Committee members are civil servants from each of the Ministries. They are General Affairs (E Martina), Justice (G. Mussel), Finance (R. Brewster), Health and Social Affairs (R. Boasman), Traffic and Telecommunication (J. van Duinkerken) along with the committee is an expert from the Marrechaussee (J.Ploegstra) the latter is a document fraud expert. The chairperson of the committee comes from the Ministry of Justice and they will be provided with a secretary.
Members of the committee have several criteria to follow when analyzing the dossiers but the Minister has maintained his rights to decide on each of the dossiers based on his discretion. The Minister can also deliver a BTA permit based on humanitarian grounds which must be established by the applicant.
The committee must adhere to the guidelines laid down in the Brooks Tower Accord and the LTU admission and expulsion laws of St. Maarten. They are also mandated to check the authenticity of the documents in each of the dossiers. One of the first tasks the committee has is to pre-select which of the dossiers that has to be vetted by them, after which they will be divided into three categories based on the letter the Minister received from the prosecutor's office on March 1 2011.
Dossiers that were signed off and those rejected by the former Lt. Governors and Minister will not be subjected to vetting. Those that were approved but not signed off by the former Lt. Governor and Minister will be analyzed by the committee for completion and genuineness.
Dossiers that were not decided upon which includes all new application accepted during the BTA 2 renewal process will be analyzed based on category 2 and 3.
The criteria laid down for the analysis of these dossiers are as follows.
*Undocumented foreigners that are in the Netherlands Antilles before 2001 and have never left the Antilles. These persons have to prove that they have submitted a request for a temporary residency permits during the time they lived in the Netherlands Antilles. Those persons who are on the island for that same period of time but are married to a Dutch citizen do not have to show such proof. Persons falling under category two are for persons who can prove that they were in the Netherlands Antilles on or before January 1 2001 through December 31 2005 and have never left the Antilles. Employers of these persons must make the necessary retribution payments before the requests were submitted.
While category 3 are for undocumented foreigners who arrived in the Netherlands Antilles after December 31 2005, these dossiers will be analyzed based on the conditions laid down in the LTU (admission and expulsion law).
The committee also has to look at the files that fall under the steering group. Undocumented person's that lived in the Antilles for more than 10 years uninterrupted and could not comply with the BTA requirements but was mentioned in the report of September 2010. There must be three members of the committee present when the dossiers are being analyzed.
The Ministerial Decree issued by the Minister of Justice on the installation of the BTA committee.