Immigration and Naturalisation Service (Netherlands)

The IND processes all applications for asylum, family reunification, visas, naturalisation, and other residence permits.

From 1999 to 2003, future prime minister of the Netherlands Dick Schoof was chief director of the IND.

[1][2] The Netherlands was experiencing a relatively high influx of asylum seekers as a result of the Kosovo War, and the organization had a significant backlog of requests.

Schoof was responsible for implementing reforms to the Aliens Act by State Secretary for Justice Job Cohen in 2001 that simplified the asylum procedure, and he worked to deport applicants that did not qualify.

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