Integration for family migrants

 On January 1, 2022, the new Civic Integration Act took effect. The municipality will help you get integrated as soon as possible. See how the municipality can help you here.

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Conversation

• Your integration consultant will invite you for an interview. This is an employee of the Municipality of Tytsjerksteradiel.
• This employee will advise you on your integration period
• During this interview, your integration counselor will tell you what steps are required for your integration program (what steps you will take until you are integrated)

Learnability test

• Integration requires you to take a "learnability test.
• With the result of the test and through the conversation with you, the integration counselor will get information about how quickly you could learn the Dutch language.
• With that information, the counselor can advise you on what is needed for your integration.
• Your integration counselor can also give you information about available schools.
• Then you can choose a language school for your integration.

Integration and Participation Plan

• After about 10 weeks comes the final interview.
• Together with you, the counselor makes a personal Integration and Participation Plan (PIP for short). The PIP contains the agreements about your integration and guidance by the municipality.
• You are now ready to start civics.
• Because of the Integration Act, you are required to cooperate in everything for the preparation of the PIP.
• During your civic integration period, the municipality will invite you several times for an interview to see how your civic integration is going. These interviews are also mandatory.

Did you receive your residence permit after January 1, 2013? And are you required to integrate? If so, you will receive a letter from the Education Executive Agency (DUO). This letter states how much time you have to pass the integration exam: 3 years from the date you received your residence permit. This is your 'integration period'.

• You are responsible for your own integration.
• You need to find an integration course yourself. Read more information about this at 'civic integration course'.
• You must pass the integration exam within the 3-year integration period. If you do not cooperate, you may receive a fine from DUO. Failure to cooperate may have consequences for your residence permit. You can find more information at Inburgeren.nl.

DUO loan almost used up?

Have you almost used up your DUO loan? Or should you have passed your integration exam within a year and you have already used €7,500.00 of your loan? If so, you will receive a letter from DUO.

What should you do then?

• We ask that you contact the Municipality of Tytsjerksteradiel directly at telephone number 14 0511 and ask for the Inburgering team.
• We will discuss with you how you can get the lessons you still need as soon as possible within the integration deadline.
• We also look at how you can pass KNM, ONA and your exams as quickly as possible. We call this help with ELIP (Einde Lening Inburgeringsplicht).

Would you like support in this journey?

Your civic integration consultant can and will support you with this. To do so, call telephone number 14 0511 or send an email to the civic integration team.

If you received your residence permit between January 1, 2013 and January 1, 2022, but turned 18 after January 1, 2022, and you still need to integrate:

• you may be covered by the Integration Act 2021
• You will receive a letter from DUO telling you that you must Inburgeren via the municipality

Then contact the Municipality of Tytsjerksteradiel, with Team Inburgering at telephone number 140511.

Did you receive your residence permit before 2013 but have not yet passed your integration exam?

Then contact the Municipality of Tytsjerksteradiel via telephone number 14 0511 or via email to Team inburgering. 

• Did you receive a residence permit after January 1, 2022? Then your contact person from the Municipality of Tytsjerksteradiel will work with you to find a suitable language provider (if you turned 18 on or after 1-1-2022, you may also fall under the new Integration Act).
• Did you receive a residence permit before January 1, 2022? Then you are responsible for your own integration. Your contact person at the municipality of Tytsjerksteradiel will be happy to help you find a suitable language provider.

You must pass the integration exam within your integration period. Learn more at inburgeren.nl.

You are a citizen if you have taken exams in the following sections:

• Participation Statement (PVT).
• Reading
• Listen
• Writing
• Speaking
• Knowledge of Dutch Society (KNM).
• Employment & Participation Module (MAP) for citizenship candidates after Jan. 1, 2022
• Orientation to the Dutch Labor Market (ONA) for citizenship candidates before 2022

If you have passed the civic integration exam, you will receive a diploma from DUO. However, this does not apply to the Z-route (certificate). Have you already started civic integration? You can find more information on Mijnduo.nl and Mijninburgering.nl. Here you can also practice exams.

Are you obliged to integrate before January 1, 2022? If so, you can borrow money from DUO for your civic integration course. On the website Inburgeren.nl you can read how that works.

The participation statement program is an important and mandatory part of the integration process. You are introduced to the core values of Dutch society. At the end of the PVT, you sign the participation declaration. This is organized by VluchtelingenWerk Nederland.

Starting with the PVT

You will receive an invitation to the workshop from your contact person at your municipality.

• the invitation will state where the workshop will be held
• the workshop can also be held in a municipality other than your own
• children cannot attend the workshop
• provide childcare for your child(ren) when necessary

At the end of the workshops, you will sign the participation statement and have completed this section. Would you like more information? Then please send an email to the team Inburgering.

Signing PVT

The participation declaration is a statement that newcomers who are obliged to integrate must sign. It states that you have taken note of the Dutch core values:

• freedom
• equality
• solidarity and
• participation
• and that you will be committed to this

After you attend the workshops, you will sign the participation statement.

Cost of the PVT

There is no cost to you for the PVT.

Do you live in the municipality of Tytsjerksteradiel and want to obtain the Dutch nationality. Then you can submit a naturalization request to the municipality. To naturalize, you must have passed your integration exam.

You can find more information on the page Becoming a Dutch citizen by naturalization. Do you meet the conditions? Then make an appointment for a naturalization request. Please call 14 0511 for this.