Dutch immigration tests add cost and conduct requirements that screen out poor applicants

Evidence

The immigration minister Rita Verdonk, nicknamed “Iron Rita” for her policy inclinations, has imposed onerous requirements on non-Western individuals applying to immigrate to the Netherlands. The requirements include passing interviews and tests over a period of fi vc years and an oath of allegiance to the Dutch State. Applicants must watch a video of topless women and gay men. The cost of the process to the applicant is approximately 3000 US dollars, a considerable sum for immigrants from developing countries43 A more restrictive policy on immigration, including more stringent requirements for residency · and nationality, goes hand in hand with the security response noted above. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 194

Categorization

• SHARE: The detail about the obligatory topless-and-gay-men video plus a $3,000 fee is niche enough that only the one person who tracks migration-policy absurdities would care.
• ADDENDUM: Directly extends the ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ thesis: Dutch civic-integration films use staged nudity as an ideological purity test, making dress and sexual display a citizenship hurdle rather than a moral one.
• CANDY: A country admits you only after you and it both watch a topless-women video and pay three grand.