A bus carrying asylum seekers arrives at the emergency shelter in the IJsselhallen in Zwolle. Photo: ANP / Remko de Waal
The first asylum seekers arrived tonight at emergency shelters in the IJsselhallen in Zwolle. The place is designed to accommodate the large influx of asylum seekers in recent weeks. The regular asylum centers have insufficient capacity.
The Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) announced earlier this month announced the IJsselhallen in Zwolle and Zeelandhallen Goes to set up as shelter places for asylum seekers. The emergency location in Goes will start next week. A spokesman for the COA can not say how many people are currently housed in Zwolle. The IJsselhallen can accommodate four hundred asylum seekers.
A thousand new applications per week
Between March and May this year increased the number of first asylum applications from 800 to 2,300 per month. The last few weeks are weekly report about a thousand new asylum seekers in the application centers of the COA. The bulk of the increase is due to people from Eritrea and Syria.
In addition to the large influx of asylum seekers are asylum seekers under pressure because in municipalities are not enough homes to refugees who have had to house a residence permit.
Single adults
The intention is to reach only single adults in the emergency shelter sites, reports the spokesman of the COA:
” Families with children, we are not suitable for this kind of find locations. “
The emergency shelter is also intended for people who have just arrived and have not yet entered the asylum procedure. Asylum seekers would enter the regular application process within two to three weeks and then move on to a regular asylum center.
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