The 10-week deadline depends on your start date
Your municipality normally has 10 weeks from the letter saying you must integrate to set your PIP. This rule applies under the Wet inburgering 2021 (Civic Integration Act 2021). For allocated municipal housing, count from registration if you were not registered there on the notice date. The brede intake (broad intake assessment) date is a separate statistical measure. Ask your municipality which start date and any legal exception apply.
What does your PIP decide?
Your PIP sets your learning route and obligations. Your municipality first carries out the brede intake to assess your education, work experience, ability to learn and personal situation. It records the route and support you need in the Persoonlijk plan inburgering en participatie.
The law applies if your obligation to complete inburgering (civic integration) started from 1 January 2022. The Rijksoverheid (Dutch government): overview of the 2021 law (External site, opens in a new tab) explains the municipal role.
The PIP makes your route formal. A delayed plan can delay your route.
Your 3-year integration period starts the day after the date on your first PIP. A revised PIP keeps that start date. These rules appear in articles 11, 14 and 15 of the law (External site, opens in a new tab).
For the process before municipal housing, see the journey from COA (Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers) to your municipality. For the wider reform, see what changed under Wet inburgering 2021.
When does the 10-week deadline start?
The normal deadline starts from the written notice telling you that you must integrate. DUO (Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs, the Dutch education service) (External site, opens in a new tab) sends that notice. Your municipality must set the PIP within 10 weeks of that date.
A different start date applies if, on the date of that notice, you were not yet registered in the municipality that would provide your allocated housing. This covers housing under article 28 of the Huisvestingswet 2014 (Housing Act 2014), for example after asylum reception. The municipality then has 10 weeks from your registration in the BRP (Personal Records Database) there. The 2022 amendment to article 5.3 (External site, opens in a new tab) sets both start dates.
The municipality may exceed the deadline only while it waits for essential information from a third party. The missing information must make it reasonably impossible to set the PIP within 10 weeks. It must then set the plan within 2 weeks of receiving that information. A shortage of staff or a delay by its intake contractor does not meet that exception.
For example, a normal start date of 1 September 2026 gives a 10-week deadline of 10 November 2026, unless the legal exception applies. The intake date does not restart those 10 weeks.
If you move with an existing PIP, your new municipality has 10 weeks from registration there to set it again. The guide to moving house during inburgering explains how to keep your plan and lessons on schedule.
How long do people wait after the intake?
About 71% of the measured cases reached a PIP within 10 weeks of the start of the brede intake. The table uses end-2025 CBS data, for about 83,600 people with a measurable interval. It describes completed waits from the intake, rather than whether municipalities met the legal deadline.
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| Time from start of intake to PIP | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Under 4 weeks | About 34,200 | About 41% |
| 4–10 weeks | About 25,100 | About 30% |
| 10–15 weeks | About 10,100 | About 12% |
| 15–30 weeks | About 9,900 | About 12% |
| 30 weeks or more | About 4,300 | About 5% |
The first two rows add up to about 71%. About 29% took longer than 10 weeks, including about 5% who waited 30 weeks or more.
How long do people wait after settling?
CBS also measures time from vestiging (settling in the municipality) to the PIP. For asylum migrants, CBS normally uses the date their COA reception agreement ends.
CBS uses the DUO notice date instead for asylum migrants in any of these three situations:
- They never lived in COA reception.
- They lived elsewhere while registered with COA.
- Their reception agreement ended before 2022.
For family and other migrants, CBS also uses the DUO notice date because they are already settled. These are statistical dates; check your own legal start date with your municipality.
The end-2025 settling figures cover about 96,700 people. About 6% had a PIP before settling, 7% received it in under 4 weeks and 27% between 4 and 10 weeks. Including plans set before settling, about 40% had a PIP by 10 weeks after settling.
The two national percentages differ by about 31 percentage points. They use different start dates and different groups with measurable dates. The settling measure can include time spent waiting for the intake, so the gap cannot be read as an exact intake waiting time.
How do waiting times differ by municipality?
The intake-based 10-week share ranges from about 27% to 100% among municipalities with at least 50 measured cases. Our comparison includes 272 of 328 municipalities with usable data. It leaves out 56 with fewer than 50 cases. The middle municipality has a share of about 83%.
The table shows five municipalities with the highest shares and five with the lowest. It uses the end-2025 CBS map data. Open the CBS municipal PIP maps (External site, opens in a new tab) to find another municipality.
