Publication date: 26 October 2022
Are the Member States providing any support measures to Ukrainian citizens wishing to go back to Ukraine on a voluntary basis? This ad hoc query launched by Estonia examines the current measures as well as possible plans, including to develop long-term support measures/programs for Ukrainians who wish to voluntarily go back to Ukraine.
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Main theme: Ad Hoc Queries
Publication Type: EMN Reports & studies
Keywords: voluntary return, Ukraine
Publication date: 10 May 2016
What image do irregular migrants and their representatives have of voluntary return? Is voluntary return well-known? These topics are the focus of a study carried out by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL).
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: voluntary return
Publication date: 03 November 2015
This EMN Inform summarises the main findings of the EMN Study "Dissemination of Information on Voluntary Return: how to reach irregular migrants not in contact with the authorities".
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: voluntary return
Publication date: 17 September 2015
This EMN study analyses and compares the different approaches used by Member States to ensure irregular migrants are informed of options for return.
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Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN Reports & studies
Keywords: voluntary return
Publication date: 01 January 2015
This EMN Inform provides information concerning EMN national Contact Points’ practices on return and reintegration to Western Africa.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: assistance, reintegration programmes, voluntary return
Publication date: 01 October 2014
The REG Directory “Connecting Return Experts across Europe” gives an overview of the programmes across Europe to support return and reintegration in third countries.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN Reports & studies
Keywords: reintegration programmes, voluntary return
Publication date: 19 November 2013
This EMN Inform provides an overview of current aspects of return in EU Schengen Member States and Norway, including statistics.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: EMN inform
Keywords: forced return, return directive, voluntary return
Publication date: 29 February 2012
The Belgian Federal Agency for Reception of Asylum Seekers presents the statistics of voluntary returns performed from Belgium in 2011.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission, Data & Statistics
Keywords: migration statistics, voluntary return
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The Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor signed today an agreement with the Senegalese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Annette Seck. Belgium and Senegal agreed to cooperate on the return of irregularly staying Senegalese nationals and on legal migration.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional
Keywords: voluntary return, legal migration, circular migration
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In 2022, 2,673 persons voluntarily returned to their country of origin. The number is higher than before the corona period, when 2,426 persons returned voluntarily in 2019.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: voluntary return, forced return
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At the initiative of the State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration, the premiums granted to Afghan and Iraqi nationals who voluntarily return to their country of origin have been temporarily doubled.
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Main theme: Asylum, Return & Readmission
Keywords: Afghanistan, departure premium, Iraq, voluntary return
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Today, on 14 February 2014, the first meeting took place of the Return and Reintegration Experts' Group (REG) under auspices of the European Migration Network. REG incorporates the former work of the Voluntary Return European Network.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: voluntary return, VREG
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Today, Tuesday 8 January 2013, the act of purchase was signed for the building that will become the open return centre in Holsbeek.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: return centre, voluntary return
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On 11 October 2012, The Immigration Office together with Fedasil organize an information session aimed at providing useful information on how to submit an admissible project under this call for projects.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: european return fund, voluntary return
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On 28 September 2012 a call for proposals was published in the Belgian Official Gazette, making available resources provided for voluntary return in the annual program 2012.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: european return fund, voluntary return
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The Christian Michelsen Institute published a report commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration on the Norwegian Information, Return, and Reintegration of Iraqi Nationals to Iraq (IRRINI) Programme. The research has been done in cooperation with the University of Duhok.
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Main theme: Integration, Return & Readmission
Keywords: reintegration program, voluntary return
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The Belgian Immigration Office started the SEFOR Project, which aims at ensuring the follow-up of the migrants having received an order to leave the territory, if they are effectively returning to their country of origin, voluntarily or not (SEFOR meaning "Sensibilisation, Follow-up, Return)