The conditions and security of family reunion score around halfway to best practice, while eligibility slips into slightly unfavourable. Although migrants are eligible to sponsor relatives after no more than a year, family members must meet numerous conditions to move to the Netherlands. Families must pass conditions including proof of sufficient income and a pre-admission integration test (see box). Reunited families can be expelled on a number of grounds, without all of their circumstances taken into account. However, families' security is protected by full rights to a reasoned decision and appeal. Depending on their sponsors' residence rights, reunited family members can get an autonomous residence permit after three years. They also have equal rights as their sponsors to education, training, employment, social security, healthcare and housing.
