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Publication date: 08 September 2023
The Czech Ministry of Interior is currently looking into the possibility of using real-time speech-translating devices during the asylum procedure, especially during the interviews. It launched an ad hoc query to find out if other Member States are using this type of system in the asylum procedure.
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: speech-translating device, interpretation, asylum procedure
Publication date: 05 September 2023
The Swedish government has established a committee to review aspects of Swedish legislation concerning the return procedures for third-country nationals. The committee's goal is to propose new measures and revisions to existing laws to enhance the effectiveness of the return process. Consequently, they initiated an ad hoc query to gather information about the regulations related to the limited validity period of return decisions and the duration of entry bans.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: return decision, entry ban
Publication date: 05 September 2023
In the Netherlands, there is a special policy applicable to third-country national children based on a family supervision order (child protection order) that is imposed by the juvenile court. The Dutch authorities launched this query because they want to know whether it is possible for a minor third-country national who is covered by a similar order to receive a residence permit in other Member States.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: accompanied children, family supervision order, protection order, vulnerable persons
Publication date: 01 September 2023
The Luxembourg Ombudsman for Children and Youth (OKaJu), together with UNICEF Luxembourg, is carrying out research on the situation of unaccompanied minors (UAMs) in Luxembourg. In this context, they would like to collect information on good practices in other EU Member States with a focus on the guardianship of UAMs.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: guardianship
Publication date: 28 August 2023
This ad hoc query aims to explore current practices and possible lessons learned on issuing or planning to issue digital-only identity and residency documents to third-country nationals.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: digitalisation, identity document, residence permit
Publication date: 09 August 2023
The Finnish Immigration Service launched an ad hoc query on data collection related to customer satisfaction and customer experience in migration processes to seek how these data are collected in other EU Member States, what challenges have arisen and how the information is used.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: customer satisfaction, customer experience
Publication date: 03 August 2023
Due to the increased need for foreign labour force, Member States are multiplying their negotiations of bilateral agreements and programmes with third countries on labour mobility. In order to have a current state of play and with a view to better coordinate this matter, the European Commission asked EMN Member countries to provide information on any bilateral agreement or programme supporting mobility from third countries.
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Main theme: External Dimension, Economic migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: labour migration, labour mobility, legal migration, bilateral agreements, bilateral programmes
Publication date: 05 July 2023
EMN Luxembourg launched an ad hoc query on the implementation of the Seasonal Workers Directive. More specifically, the questions focus on the possible requirement for seasonal workers to undergo a medical examination upon or before entry into the country, as well as on the national implementation of the right to equal treatment, as enshrined in Article 23(1) of said Directive.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: seasonal workers directive
Publication date: 27 June 2023
EMN Slovakia launched a series of questions regarding the implementation of the revised Blue Card Directive and, more specifically, the implementation of Article 13 of said Directive regarding recognition procedures for employers.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: EU blue card, highly qualified employment, recognised employer, simplified procedure
Publication date: 20 June 2023
The Belgian authorities are looking to improve/review the special residence procedure for unaccompanied foreign minors, known as the Best Interest Procedure. In this context, Belgium launched three ad hoc queries to seek information from other Member States on (i) similar residence procedures specifically for UAMs, (ii) procedures followed in case return to the country of origin is considered and (iii) steps taken to implement return decisions.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: residence procedure, unaccompanied minors
Publication date: 19 June 2023
EMN Sweden launched an ad hoc query regarding the derived right of residence of a third-country national family member under Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU). These questions were launched in the context of the Swedish Migration Agency’s analysis of the judgment of the CJEU in joined cases C-451/19 and C-532/19 (XU and QP).
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Main theme: Citizenship & Nationality
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: Treaty, derived right of residence, dependency
Publication date: 14 April 2023
In the context of the draft law ‘controlling immigration, improving integration’, currently under discussion in the French Parliament, France is reflecting on possible changes to the procedure for issuing a residence permit for care, whether of a legislative or regulatory nature. To examine the legal and operational feasibility of the proposed amendments, EMN France enquired from the Member States about the relevant legal provisions in this matter.
