When is the application interview?

After you have applied for asylum, you will receive an invitation for an application interview. During the application interview, an IND employee will ask you questions about your origins and journey to the Netherlands. It may take several months before you receive an invitation for this. This waiting time only applies in the following situation:

• You have been to the police (AVIM) or Royal Netherlands Marechaussee for identification and registration. You signed your asylum application there.
• You do not come from a safe country of origin. 
• You apply for asylum for the first time in the Netherlands. You did not provide fingerprints in a different EU/EEA country or Switzerland. You also did not travel to the Netherlands with a visa from one of these countries. 
• You are over 18 years old. Or you are a minor, but you are in the Netherlands with a parent or caregiver. 

When you will have the application interview depends on the date of your asylum application. The table below shows your waiting time. In the first column you look for the month of  your asylum application. The second column shows the period in which you can expect the application interview.

Example

You applied for asylum in the month of January 2024. That means you will have your application interview between April and May 2024. Has the last month of waiting time passed and have you not yet had an application interview? Then ask an employee of the Netherlands Council for Refugees (VWN) whether they can contact the IND. Following this example, you can ask VWN for help by May 2024.