(Dutch News) Immigration minister Marjolein Faber has finalised three pieces of legislation that will be put to the vote in Friday’s cabinet meeting, broadcaster NOS has reported.
Ministers have already given their informal blessing to the plans, sources in The Hague told NOS.
The three measures put Faber’s earlier-announced proposals to bring in “the strictest asylum regime ever” into law. They include scrapping the right to a permanent residency permit, cutting refugee permits from five to three years, and introducing a two-tier system for assessing refugee claims.
This means refugees fleeing persecution on individual grounds, such as their sexuality or political activity, would be entitled to more protection than those who claimed asylum because of a war or political upheaval in their country.
