ASSISTED VOLUNTARY RETURN

IOM: Assisted Voluntary Return EU Quarterly report (2009.02)

Based on the submitted quarterly reports for the first three quarters of 2008, responses received from 13 EU Member States + Norway and Switzerland for the first two quarters, and from 11 EU Member States + Norway and Switzerland for the third quarter:

You can find the edition in english here: AVR EU Quarterly Report.pdf

The European Parliamen has confirmed a new directive, that will assess the standards of general retrieval of illegal migrants in EU. This directive motivates voluntarily retrieval.

On the 18^th of June 2008 the Parliament approved the compromised directive for repatriation of illegal migrants, which provides the general standards for the detention and retrieval of illegal migrants. Even though there were plenty of discussions for permissible detention periods and migrants’ rights security, this was the first step towards communal EU immigration policy. The following steps created the “blue cards” for those foreign specialists willing to work and the third directive for penalties for employers who hire “illegals”, which is under consideration at the moment.

You can find the text of this document and discussions related to the consideration and acceptance of the directive here:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P6-TA-2008-0293+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN

The International Organization for Migration has been doing repatriation programmes for more than 20 years, therefore it has quite a lot of experience in this range. Since the beginning of it’s work, IOM has helped voluntarily repatriate and reintegrate more than 40 000 migrants.

The IOM office in Brussels published a report on the retrieval programme in 2008, where the documents of the European Union and pecularities of Belgium migration policy are analysed, also basic events and activities, connected to voluntarily return and reintegration of year 2007, are written. 

You can find the edition in English here:  FinalReport-Belgium2007.pdf

International Organization for Migration is temporary restricting voluntarily return to Somalia.

You can find more information about immigration to Lithuania in English (brosiura_angl_1.pdf) and in Russian (brosiura1_ru_1.pdf) here.

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