THE ENTRY BAN FOR THE NETHERLANDS AS OF 5 AUGUST 2020

04/08/2020

 

The Netherlands has reintroduced the entry ban for Algeria on 5 August 2020 at midnight. This decision was made on the basis of a risk assessment with the most objective criteria regarding the health situation in Algeria and the measures in force there. In that context, the number of new infections is being examined. That number must be lower than the European average of 15 June 2020 per 100,000 inhabitants over the past 14 days. It also looks at the overall response to COVID-19 in the country concerned. This includes the number of corona tests performed, source and contact detection and control measures. Health organizations such as ECDC, WHO and RIVM provide the necessary information for this.

The lifting of the travel restriction as of 1 July 2020 for travelers who reside permanently in the following countries:

Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay remains power. For travelers from China, the entry ban will be lifted as soon as China itself also allows EU citizens.

For all non-essential travel of persons from other third countries (countries other than the EU + region) to Europe, the current entry restriction remains in force with the aim of preventing the spread of the coronavirus. This means that persons who do not have a permanent residence in an abovementioned country on the green list and who do not fall under the following exceptional position will not enter the Netherlands.

With regard to home quarantine, a distinction is made between the different exception categories. There is no urgent advice for home quarantine for the first category of exceptions, but the second category for exceptions does.

 

Exception categories for which there is no urgent advice for home quarantine:

• Healthcare personnel;
• Frontier workers;
• Persons working in the transport of goods and other transport personnel, persons working in the energy sector, and flight crew;
• Transit passengers who want to travel to another third country via the Netherlands or another Schengen country;
• Seafarers in possession of a seaman's book. The exceptions do not apply to seafarers on commercial yachts and pleasure craft.
• Diplomats if they travel in the performance of their duties;
• Military personnel when they travel in the performance of their duties;
• Personnel of international organizations and humanitarian organizations;
• Persons who have compelling reasons to visit their family; this concerns traveling in exceptional cases. An exceptional case is visiting a terminally ill family member and attending a funeral. It is intended for the first and second degree family members. Partner and children are first degree and grandchildren are second degree.

 

Exception categories for which urgent advice for home quarantine applies:

• EU citizens (including UK nationals) and their family members, including those covered by the long distance relationship;
• Nationals of Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Monaco, Vatican City and Andorra and their family members;
• Third-country nationals who hold a residence card or residence permit in accordance with Directive 2003/109 / EC (the Long-Term Residents Directive) and their family members;
• Third-country nationals who derive their right of residence from other European directives or from the national law of a Member State and their family members;
• Holders of a long-stay visa, including those with a temporary residence permit (MVV).
• Persons in need of international protection; the border procedure applies in full;
• Persons admitted for humanitarian reasons;
• Students in possession of a notification letter from the Immigration and Naturalization Service;
• Highly skilled migrants in possession of a notification letter from the Immigration and Naturalization Service or a Dutch work permit.