‘Sham parents’ – How Middle Easterners and Africans are exploiting a legal loophole to obtain Dutch residency permits

Multiple African and Middle Eastern women are using complete strangers with Dutch citizenship to fraudulently obtain residency permit, according to the Dutch Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND).ContentsA single EU court ruling opened the floodgatesAbuse is rampantChildren left stranded The IND warns it is essentially powerless to stop this widespread fraud, including egregious cases, such as … Continue reading ‘Sham parents’ – How Middle Easterners and Africans are exploiting a legal loophole to obtain Dutch residency permits