Overview
- On Friday the new EU asylum rules came into force and the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) in Ter Apel started a tablet‑based, data‑driven intake to register new arrivals and speed case handling.
- A Eurodac biometric data outage on the first day prevented cross‑border fingerprint checks, forcing Ter Apel to collect biometric data locally and delaying confirmation of prior asylum claims in other EU states.
- The IND absorbed the screening role of DISA from 12 June, a reorganization that led to many DISA staff losing jobs while roughly 25 transferred into the new IND unit.
- Ter Apel remains overcapacity, prompting nightly emergency shelters in several Drenthe municipalities and reports of people sleeping outside as reception centres further down the chain stay full.
- The IND has shifted about 70% of capacity to new arrivals and 30% to the backlog and has begun applying the new two‑status rules to some family‑reunification cases, moves that aid groups say risk harm to vulnerable people and are likely to face legal challenges.