– ANP – Too few places, too few staff, the reception of asylum seekers squeaks and creaks. According to the NRC, the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) is even about to collapse due to the high pressure. It’s a crisis, says board member Joeri Kapteijns to news hour, and not enough … Read more
If it is up to the cabinet, the Netherlands will have a second application center for asylum seekers, in addition to the one in Ter Apel in Groningen. The Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) has bought a piece of land for this purpose in Bant, which is located in the Noordoostpolder … Read more
– RTV Utrecht – In cooperation with RTV Utrecht —- NOS News•yesterday, 21:42 — Tonight, two hundred asylum seekers from Ter Apel will be received in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. The temporary emergency shelter is intended to relieve the overcrowded application center. Asylum seekers also go to Zuidbroek and Stadskanaal. – “The situation in Ter … Read more
The Netherlands Council for Refugees is concerned about the rapidly increasing backlog at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND). Some 6000 asylum seekers are now waiting longer than the legal term of six months for a decision on their residence. That is six times more than in January. The Council for Refugees warns of an … Read more
About 75 people are on chairs in the waiting room of the registration center of the Central Organ Asylum Seekers (COA) in Ter Apel on Thursday evening, because there are not enough beds available for them. A spokesperson for the COA reports this to NU.nl on site. Asylum seekers are still arriving at the application … Read more
In the application center for asylum seekers in Ter Apel, people have to sleep on a chair again in the night from Sunday to Monday. There is too little capacity due to the crowds. A spokesperson for the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) could not say exactly how many people were … Read more
Stadskanaal will offer shelter to asylum seekers who cannot get a bed in the application center in Ter Apel because of the crowds there. The Groningen municipality has offered the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) to use a transfer location for Ukrainians. That location with a hundred beds is empty. Stadskanaal, … Read more
The Ter Apel application center is once again overcrowded. At least 100 people have to spend the night from Tuesday to Wednesday in a chair in the recreation room or the waiting area of the application center. This is reported by a spokesperson for the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA). There … Read more
There is no bed available for more than 120 asylum seekers in the reception center in Ter Apel on Monday evening. They have to spend the night in the waiting room of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, where they have to sleep on a chair. A spokesperson for the Central Agency for the Reception of … Read more
A group of about a hundred asylum seekers will stay two nights longer in the village of Tweede Exloërmond in Drenthe. They had been transferred from the overcrowded application center in Ter Apel and were to leave the emergency shelter on Saturday, but there is no new place for them yet. According to the municipality … Read more