If you do not integrate in time

Are you required to integrate under the 2021 civic integration act? This will happen if you do not complete your integration in time:

• 2 months before the end of your integration period, you will get a letter from DUO. This letter contains the information DUO has about your integration so far.
• Once your integration period has passed, you will get another letter from DUO, called 'Vooraankondiging termijnoverschrijding' (pre-announcement of exceeding the integration period). The letter states that DUO may fine you, and the amount of the fine. DUO has yet to decide if you are in fact fined. The amount of the fine may also still change.
• The amount of the fine is based on the information DUO has about your integration so far. For instance, the number of hours of a course you followed. If DUO doesn’t have all the relevant information, pass on the correct information immediately.
• If you are fined, you will get a letter stating the amount of the fine and how to pay.

Types of fines

Fine for not completing your learning track in time

This fine never exceeds €1,000. When calculating the amount of the fine, we take into account:

• if you are an asylum status holder, family migrant, or other migrant.
• which learning track you are following.
• how many hours of a course you followed. If you are a family migrant or other migrant, only hours of a course with a school listed on zoekinburgerschool.nl (link in Dutch) Link opent externe pagina count.
• how many times you attempted to pass all exams.
• how many exams you have passed.

More information about the calculation of the fine (link in Dutch) Link opent externe pagina

Fine Participation statement (PVT)

If you do not complete the PVT in time, you will be fined €340.

Fine Job market and participation module (MAP)

If you do not complete the MAP in time, you will be fined €340.

After the fine: more time to integrate

Even if you are fined, you are still required to complete your integration. You will get extra time to do so.

Learning track not completed

Didn't you complete your learning track in time? How much extra time you get, depends on your situation.

You are following the B1-track or the O-track:

• If you didn’t pass any exams, you get 2 extra years to integrate.
• If you passed 1 exam, you get 1.5 extra years to integrate.
• If you passed 2 exams, you get 1 extra year to integrate.
• If you passed 3 or 4 exams, you get 6 extra months to integrate.

You are an asylum status holder following the Z-track. The course hours and participation hours will be combined:

• If you have 400 or fewer registered hours, you get 2 extra years to integrate.
• If you have between 400 and 800 registered hours, you get 1.5 extra years to integrate.
• If you have between 800 and 1200 registered hours, you get 1 extra year to integrate.
• If you have between 1200 and 1600 registered hours, you get 6 extra months to integrate.

You are a family or other migrant following the Z-track:

• If you followed 200 hours or less of a course, you get 2 extra years to integrate.
• If you followed between 200 and 400 hours of a course, you get 1.5 extra years to integrate.
• If you followed between 400 and 600 hours of a course, you get 1 extra year to integrate.
• If you followed between 600 and 800 hours of a course, you get 6 extra months to integrate.

PVT, MAP, or both not completed

• If you did not complete the PVT ('participatieverklaringstraject') in time, you will get 6 extra months.
• If you did not complete the MAP ('Module Arbeidsmarkt en Participatie') in time, you will get 6 extra months.
• If you did not complete both the PVT ('participatieverklaringstraject') and the MAP ('Module Arbeidsmarkt en Participatie') in time, you will get 1 extra year.

More than 1 fine

Did you get multiple fines? If you get extra time because of these, the longest period counts. The extra time for different fines is not combined.

If you do not integrate in time

Are you required to integrate under the 2013 civic integration act? This will happen if you do not complete your integration in time:

• You will get a letter from DUO, called 'Vooraankondiging termijnoverschrijding' (pre-announcement of exceeding the integration period). This letter announces that you have not completed your integration in time and that you will be fined.
• If you don’t respond, you will get another letter. This letters states the amount of the fine and how to pay.
• After the fine, you get 2 more years to obtain your integration diploma.
• If you are an asylum status holder and you were fined, you will need to repay your loan.

Types of fines

Fine for not obtaining your integration diploma in time

This fine never exceeds €1,250. When calculating the amount of the fine, we take into account:

• how many hours of a course you followed (integration course, literacy course, and Dutch as a second language course). Only hours of a course with a school listed on zoekinburgerschool.nl Link opent externe pagina  count.
• how many times you attempted to pass all exams.
• how many exams you have passed.

More information about the calculation of the fine (link in Dutch) Link opent externe pagina

Fine Participation statement process (PVT)

If you do not complete the PVT in time, you will be fined €340. Also, you won’t be able to borrow any more money from DUO.

After the fine: more time to integrate

Even if you are fined, you are still required to integrate. You get 2 extra years to do so.