We assess whether these asylum seekers can receive protection. Protection for people who are entitled to it …

Annual Reports We publish our annual and tertiary figures every year. Interesting, if you are curious about our results and progress of the past year and those of previous years.  IND Annual Report 2024 published In the Annual Report among other things …

Our organisation At the IND, we receive between 100,000 and 150,000 applications for residency every year. In addition, we process applications for naturalisation from people who have been living here so long that they feel Dutch and would like to apply …

EU subsidies at the IND: this is what we do with them On this page you will find a summary of several important projects at the IND. These projects are possible thanks to subsidies Border Management and Visa Instrument (BMVI), the Asylum, Migration and …

Sustainability and the IND We simply cannot ignore climate change. The IND, too, wishes to (and must) contribute to the targets set by the Central Government in the National Climate Agreement (in Dutch: Nationaal Klimaatakkoord ). Moreover, we have to set …

File increase asylum applications For many months, the Netherlands has been dealing with an increasing number of asylum applications from refugees around the world. The reasons for this include delayed migration starting again now that corona measures and …

The Status of Performannce The Status of Performannce report outlines the current challenges faced by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) in executing its migration policy effectively.   State of Performance June 2024 State of Performance …