Anyone who wants to join the basis of family reunification rules in his or her partner in the Netherlands must integration test in their country of origin complete successfully. But what if someone because of circumstances, is unable to take the exam? Or can not bear the cost of the exam?
Karin de Vries and Laurens Meijer
When family reunification is one of the requirements that the partner who wants to come to the Netherlands has sufficient knowledge of the Dutch language and society. To this end integration examinations are conducted in the country of origin with the aim to initiate the integration of third-country national in the Netherlands for his arrival. Recently, the policy of taking the integration exam adapted abroad. This adjustment followed the judgment K. and A. of the EU Court of Justice, where the Court ruled that the Dutch policy of integration abroad in breach came with the Family Reunification Directive (see earlier blog ).