What’s it like to immigrate to the NL? American opens up.
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- What rights do I have in the Netherlands?
Is it easy to find a job as an immigrant?
What is the process to gain citizenship?
What resources are available to you?
Who can you trust?
Can you vote?
Is the NL a democracy? Have they achieved equality?
What’s their stance on abortion? Freedom of speech? Freedom of religion? Gay rights?
All this and more, folks 👏🏼 here is a quick recap from my perspective- an American who began her immigration journey 2 years ago.
My opinion: it’s awesome.
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Welcome🎉
Freedom of religion means also Freedom from religion.
Great to hear you talk so enthusiastic about the Netherlands and the Dutch. I wish you good luck here!
Article 1 of the Dutch constitution:
All persons in the Netherlands are treated equally in equal cases. Discrimination on grounds of religion, belief, political opinion, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation or on any other basis is not permitted.
and yet a lot of dutch people discriminate non dutch people ( morrocans turks east europeans americans etc ), why dont they listen to their constitution ?
@nicossbots that's a bit of a shortcut. Yes, discrimination is real, but is predominantly against people that generation after generation refuse to integrate.
@@nicossbots There is a difference between what individuals do and what the law says. The constitution is the law of the land, so anyone who violates Article 1 is breaking the law and can be prosecuted by the justice system. But in order to get prosecuted you have to get caught by the police in the act of committing the offense. So people will do what they want to do, but if caught they will be prosecuted since they are breaking the law.
not rooms but chambers. And the members of both chambers are elected, not appointed (but the first chamber is elected not directly by the people but by (elected) provincial representatives.)
Probably confused with Raad van State. Those are appointed and usually experts.
Welcome to Europe. Good luck.
western europe*
@@nicossbotsThank you for the geography lesson. I checked Google Maps and you are right, correct, veracious, precise, accurate, true, factual, pedantic, exact, veritable. If you were a watch you would be Swiss.
@@teyemanon1970 exactly! because eastern europe is exactly like the netherlands and this represents all of europe !
Somehow that sound sarcastisch to me😂
@@jeroenklink9855 No. She is coming to Europe. We do have a better quality of life here.
As for working your way through the immigration process and assimilating use the buddy system. Avoid the stress,
For those who prefer to be freelancer, there are several excellent payroll companies. For a small fee they save you all the hassle of administration.
Go Dutch and make sure you have proper work/life-balance. Evaluate if the last earned Euro was really worth the time and effort. Cutting the work week short by one hour and having a cool glass on a terrace in the sun is priceless.
Welcome. Great to have you here. Wishing you and your partner the very best.
Great to have you! Welcome!
In the Netherlands your rights can never infringe on the rights of somebody else. You may be a super religious person, but you can't harass people to be just as religious. When your religion dictates that you can't eat out on a Saturday, that doesn't mean that all restaurants have to close on that night because it's your belief. A lot of religious people are quite angry about that.
The powers that the Monarch has have been curtailed since the establishment of the Kingdom in 1813. This came about because the first Monarch of The Netherlands (William I) abused his powers in such a way that Belgium split of and formed its own country in 1830. So in 1848 the constitution was changed and a lot of the powers of the Monarch were stripped away and passed over to the elected representatives in the parliament. After that, every so often the remaining powers of the Monarch were steadily reduced through constitutional reform.
So while the Monarch is technically the head of state, his representatives in the Prime Minister and the other Ministers are the actual people running the country. And they are responsible to the representatives in the Second Chamber of Parliament, who have the power to write new laws and introduce them for voting on. If the law passes the votes in the Second chamber, it will pass to the First Chamber who can either pass the law up for signature by the King (which he is obliged to do) or fail the law, in which case the Second chamber needs to rewrite it and try again.
The 150 members of the Second chamber are elected directly by the voters, while the 75 members of the First chamber are elected by the Provincial parliament (who's members are directly elected by the voters).
When I watch the horror show that is the USA, I just cannot fathom why it's called a "developed" country. The USA is:
* one of only three countries that don't use metric (the other two are Myanmar and Libya)
* the only country to have pulled out of the Paris accord
* the country that spends more on their military than the next 6 countries _combined_
* the only developed country in the world that does not have mandatory maternity leave
* the developed country with the highest rate of obesity
* most covid deaths of any country
* number 45 in the World Press Freedom Index
* 15th in the Quality of Life index
* the country with the highest level of debt - more than _double_ the second highest country (Japan)
* 25% of all incarcerated prisoners live in the USA
* school exams are run by for-profit organisations
* the only developed country in the world still exclusively using archaic imperial measurements
And, of course, they had President Plump, and will probably have him again. What a nightmare.
Last Week Tonight really highlights how many issues the USA is. It's a backward country TBH.
