Failure To Meet The Obligations
Since the obligation was introduced for people entering after 1 January 2007, the law had no consequences for people failing to fulfil their obligations until 1 July 2010.
The law further states that the city council on the place of residence can decide whether a person who has been in the country for three and a half years and has not passed (or not taken) the exam is to be held accountable. In other words, whether the individual has made adequate efforts.
Read more about this topic: Integration Law For Immigrants To The Netherlands
Famous quotes containing the words failure to, failure, meet and/or obligations:
“I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)
“So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, that she cannot ... meet them all and find any large margin beyond for other cares and work. She serves the community in the very best and highest way it is possible to do, by giving birth to healthy children, whose physical strength has not been defrauded, and to whose moral and mental nature she can give the whole of her thoughts.”
—Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)
“The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not qualify as a parent. For a child who can claim love without meeting any of the obligations of love will be a self-centered child and many such children have grown up in our time to become petulant lovers and sullen marriage partners because the promise of unconditional love has not been fulfilled.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)