DEN HAAG (ANP) - State Secretary Nebahat Albayrak (Justice) has since its arrival about 340 times a residence permit granted to rejected asylum seekers. They made use of a special power to intervene in cases harrowing yet to provide a residence status.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said this Wednesday after reporting in De Telegraaf. The power to pardon is separate from the general amnesty for an 'old' group of asylum seekers, which Albayrak has been reached.

Rita Verdonk has her period as Minister for Immigration about 1150 times exercised its power to intervene in a residence harrowing cases still to rejected asylum seekers. Albayrak followed her in February 2007 on.