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Department of Integration and Management of Foreigners

introduces Digital Portal to members of ATIA

ORANJESTAD – Aruba Trade for the next session, which
and Industry Association will be announced by e-
(ATIA) together with the De- mail.
partment of Integration and
Management of Foreigners Aruba Trade and Indus-
(DIMAS) organized the first try Association (ATIA) was
session for the members of founded in 1945 and is the
ATIA during which DIMAS main organization repre-
introduced their new Digi- senting businesses, busi-
tal Portal to apply for work nessmen and commerce
permits. in Aruba. The goal of ATIA
is to defend, promote and
More sessions are planed protect its members’ inter-
for the members of ATIA est and the commerce of
where they can find more Aruba in general.
information, receive their
For more information, visit
www.atiaruba.org and
their social media www.
registration and user names plication process for DIMAS facebook.com/aruba-
ready, and also receive a more efficient. trade, www.instagram.
thorough explanation of com/atiaruba, and https://
the digital process. ATIA thanks DIMAS for the www.linkedin.com/com-
presentation, and also asks pany/aruba-trade-and-in-
This portal will make the ap- its members to be pending dustry-association q

Aruba Huis together with the ministry of Education
Focus on a better transition for students from Aruba going to the Netherlands

ORANJESTAD – There is a had to start from scratch. erlands where they can
very serious housing crisis Premier Wever-Croes says begin applying for housing
in the Netherlands current- that it’s important to note way in advance. Aruba
ly, affecting not only stu- that currently, there are no Huis recommends for the
dents coming from abroad, students on the streets. students to begin applying
but Dutch people as well. for housing one year be-
This year some Universi- The Prime Minister, during fore their intended arrival
ties in the Netherlands sent conversations with some in the Netherlands. This way
communications informing of the students that went they can begin assessing
the students not to come to the Netherlands without the available possibilities,
to the Netherlands if they having arranged a place and this will increase the
didn’t have a place to live to live, said they made the students’ chances to be
yet, which shows the seri- decision to go to the Neth- considered for a house or
ousness of the situation. erlands without having a apartment.
permanent residence in or-
Aruba had a group of der to not miss the opportu- Currently, Aruba Huis does
around 40 students who nity to start the academic not have the possibility to
went to the Netherlands year. It’s worth noting that take charge of housing for rently being worked on It is important for these con-
without have a place to in the Netherlands you students. They will begin with Aruba Huis and the versations to continue to
live, but many of them al- need an address to register to work on the problem Secretary of State for King- see if it can be achieved,
ready found a place to stay as a resident and they have through a website, by giv- dom Relations, Alexandra the Prime Minister empha-
from the 1 st of September, very strict rules. “As long as ing more information and van Huffelen, is to allow sizes.
according to Prime Minister you’re not registered at an giving more guidance to students to receive a burg-
Evelyn Wever-Croes. address, you cannot get a the students. erservicenummer (BSN, To conclude, Wever-Croes
bank account, cannot get citizen registration number) said that right now, the
The group of students who internet or cellphone ser- As was announced some for the Netherlands in ad- housing situation requires
didn’t previously have a vice, etc.” time ago, Aruba Huis is go- vance, even if it’s a pro- more involvement by the
place to live is staying with ing through reorganization, fessional one, before they Aruba Huis, but maybe in
family, acquaintances or Role of Aruba Huis and and while doing this, the arrive in the Netherlands. If the future the situation will
at the student hotel that housing intention is to change the they have a BSN they can change again. If this is the
certain big cities have, but Aruba Huis (Aruba House current role of Aruba Huis begin arranging various case, then maybe the role
the latter is more expen- – the seat of the plenipo- in order to better serve the aspects for their housing, of Aruba Huis will change
sive. There were cases of tentiary minister of Aruba in needs of the Aruban peo- which can take between again, but right now, they
students who found a room the Netherlands), together ple, among other things, to 3 and 4 weeks, more in ad- see the need to be more
that they didn’t like, for with the minister of Educa- have a better transition for vance. active regarding housing
various reasons like it being tion, Endy Croes, will focus Arubans who go study in However, this is in the hands for students, and they will
too small and they wanted on better preparing the stu- the Netherlands. of the Dutch Government, do this, among other things,
more comfort and so they dents for next year. seeing as receiving a BSN in by facilitating registries that
rejected that room and There are cities in the Neth- Another aspect that is cur- advance is something big. a student can use.q