Around a thousand people submitted a request for asylum in the Netherlands last week. Rounded off, that is the same number as the week before. The inflow is, therefore, again higher than in recent months. Around this time last year, the number of applications started to rise around this time last year too, which then continued until April.
The weekly numbers provided by the Ministry of Asylum and Migration are rounded up by the hundred. Therefore, it is not known exactly how many people requested asylum. In addition, the number does not just consist of new requests but also of relatives…