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Netherlands: Fake marriages

01 March 1992

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The Dutch Ministry of Justice is preparing a bill which will penalize getting married for obtaining a residence permit. Dutch people who marry an "alien" only to help him or her to a residence permit will be punishable by one year imprisonment for first offenders, 3 years for repeated offences.

The civil servant at the Registry Office will have to ask an alien for their permit. If this cannot be produced, the "alien" will have to go to the police first. The Aliens Department of the Ministry of Justice last year opened a "Bureau of Special Affairs", which investigates aliens starting a family and reunions.

The Ministry is also working on a Central Aliens Registration, a national computer database in which all aliens are to registered. This database is to be connected to the Municipal Basis Administration (the central Public Register network), which will allow all official services to check within seconds if they are dealing with a legal or illegal alien.

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