Friday, December 23, 2005

Integration Test for Would-be Dutch Migrants / Islam Online, 22 Dec 2005

http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2005-12/22/article03.shtml
"Some 14,000 applicants, mainly from Turkey, Morocco and Surinam, are expected to sit the test each year. The justice ministry said that citizens from the European Union, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the United States will be exempted from the test.
'Victims of women trafficking or a witness to the said offence' will also be exempted, it added.
The Netherlands already has one of the strictest immigration policies in the European Union. It already makes integration classes mandatory for newcomers as laws have been changed to oblige all new immigrants and accepted asylum seekers to take classes in Dutch language and culture."