Lockdown in the Netherlands - The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on asylum seekers, refugees and unauthorized migrants in Amsterdam.

Asylum seekers’ lives are on hold during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Arriving asylum seekers were temporarily unable to claim asylum and pending asylum procedures are – except for a pilot with remote video hearing – suspended. This raises the question what the current uncertainty means for those asylum seekers who have already been waiting very long for an outcome of their asylum claims.