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.

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.

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

Via RefugeeWork, you can search for a job in your own language. On the RefugeeWork website, you will find job offers translated into 11 languages. In that way, you can read what kind of work is available in your own language and let employers know that you would like to work.

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.