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Main theme: Migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: medical regularisation, humanitarian reasons
Publication date: 30 March 2023
In the event of implicit withdrawal or abandonment of an asylum application, Art. 28 par. 2 of the directive 2013/32/EU allows Member States to determine in their legislation a time limit of at least nine months, after which the applicant’s case can no longer be reopened or the new application may be treated as a subsequent application. The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees launched an ad hoc query to enquire whether and how the Member States transposed this provision.
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: asylum applications, withdrawal, subsequent application
Publication date: 16 March 2023
At the beginning of 2023, a coordination meeting of the directors of the Belgian closed detention centers was held. At this meeting, they expressed their concern about the significant increase in the trafficking of drugs inside their centers. That’s why EMN Belgium was asked to launch an ad hoc query in order to gather information on how this issue is addressed in the other Member States.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: detention, drug, trafficking of drugs, closed centre
Publication date: 06 March 2023
In response to the large influx of Ukrainian refugees, the Estonian Ministry of Culture is looking into setting up new possibilities for e-learning the local language. The objective of this query is to map other EMN Member and Observer Countries’ experience with technologies such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality, to develop an offer of virtual language learning.
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Main theme: Integration, Temporary protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: e-learning, language learning, artificial intelligence
Publication date: 03 March 2023
The Dutch National Contact Point (NCP) to the European Migration Network launched an ad hoc query on the existing data on unaccompanied minors (UAMs) outside of international protection procedures in other Member Countries. With this query, the Dutch NCP wanted to get a better picture of the total influx of UAMs in a European perspective.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, Data & Statistics, International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: unaccompanied minors, data collection
Publication date: 02 March 2023
In the Czech Republic, a marriage can, under the current legislation, only take place if both parties have legal residence on the territory. By launching this ad hoc query, the Czech National Contact Point (NCP) to the European Migration Network (EMN) wanted to know more about the existing practices in other Member Countries.
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Main theme: Family reunification, Irregular Migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: marriage of convenience, illegal stay
Publication date: 27 January 2023
Have Member States created municipal level centres where foreigners can receive the main migration and integration services in one place? This ad hoc query examines who are the actors involved and the services offered and to what extent foreigners are satisfied about such services.
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Main theme: Integration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: regional integration center, integration service
Publication date: 22 December 2022
This ad hoc query, launched by Luxembourg, examines what guidelines, procedures, and possible best practices are in place when LGBTIQ+ individuals are detained.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: detention, vulnerable persons
Publication date: 20 December 2022
Fedasil, the Belgian Reception Agency, aims to harmonise the use of interpreters in its reception facilities. This ad hoc query examines if Member States have established guidelines or instructions on the use of interpreting services and how these services are provided in reception facilities.
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Publication date: 04 December 2022
Have Member States planned to extend or issue new documents certifying the right of residence to beneficiaries of temporary protection whose certificates/visas/residence permits issued in 2022 are going to expire on 4 March 2023? This ad hoc query explores how Member States will address this, taking into account the large number of Ukrainians concerned.
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Main theme: Temporary protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: temporary protection, residence permit
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: Temporary protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: voluntary return, Ukraine
Publication date: 25 October 2022
Unaccompanied minors who have little or no perspective of receiving a residence permit within EU Member States, may have co-existing problems such as mental health issues or substance addiction. This ad hoc query examines how EU Member States deal with this specific group and how they could improve the reception and supervision of these young persons.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, Reception, International Protection, Irregular Migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: unaccompanied minors, mental health, criminality
Publication date: 19 October 2022
How do other EU Member States, and Georgia, recognise diplomas obtained in third countries? This ad hoc query, that Belgium launched in July 2022, focused on the (i) institutional landscape for diploma recognition throughout Europe, (ii) the role of Public Employment Services in this recognition and (iii) best practices that the responding States wanted to share regarding their diploma recognition practices, specifically in the context of the Ukrainian crisis. 20 countries answered the query.
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Publication date: 20 September 2022
This ad hoc query mainly collects information on calculation methods used to determine the necessary reception capacity for applicants for international protection and on the flexibility measures developed in case of shortage or surplus. It also examines how EMN Member and Observer Countries organise the outflow of beneficiaries of international protection and rejected applicants for international protection to housing and other forms of accommodation.
