Request for documents or information from your IND file

Your letter should include the following information:

• When asking for documents: a description of the documents you would like to receive. 
• When asking for personal data (GDPR request): a description of the personal data you would like to receive, change or delete. Or a description of the personal data you would like to object against.
• Your name, address, telephone number, email address, date of birth and signature.
• A copy of the front and back of your valid identity card or Dutch residence permit. Or a copy of the pages with the identity information of your valid passport. You may make the passport photo and your citizen service number (in Dutch: Burgerservicenummer or BSN) invisible. Find out on the Government of the Netherlands website how you can make a copy of your proof of identity safely (only available in Dutch). 
•  You can also have someone else make the request for you. However, you must then authorise this person. A solicitor does not need authorisation. Except if this solicitor is not involved in your ongoing procedure at the IND. Neither do the parents or legal representatives of children younger than 18 need authorisation. Send a copy of the passport of the authorised person and a signed 
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• If applicable: a copy of the certificate of death of the person whom the documents or data belong to.

Would you like to have documents from an asylum procedure? Then send a letter to this postal address. 
Immigration and Naturalisation Service
Postbus 18
9560 AA Ter Apel

Would you like to have documents from other procedures? Then send a letter to this postal address.
Immigration and Naturalisation Service
Postbus 16
9560 AA Ter Apel

Immigration and Naturalisation Service
Attn Privacy Officer
Postbus 17
9560 AA Ter Apel