Now that the Dutch Senate has rejected the Asylum Emergency Measures Act and adopted the dual-status system, all eyes are on the European Migration Pact. Migration experts fear bottlenecks. “By opting for detention, you are taking a real risk of large-scale human rights violations.”
The Migration Pact is “one of the most far-reaching changes to both Dutch legislation and its implementation”, officials from the Ministry of Asylum and Migration told the Senate on 21 April. Following the Senate’s rejection of the Emergency Asylum Measures Act, all attention is now focused on the Migration Pact. Seven of the ten measures from that emergency asylum act can still be introduced via the pact’s implementation act. These include the abolition of the indefinite residence permit and stricter conditions for family reunification.
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