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Here is how to appeal if your right to temporary protection is ending

Last updated: 11/15/2023, 8:37 PM
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If you have received a letter from the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) that your temporary protection is going to stop, you can appeal against this. You can get help from a lawyer. The lawyer is independent and is there to help you.

Appealing the termination of temporary protection

You have received a letter from the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) that your temporary protection in the Netherlands is ending. Together with a lawyer, you can go to court to litigate against this decision. You can do so within 4 weeks after you receive the letter from the IND.

The government has paused the IND's decision to stop your temporary protection. For the time being, you therefore remain entitled to:

  • Work

  • Stay in the reception centre for refugees from Ukraine

  • Care 

A lawyer can support you

VluchtelingenWerk Nederland (VWN) can help you find a lawyer who can support you with filing an objection. Together with that lawyer, you explain in a letter to the IND why you believe that the temporary protection should not be terminated in your case. This may be because you disagree with the decision of the IND. It is also possible that you do fall under the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD), because you:

  • Have a permanent Ukrainian residence permit.

  • Have a family member who is covered by the TPD.

  • Have a Ukrainian residence permit that gives you (inter)national protection.

An investigation into the interim termination of temporary protection is underway

A number of migration experts have serious doubts about whether the interim termination of temporary protection is allowed under the European Directive. Therefore, the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security has started a process to examine this decision in court. The

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Council of State (RvS)
will determine whether the Dutch government is allowed to do this. It is likely that the RvS will rule on this in December 2023.

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