Great list, and we all know it's way longer, as you haven't yet mentioned guns, money in politics, election between two bad choices and no real alternatives, flat earth believers, women rights taken away, suppression of minorities, etc, etc.
But the U.S. is the only country in the world that knows how to travel in time. They have been going back in time for several years, culminating on June 24, 2022 with the overturning of Roe vs Wade. Now it's only a matter of time before they reintroduce slavery, lynching, and other practices that were the norm in the good old Wild West.
It is not on personal rights but on the judicial system. The judicial system is completely independent from our political system. Judges are not appointed by politicians or the government but by their peers and on their merits. It is called trias politicas. Separation of powers, church state end judicial.
I think I understand your man, you don't have to overthink medical insurance.
It is easy if you're healthy; get the cheapest and you're done.
Maybe a bit extra for the dentist insurance.
Welcome to the Netherlands, Alison.
In general it's okay to live here. There is good and bad everywhere.
The average person doesn't have to fear gun violence, for example. So enjoy your stay. The biggest challenge is the weather. Always be prepared for anything from the sky 👍
This is technically how it's supposed to work in the US as well. But it's never gotten quite as "perfect" as in the NL, and recently fascism is taking over and more and more and our rights are unfortunately peeled back one after another. Sad state of affairs, really. Just like in NL, in the US your rights end where they infringe upon the rights of others. Until you have party operatives planted in the highest court who don't really give a ... about our constitution.
@@tomb5372 yeah it’s really tragic to see rights being actually taken away, and that all-important line of “my rights can’t infringe on yours” being forgotten or just ignored. We are not free in America. Not by any means 😰😥
The Netherlands started of as a republic and became a monarchy later. Nowadays the King and/or Queen are just ceremonial without any political and/or judicial power. An American who calls herself an immigrant, which is what you are, rather than the expat nonsense deserves my respect 👏🏻, you're welcome. The human and political rights are protected even from the government by the European Convention of Human Rights enforced by the European Court of Human Rights en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_Rights
Euthanasia is a lot more limited and/or complicated, it's certainly not a matter of an appointment with your gp. It is only a possibility in the very last stage of someone life to prevent unnecessary suffering and even than multiple specialist must have stated so in writing not only about the physical but also mental status of the patient and no gp can be forced to assist.
If you're sixty or 70 you're expected to use email. Some 80-year olds might struggle. I'm 67 and I built my own first computer in 1977. Spent years programming.
Happy birthday 💐🌺🌼🌸🌻🎆💖
wait, you work as ZZP and don't have a tax advisor? Please please get a belastingadviseur
@@tarickw right now I just get help from volunteers at the wijkcentrum but this past year I didn’t make enough money as a zzp’er to even be required to pay taxes 🤣 🤷♀️
I lived in NL for 2 years. It wasn't a good fit for me. The overbearing and incessant bureaucracy and the fact that every single decision ever had to be made by committee just made life far more difficult than it needs to be.
A good example is that for my immigration the govt demanded I prove that I wasn't married. Just let the absolute stupidity of such a demand sink in for a moment and you'll come to understand the frustration with the utter jobsworths that seem to make up the majority of the NL workforce.
And you know why they asked it? (If you are married or not).
@@jabo7763 Yes, I do understand why they asked if I was married, but you do understand the stupidity of demanding proof of something that has not occurred, right?
@@XXXX-yc6wv i know it looks stupid but there has been fraud with that and that was not a small amount. Dutch society had to pay those millions so in my eyes it is justified to ask.
@@jabo7763 I completely agree that it is justified to ASK if an applicant is or is not married, but not to demand proof of a negative answer to that question.
I've lived in several countries, all of which experience the same immigration fraud issues that you've highlighted, but none of them are so epically retarded that they demand non-existent paperwork be provided to prove that a given thing has not happened.
It is literally an impossible thing to prove. All I could give them was a document from my home country that said as far as they knew I wasn't married, which proves absolutely nothing as I hadn't lived in that country for several years and could well have married literally anywhere else on the planet.
@@XXXX-yc6wvit's true they make it hard for people because they don't want make it to easy....no they want to make it as hard as possible so only the ones who really want to come go through all the shitty procedures.
2:38 Small correction here. Covering your face with clothes is not allowed.
Yes it is allowed but not in schools, public transport, hospitals and government buildings.
Plz just say girlfriend or boyfriend...partner is almost always the word gay people use 😄
bro it's not that deep
I used the word partner for my husband for 15+ years before we got married... You dont call your partner "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" when you've got kids or are over the age of 18.... Makes them sound like little kids
Nonsense. And if it were, so what?
Goodmorning. What up partner in crime zal ik je ff in je poepert pakken of is that to much sentisivity for you. 😁
Well. Just stare a while at your profile picture and let that text sink in.