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Asylum seekers should receive information on how to apply for asylum even prior to lodging their application, provided by police and NGO.[1] However, in practice, this is covered by flyers placed in the departure police cells at the airport, and NGOs only have access to those people who have already lodged their application.
Once applicants filed their application at the transit zone, the social workers at the facility inform all asylum seekers on their rights and obligations. This information is accompanied by a flyer in multiple languages. NGOs providing free legal aid inform them on their legal status and access to the labour market (or lack thereof, as for the first 6 months of the procedure this is not provided).
The information provision system will be adequate as long as the NGOs providing free legal aid continue to do so, which is currently uncertain (See Legal aid).
[1] Section 3a(2) of the Asylum Act.