Researcher/counselor Family reunification

In Wageningen we would like to expand the Family Reunification team with enthusiastic volunteers. As a volunteer you can mean a lot to your client. You build a bond and keep your own files. Are you involved, careful and eager to learn? Then we would like to meet you!

Our volunteers provide this support

• Explain the family reunification procedure
• Helping with applying for a visa with which family members left behind can come to the Netherlands
• Maintaining contact with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND)
• Contact a lawyer if a visa application is unexpectedly rejected
• Answering questions from the IND together with refugees, and making agreements about sending the necessary documents from the country of origin to the Netherlands
• Discussing with refugees what travel route the remaining family members should take to a Dutch embassy (usually in a neighboring country) and from there to the Netherlands
• Contact the Dutch embassy to make an appointment with the remaining family members, for example for a DNA test.

What do we ask of you?

• you are practical, patient and have empathy;
• you are able to stimulate and motivate;
• you have an affinity with legal matters;
• you can work with a computer;
• you are available 2 half days a week for a period of one year, so that we can offer our clients a permanent and trusted contact person;

We offer you:

We greatly appreciate the efforts of our volunteers. That's why we also want to do something for you:

• a stimulating and challenging working environment with room for your own development and initiative;
• an induction program and opportunities to follow additional training, workshops and courses;
• a pleasant team, where experiences are shared to help each other and refugees together;
• guidance by a professional;
• plenty of opportunities to learn more about other cultures;
• a travel and expense allowance;