The 2nd interview with the IND

Before the 2nd interview with the

Prior to the 2nd interview with the

To travel to the lawyer, you can ask COA for a day pass for public transport. With this day pass you can travel to your lawyer free of charge. You always need a valid ticket when travelling to or from your reception centre. 

A nurse from the independent organisation

Read below about what happens in the medical examination:

• During the interview, an IND employee asks questions about the reasons why you fled.

• The IND employee will continue to ask about your answers.

• You can be interviewed by an IND employee of your own gender if you wish. The IND employee will ask you this during your 1st interview.

• Be honest, and explain in detail and clearly about why you fled.

• Explain why you personally need protection. The IND is aware of the general situation in your country. Therefore, it is important that you explain why you are in danger.

• Sometimes it is difficult to talk about your flight. Explain this clearly to the IND if you find it difficult to talk about anything, or if there is something you do not remember.

• Do you have scars, physical or psychological complaints related to your flight? Tell the IND about this. The IND may offer you a medical examination.

• A

  VluchtelingenWerk Nederland (VWN)
  employee may be present at the interview if you wish. VWN supports you and, like the IND, makes a report of the interview. VWN may have written down different information than the IND. Sometimes this information is important. If your asylum application is rejected and you want to appeal, VWN's report can be used in the appeal.

• The IND will compile a report of the interview. The day after the interview, discuss the IND report with your lawyer. Tell your lawyer if any information is missing or incorrect in the IND report.

The IND employee asks the questions in Dutch. The interpreter translates them for you. The interpreter also translates your answers into Dutch. The interpreter is independent, does not work for the IND and has no influence on the decision about your asylum application. As interpreters are very busy, you might get an interpreter who speaks a different dialect. Tell me immediately if the interpreter and you cannot understand each other properly. It is important that no misunderstandings arise because the interpreter and you do not understand each other well.

The asylum procedure is mainly focused on adults because the IND mainly talks to adults. But children who have fled together with their parents sometimes also have the right to their own interview with the IND. Children do not have to have an interview with the IND if they do not want one. But the IND has to ask the child and the parents.

Children as young as 15 will be asked if they want their own interview with IND

Children are not automatically given an interview. The IND does ask children older than 15 during the 1st interview whether they had their own reasons for fleeing. And whether they also want an interview with the IND about the reasons for their flight.

Children between the ages of 12 and 15 are asked via their parents if they would like their own interview with IND

The IND must also ask the parents of children between the ages of 12 and 15 in the 1st interview if those children want an interview. If the IND does not ask the parents during the 1st interview, but the child does want to have an interview, this can still be passed on to the IND through the lawyer at the start of the asylum procedure. Often children between 12 and 15 do not have an actual interview with someone from the IND. Usually children are given the opportunity to put down on paper what they want to say.