Refugee support
INLIA Foundation
Asylum-seeker and refugee support organization · Groningen
A Groningen foundation, set up in 1988 as the desk for the churches of the Charter of Groningen, giving legal and social advice to asylum seekers in difficulty.
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Telephone consultation hours you can use directly if you are in the Dutch asylum procedure, or if you are the lawyer, counsellor or volunteer helping someone through it: one set of hours for the case, another for medical care, education and housing.
About
INLIA is a Dutch foundation based in the city of Groningen, created in 1988 as a service desk for the local religious communities that had signed the Charter of Groningen, a covenant written in that city by churches from several European countries standing with asylum seekers and refugees in need. Its name stands for International Network of Local Initiatives with Asylum seekers. Its work has two sides. It advises the churches in that network and helps them build expertise, and it gives legal and social support directly to asylum seekers in difficulty, including referral to medical care and help in working out what future is possible, whether in the Netherlands, in the country a person came from, or in a third country they can safely reach. Advice is given by telephone during fixed consultation hours, one set for legal questions about an asylum case and another for social questions such as medical care, education and living conditions. INLIA has grown into five foundations, two of which carry out work for municipalities on a cost reimbursement basis. It accepts no government subsidy, saying that would make it dependent on the authority that carries out asylum policy, and lives on gifts from churches and individuals.
What they offer
- Telephone consultation hours for legal advice on asylum cases, for asylum seekers and the people advising them
- Telephone social consultation hours on medical care, education, housing and living conditions
- Advice and expertise building for the religious communities in its network
- Work carried out for municipalities on a cost reimbursement basis
Good to know
- It states plainly that it cannot arrange a visa for someone outside Europe who wants to travel to the Netherlands to claim asylum, and that it cannot provide humanitarian aid in other countries.
- Advice runs through fixed telephone consultation hours rather than a walk in desk.
- It advises and refers. It is not your lawyer of record and does not decide anything in your case.
- It takes no government funding, which is a deliberate choice about independence and also limits what it can carry.
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