Immigration leak

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Immigration leak

NRC.Next uncovers a legal loophole concerning the immigration of brides from abroad.

Many wives from countries outside the European Union are bypassing Dutch legislation by spending three months living with their spouses in Germany or Belgium.

In what has become known as the German or Belgium route, the groom moves to a town just over the border and has the bride join him. Legislation in other European countries on import brides is less strict.

The "immigration leak" means couples avoid paying more than EUR 1,000 on a resident's permit and citizenship's exam.

Meanwhile the paper reports courts in Amsterdam and Roermond have ruled that Dutch Law does not allow the government to demand immigrants pass a citizenship exam abroad and that people of non-EU origin have to earn at least 120 percent of the minimum wage to bring an import bride or groom into the country.

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