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| Municipality | PIP within 10 weeks of intake | Measured cases |
|---|---|---|
| Vlaardingen (highest shares) | About 100% | About 495 |
| Schiedam (highest shares) | About 100% | About 465 |
| Westland (highest shares) | About 100% | About 455 |
| Heerenveen (highest shares) | About 100% | About 260 |
| Wijchen (highest shares) | About 100% | About 245 |
| Papendrecht (lowest shares) | About 35% | About 100 |
| Heemskerk (lowest shares) | About 34% | About 175 |
| Gilze en Rijen (lowest shares) | About 32% | About 110 |
| Venlo (lowest shares) | About 30% | About 485 |
| Oisterwijk (lowest shares) | About 27% | About 55 |
CBS rounds counts to the nearest five, so small differences between municipalities may reflect rounding. The tables describe the recorded waits; they do not establish why a municipality took longer.
CBS also maps the share with a PIP by 10 weeks after settling. With the same minimum of 50 cases, this comparison includes 295 of the 324 municipalities with usable data; we excluded 29 with fewer than 50 cases. The middle share is about 53%. Some larger municipalities have shares below 10%, including 's-Gravenhage (The Hague), with about 3,955 cases.
The settling map includes time before the intake. The intake map starts at the intake. Neither map by itself checks the correct legal start date and exception for each person.
Why are the end-2022 figures different?
The end-2022 figures measure whether people had a PIP at year end. The end-2025 timing figures measure how long people with usable dates waited. In its April 2024 report, CBS counted about 26,500 people whose integration obligation began in 2022. About 34% had a PIP by the end of that year; about two thirds did not. These figures were preliminary. The CBS 2022 report (External site, opens in a new tab) measures coverage during the law's first year.
Use the end-2025 timing figures as historical context for a wait, and ask your municipality about your current case.
How did we calculate the shares?
We used the per-chart CSV (spreadsheet data file) downloads in the CBS Statistiek Wet Inburgering (civic integration law statistics) dashboard. The end-2025 charts cover the first 4 years of the law.
The CBS population note for the PIP charts (External site, opens in a new tab) says these charts exclude people whose obligation ended. They also exclude people with an exemption or a waiver. People in these groups are included if they had both an intake start date and a PIP. The charts include people who completed integration.
The intake statistics use the earliest recorded intake date from the original municipality and the earliest recorded PIP date. The intake figures exclude unknown intake dates and cases where the PIP date falls before the intake starts.
Excluding municipalities with fewer than 50 measured cases reduces the effect of very small groups. CBS hides counts below 10. Rounded categories may not add up to the total.
CBS may revise the preliminary 2025 figures. We analyse the official statistics; CBS publishes the underlying data.
What should you do if you are still waiting?
While you wait for your first PIP, ask your municipality about your legal start date. Ask when it will set the plan. Give the date of your DUO notice. If you received allocated municipal housing, give your registration date there too. After 10 weeks from your legal start date, ask whether the third-party-information exception applies. Ask what information is still missing.
If you move with an existing PIP, count your new municipality’s 10 weeks from registration there. Your original 3-year integration period keeps running. Use the CBS figures to compare recorded waits, and use your own dates to check the deadline.
Related pages:
Official Sources
- CBS: Statistiek Wet Inburgering dashboard (External site, opens in a new tab) - National PIP waiting-time bands and municipal 10-week maps through end 2025. Figures for 2025 are preliminary; CSV counts are rounded to the nearest five. The intake-based figures measure time from the start of the intake, not compliance with the legal deadline.
- Rijksoverheid: Wet inburgering 2021 (External site, opens in a new tab) - The law applies to people whose integration obligation starts from 1 January 2022. Municipalities conduct the broad intake and set the personal plan.
- Besluit inburgering 2021 (Civic Integration Decree 2021): amended PIP deadline (External site, opens in a new tab) - Article I(E) amends article 5.3: 10 weeks after written notification of the obligation, or the specified municipal-housing registration date. Essential information awaited from a third party permits a delay; the plan then follows within 2 weeks of receipt.
- Wet inburgering 2021: intake, PIP and integration period (External site, opens in a new tab) - Articles 14 and 15 describe the intake and the route, support and obligations in the PIP. Article 11 starts the 3-year integration period the day after the first PIP date; a revised plan keeps that start date.
- Besluit inburgering 2021: PIP after a move (External site, opens in a new tab) - Article 5.3(2), renumbered to 5.3(3) by the 2022 amendment, gives the receiving municipality 10 weeks after registration to set an existing PIP again.
- CBS: Statistiek Wet Inburgering 2022 report (External site, opens in a new tab) - Historical report published in April 2024: about 26,500 people became subject to the new law in 2022; 34% had a PIP by year end. These preliminary coverage figures measure a different population and question from the end-2025 timing charts.
- DUO: the integration letter and broad intake (External site, opens in a new tab) - Under the 2021 law, DUO sends a letter saying you must integrate. The municipality invites you for the broad intake and records your route and required exams in a PIP.