Courts slam immigration service for failing to turn up to one in 10 hearings

Judges have criticised the immigration service IND for failing to turn up to around one in 10 asylum case hearings, causing delays and higher legal costs. Trouw newspaper reported that the IND decided in advance which cases it would not attend, blaming staff shortages and a high workload for its inability to cover all hearings. Last month the district court in Den Bosch issued a stinging rebuke to IND officials who sent a five-line letter explaining why they would not...