Rejected asylum seekers to be given identity cards
Rejected asylum-seekers without identity papers will receive these from the government if they make a fresh asylum application. This document will give their name, nationality and legal residence status, Justice State Secretary Nebahat Albayrak has announced.
Asylum-seekers who are rejected can make a fresh application for a residence permit on different grounds, sometimes as much as five or six times. Thus, they can first be rejected as political refugee and thereafter make another attempt on, for example, medical grounds.
Albayrak is now giving these rejected asylum-seekers without a passport a so-called W2 document showing their identity, nationality and legal residence status. Aliens who have never applied for asylum can also “in exceptional circumstances” receive a W2 document, the state secretary wrote t the Lowe House.
Albayrak is partly following a recommendation by the National Ombudsman, Alex Brenninkmeijer, with the measure. The Ombudsman earlier urged giving such a document to all aliens who are residing in the Netherlands without papers and awaiting the decision on their application, so that they can avail of certain facilities such as free healthcare.
Source: NIS News, 15 November 2007
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