Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
Once it's granted you get priority over Dutch citizens when getting a house, and many other benefits that native Dutch have to pay for. As a legal immigrant getting here is easy, you will get the same costs as us though. Cut 2/3 out of every euro you make. Everything is taxed, even dying.

Edit, that's not to say that our immigration-policiies can be cruel, and really random. Friend of mine lived in front of asylum centre and they always were welcome when we had a party. A Pakistani guy who was told he could stay made us a big dinner, next day he was gone, never heard anything about him anymore. All I know is that he was directly going to the airport when he thought he was going to work.
Well, in 2012, you guys had 12 000 asylum requests, with more than 50% denied, and Dutch government is taking actions to significantly reduce that figure further.

Once they are granted asylum, they're legal immigrants, by the way. In 2012, Netherlands had 160 000 immigrants, so those immigrants you complain about make about 3-4% of the immigration. Between 2000-2011, about 20% of immigrants were Dutch, and good portion (over 10 000) were from Surinam and Dutch Antilles. Most immigration is from EU countries, and from non-EU countries, China's the biggest contributor.

On the whole, in the last 15 years, similar number of people that immigrated to Netherlands emigrated from Netherlands.

As someone who looked into moving to Netherlands from a non EU country, I can tell you that it's not at all easy. You need one of two things
1) a job offer
2) an education in field in which there's a lack of qualified workers in Netherlands.

You've been fed a fairy tale by xenophobes my friend, and you believed.