Asylum Claims up 33% but Overall Immigration Falls Sharply - DutchNews.nl
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In the first three months of this year, nearly 6,000 people applied for asylum in the Netherlands for the first time, reports Statistics Netherlands (CBS). That is a third more than in the same period a year earlier, but less than in the last quarter of last year.
Asylum: The first quarter of 2026 saw 33 percent more first asylum applications than the same period last year, according to figures from Statistics Netherlands (CBS). This is due to…
The number of asylum applications in the Netherlands clearly increased in early 2026. In the first quarter, nearly 6,000 people applied for asylum for the first time. That is an increase of 33 percent compared to the same period a year earlier. This is evident from new figures from Statistics Netherlands (CBS), based on data from the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND).
The largest group of asylum seekers, 1,100 people, comes from the Palestinian territories in the first three months of 2026.
Thank you, D66, VVD, and CDA. You pulled it off. These parties promised a grip on migration, promised capable ministers and not a Marjolein Fabers in a capable cabinet; essentially, they advocated a kind of new politics, without dirty political games and other nonsense, but *with* solutions for the Netherlands. And today, we can see a bit of a result from all those fine promises in the CBS figures: "In the first quarter of 2026, nearly 6,000 peo…
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