You can obtain a residence permit if you meet one of the following requirements:
- You have well-founded reasons to fear of persecution in your country of origin because of your race, religion, nationality or political opinion, or because you belong to a certain social group. These reasons are explained in the Geneva Convention on Refugees.
- You have well-founded reasons to fear the death penalty or execution, torture or other inhumane or degrading treatment in your country of origin.
- You have well-founded reasons to fear that you will become a victim of random violence due to an armed conflict in your country of origin.
- Your husband or wife, partner, father, mother or minor child has recently obtained an asylum residence permit in the Netherlands.