Welcome to RefugeeHelp! You will find information here for all refugees in the Netherlands. RefugeeHelp replaces the ForRefugees website and is the online platform for information about your situation.

Do you have family members in the earthquake zone in Turkey and Syria? If so, you may want to apply for family reunification. There is (almost) no possibility to speed up that process. You can read more about it on this page.

If you have relatives in the earthquake area in Turkey or Syria and want to go there, this may have negative consequences for your asylum application in the Netherlands. Read below what you need to consider.

If family reunification is approved, family members no longer have to wait to come to the Netherlands. The Council of State ruled that on Wednesday.

The shelter of refugees must be more humane. The court has decided this. VluchtelingenWerk (VWN) filed a lawsuit against the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) and the Dutch State. VluchtelingenWerk did so because some 18,000 asylum seekers have been sheltered in poor circumstances.

December is a holiday month in the Netherlands. The holidays of Christmas and New Year's Eve are celebrated then. Most people in the Netherlands celebrate these holidays with family and friends. You can read in this article about how these holidays are celebrated. You can also read what you can notice about the holidays.

On December 31, the Dutch celebrate the turn of the year with fireworks. This is what we call New Year's Eve in the Netherlands. On the night of December 31 to January 1, there are fireworks shows throughout the Netherlands. In most municipalities you may also set off fireworks yourself between 18:00 and 02:00.