How Long Municipalities Take to Set Your PIP: The 10-Week Target by Gemeente

About 41% of new inburgeraars (people with a civic-integration obligation) get their PIP (personal integration plan) within four weeks of their brede intake (broad intake interview), and roughly 71% get it within the statutory ten weeks, according to CBS Statistiek Wet inburgering figures for end 2025. But the gemeente (municipality) you land in matters enormously: across the roughly 270–295 municipalities with enough cases to rank, the share hitting the 10-week target ranges from under 30% to 100%. This page analyses CBS's official statistics; we are not a government body and do not produce these numbers, we only summarise them.

• The legal target is ten weeks. The gemeente must finalise your PIP within ten weeks of the brede intake. Nationally, about 71% of cases meet that target (CBS, end 2025).
• Most fast cases are very fast. Roughly 41% of people get the PIP within four weeks of the intake; a further ~30% land in the four-to-ten-week window.
• The settling clock looks slower. Measured from registration in the municipality (rather than from the intake), only about 40% reach the PIP within ten weeks — because the intake itself takes time to arrange.
• Your municipality matters. Among gemeenten with enough cases to rank, the 10-week hit-rate runs from under 30% to 100%. This is a local story, not just a national average.
• These are early-system figures. The 2021 law only started in 2022 and municipalities are still building capacity, so timing should be read as a snapshot of a system that is still ramping up.

Under Wet inburgering 2021 (the integration law that started on 1 January 2022), your municipality runs a brede intake (broad intake interview) to understand your background, education, and situation, then writes a PIP (Persoonlijk plan Inburgering en Participatie) — your personal integration and participation plan. The PIP sets your learning route and your obligations. The law gives the gemeente ten weeks after the brede intake to finalise the PIP. Until the PIP is set, your learning route is not formally fixed, so PIP timing is the gate that controls when integration actually starts.

For the step-by-step process behind these numbers, see our guides to the COA-to-gemeente journey, the personal integration plan (PIP), and what changed under Wet inburgering 2021.

Measured from the brede intake — the clock the ten-week target actually runs on — most PIPs are set quickly. The table below shows the national distribution for end 2025, across roughly 83,600 people with a measurable interval. Percentages are of that group.

Adding the first two rows, about 71% of people get their PIP within the ten-week target measured from the brede intake. The remaining roughly 29% run over, with a long tail: about 5% wait 30 weeks or more.

CBS also publishes the interval measured from settling (registration) in the municipality rather than from the intake, across roughly 96,700 people for end 2025. On that clock the picture looks slower, because arranging the intake itself takes time: about 6% have a PIP set before they even formally settle, 7% reach it within four weeks of settling, and 27% in the four-to-ten-week window — so roughly 40% are within ten weeks of settling. The gap between the two clocks (71% versus 40%) is essentially the time it takes to schedule and hold the brede intake.

The national average hides a very wide spread. CBS publishes a per-gemeente map of the share of people who reach the PIP within ten weeks of their brede intake. To avoid noise from tiny municipalities (where a handful of cases swing the percentage wildly), we ranked only gemeenten with at least 50 cases in the file — 272 of the roughly 328 with usable data; the other 56 were excluded from the ranking. Among the ranked municipalities the median is about 83% within ten weeks, but the range runs from 27% to 100%. The compact table below shows five of the fastest and five of the slowest; the full per-gemeente data is in the CBS source.

We report these neutrally: a low 10-week share does not necessarily mean a municipality is failing its residents. Timing can reflect caseload, the mix of newcomers, when people arrived, and local capacity, and CBS figures are rounded to the nearest five, so close municipalities are effectively tied. The point is the spread itself — where you settle has a real effect on how quickly your PIP, and therefore your learning route, is fixed.

The same pattern shows up on the alternative clock CBS maps — the share reaching the PIP within ten weeks of settling in the municipality. There the spread among ranked gemeenten (at least 50 cases; 295 of 324 with usable data) is even wider, with a median near 53% and a small number of larger municipalities, including 's-Gravenhage (The Hague, with the largest caseload in the file at roughly 3,955), sitting in the single digits on that measure. Because the settling clock includes the wait for an intake slot, it is a tougher test than the legal 10-week-from-intake target, and the two maps should not be read as the same metric.

An older CBS SWI snapshot from end 2022 — the first year of the new law — gives a sense of how far the system has come. At that point, of roughly 44,900 people in municipal guidance, only about 15,100 had a PIP and roughly 28,900 (about 64%) did not yet have one. That end-2022 figure is a separate, earlier snapshot and is not comparable to the end-2025 timing percentages above; it is included only to show that early in the rollout a large majority were still waiting for a plan, and that PIP coverage has since improved substantially.

Statistics describe averages; your own case depends on your municipality and your situation. If your PIP is taking longer than ten weeks after your brede intake, you are not alone — nationally roughly three in ten cases run over the target, and in some municipalities the majority do. The figures are most useful as context: they show that the ten-week target is met most of the time, that fast PIPs are common, and that there is a real, measurable difference between gemeenten.

To understand the process you are in, start with the journey from COA to your gemeente, then read our guide to the personal integration plan (PIP) for what it contains and how it is set. For the wider context of the reform, see what changed under Wet inburgering 2021.