Meedoen

Hoe zorgen we ervoor dat iedereen kan meedoen in Brussel?

Once you arrive as an asylum seeker in Belgium, you receive the annexe 26 as a first “identification” document. To get the orange card, you need to wait until the police comes and visits you in the house and sends to the Local Goverment (gemeente). In some cases that can take a long time. For example I was the first two months in Brussels 1000, and they never came. Then I moved to Schaarbeek Brussels 1030, and they came after a few weeks. During almost 3 months I would have love to start learning Dutch, but without the orange card none Dutch Language Center will subscribe us. As for the integration course it happens the same, once I started, only with the orange card, I also started my diploma recognition, but because all that time had passed since I arrived and the date I got the Orange card, during the recognition process my annexe 26 was too old (more than three months) to have the asylum seeker treatment.