voluntary return

Ad Hoc Query on supporting measures for Ukrainians wishing to go back to Ukraine on a voluntary basis

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.

Main theme: Ad Hoc Queries

Publication Type: EMN Reports & studies

Keywords: voluntary return, Ukraine

Return counselling (EMN Informs)

Publication date: 30 March 2020

These three EMN Informs look into i.a. possible approaches for return counselling, support for return counsellors, and information provision for the return of migrants.

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Publication Type: EMN inform

Keywords: voluntary return

Family Matters. A Study into the Factors Hampering Voluntary Return of Migrants Residing at Family Locations (IOM)

Publication date: 24 August 2018

This study provides insight into the decision-making process of migrant families in family locations in the Netherlands, whose legal remedies in most cases have been exhausted, but nevertheless decide not to return.

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Publication Type: Study

Keywords: voluntary return, families

Incentives to return to a third-country and support provided to migrants for their reintegration (EMN Inform)

Publication date: 08 June 2016

This EMN Inform provides an overview of the results of the review of 87 programmes implemented by 23 Member States and Norway to assist migrants to return and to support their reintegration.

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Publication Type: EMN inform

Keywords: financial assistance, reintegration programmes, voluntary return

Awareness and image of voluntary return - the perspective of irregular migrants and their representatives in Belgium (KUL)

Front page - Study on awareness and image of voluntary return (KUL)

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).

Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission

Publication Type: Study

Keywords: voluntary return

Dissemination of Information on Voluntary Return: how to reach irregular migrants not in contact with the authorities (EMN Inform)

Cover Image EMN Inform Dissemination of information on 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".

Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission

Publication Type: EMN inform

Keywords: voluntary return

Dissemination of information on voluntary return in Belgium and in the EU: how to reach irregular migrants not in contact with the authorities (EMN)

Cover image EU synthesis on dissemination of information on 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.

Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission

Publication Type: EMN Reports & studies

Keywords: voluntary return

Challenges and good practices in the return and reintegration of irregular migrants to Western Africa (EMN Inform)

Publication date: 01 January 2015

This EMN Inform provides information concerning EMN national Contact Points’ practices on return and reintegration to Western Africa.

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Publication Type: EMN inform

Keywords: assistance, reintegration programmes, voluntary return

EMN Return Experts Group (REG) Directory

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.

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Publication Type: EMN Reports & studies

Keywords: reintegration programmes, voluntary return

A brief overview of recent findings on return (EMN Inform)

First page of EMN inform on recent findings on 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.

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Publication Type: EMN inform

Keywords: forced return, return directive, voluntary return

EMN Ad-Hoc Query on Removal policies

Publication date: 09 August 2013

10 member states provided detailed information and statistical data on their removal policy, forced returns and assisted returns. This query was launched by the French EMN NCP

Main theme: Ad Hoc Queries

Keywords: forced return, Frontex, return policy, voluntary return

Year Report 2012 (IOM Brussels)

Publication date: 03 July 2013

This very first edition of the IOM Brussels Country Office (CO) Year Report will give you a brief overview of activities undertaken in 2012 allowing a focus on specific areas of interest linked to the Belgian and Luxembourg migration context and more broadly to the European and global context.

Main theme: External Dimension, Family reunification, Return & Readmission

Publication Type: Report

Keywords: voluntary return, development, reintegration

Overview of Belgian Figures on Asylum and Migration (EMN)

Snapshot of one page with tables and figures

Publication date: 25 June 2013

In order to satisfy the large demand for detailed figures on asylum and migration, the Belgian Contact Point of the EMN compiled in August 2012 a series of figures on asylum and migration.

Main theme: Data & Statistics

Keywords: asylum decisions, asylum applications, residence permit, forced return, voluntary return, work permit

Ad hoc query on the Return of Unaccompanied Minors

Publication date: 17 January 2013

This compilation of responses to a french ad hoc query provides information on the removal of unaccompanied minors in the EU Member States.

Main theme: Ad Hoc Queries

Keywords: age assessment, family tracing, forced return, unaccompanied minors, voluntary return

Fedasil communicates its statistics and analyses concerning voluntary returns

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.

Main theme: Return & Readmission, Data & Statistics

Keywords: migration statistics, voluntary return

Annual Report: Return and Emigration of Asylum Seekers Ex-Belgium (REAB)

Publication date: 04 May 2011

IOM published in cooperation with Fedasil the annual REAB-report 2010

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Publication Type: Report

Keywords: IOM, REAB program, reintegration programmes, voluntary return

Voluntary Return Programmes: Could they Assuage the effects of the Economic Crisis?

Publication date: 30 March 2011

To what extent the Voluntary Return Programmes for foreign workers can be helpful in order to decrease unemployment pressures in a context of economic crisis? In the background of lessons provided by experience in other countries, this paper analyzes the Spanish policy in that field.

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Publication Type: Study

Keywords: foreign workers, Spain, voluntary return

Nicole de Moor concludes an agreement with Senegal on return and legal migration

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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.

Main theme: Cross-sectional

Keywords: voluntary return, legal migration, circular migration

State Secretary for Asylum and Migration, Nicole de Moor: “Number of voluntary returns exceeds pre-corona levels”

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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.

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Keywords: voluntary return, forced return

2.426 voluntary returns conducted by Belgium in 2019

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Voluntary returns to the countries of origin are decreasing for the third consecutive year.

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Keywords: voluntary return

3.827 voluntary returns conducted by Belgium in 2017

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Voluntary returns to the countries of origin are decreasing. Among others, this is the result of the lower number of asylum applications the past two years.

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Keywords: voluntary return

Fedasil opens a return desk in Charleroi

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In october 2016, Fedasil has opened a new return desk in Charleroi, where migrants can receive information and assistance on voluntary return.

Main theme: Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission

Keywords: return desk, voluntary return

Voluntary departure premiums doubled for Iraqi and Afghan asylum seekers

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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.

Main theme: Asylum, Return & Readmission

Keywords: Afghanistan, departure premium, Iraq, voluntary return

Voluntary return: charter flight to Iraq

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For the first time in Europe, Fedasil and IOM organized on Monday 1st February 2016 a chartered flight to Baghdad for the voluntary return of 106 persons to Iraq.

Main theme: Return & Readmission

Keywords: voluntary return, IOM, Fedasil

EMN Conference in Belgium on the return of irregular and vulnerable migrants

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The conference of the Belgian National Contact Point to the EMN– which took place on 4 December in Brussels – focused on challenges and opportunities associated with the return of irregular and vulnerable migrants.