Publication date: 26 May 2020
These studies explore the types of national protection statuses existing in Belgium and the EU, as well as their key characteristics in terms of procedures and rights.
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Main theme: Regularization, Vulnerable groups
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: protection status
Publication date: 26 June 2018
In this annual report Myria analyses the current migration and tests policy and practice against respect for fundamental rights. Myria draws conclusions and formulates policy recommandations.
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Main theme: Regularization, Data & Statistics, International Protection, Economic migration, Family reunification, Citizenship & Nationality
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: fundamental rights
Publication date: 14 June 2013
The annual "activity report" 2012 of the Immigration Office is available.
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Publication date: 28 June 2012
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism presented today its fifth Annual Report on Migration, with data and analysis on different migration topics (international protection, the right to family life, return, ...)
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Regularization, Data & Statistics
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: annual report
Publication date: 20 October 2011
The Belgian EMN NCP updated a report on protection statuses and published the report. The publication was presented on the EMN-national seminar on 60 years Geneva convention on October 14, 2011 which took place at Residence Palace in Brussels.
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Main theme: International Protection, Regularization
Publication Type: Thematic Studies
Keywords: protection, status
Publication date: 23 June 2011
This is the Annual Report 2010 of the Belgian Immigration Office (Dienst Vreemdelingenzaken/Office des Etrangers)
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Publication date: 11 May 2011
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) published a study on the socio-economical status of regularized persons (Law of 22 December 1999)
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Main theme: Migration, Irregular Migration, Regularization
Publication Type: Study
Keywords: regularization campaign
Publication date: 11 May 2011
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) published its fourth annual report 'Migration'. The Centre pleads for the third year in a row for a sustainable migration policy in Belgium.
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Main theme: Asylum, Migration, Family reunification, Citizenship & Nationality, Irregular Migration, Return & Readmission, Regularization
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: annual report, migration policy
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Myria has published the second thematic section of its 2023 annual report. This section entitled "Humanitarian and medical regularisation" reports that 2.038 persons were regularized on humanitarian grounds in Belgium in 2022 (10% less than in 2021) and 248 persons were authorised to reside in Belgium on medical grounds in 2022 (against 1,330 people whose application was refused).
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Main theme: Regularization
Keywords: humanitarian regularisation, medical regularisation
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This year's Austrian National EMN Conference will focus on migration forecasts, scenarios and early warning systems, in order to predict migration developments.
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Main theme: Regularization
Keywords: forecasting
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The EMN has recently conducted a study on "Comparative overview of national protection statuses”. A short video was created to highlight some of the key findings of this study.
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Main theme: Regularization
Keywords: video
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In 2018, the European Migration Network (EMN) celebrates its 10 year anniversary. On this occasion, the EMN organized a conference on 15 May in Brussels.
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Today, 1 July 2013, the "Law Program" from 28 June 2013 involving a number of changes for foreigners living in Belgium, enters into force. The political agreement on the Law was reached in the framework of discussions on the budget.
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Main theme: Migration, Regularization
Keywords: family member, mobile EU citizen, social assistance, social integration
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The preliminary executive summary of the report concludes that it is necessary to push forward discussions in order to move towards legislation in the area in the near future.
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Main theme: Regularization, Return & Readmission
Keywords: tolerated status, non-removable migrant
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Abraço invites you to an information session on the rights of migrant workers and the regularization based on humanitarian grounds. Members of the federal public services will take the floor in French and Protuguese.
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Main theme: Economic migration, Regularization
Keywords: humanitarian ground, migrant worker
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On April 18th, the Association on the Aliens Law (ADDE) will propose a workshop in order to update and integrate different issues concerning the reforms of the immigration laws, and particularly the law of 15 December 1980.
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Main theme: Regularization
Keywords: law of 15 December 1980; reception law
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Today, the International Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives, adopted a draft law amending provisions relating to the regularization for medical reasons, in order to avoid abuse of this procedure and in particular to discourage manifestly unfounded claims.
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Main theme: Regularization
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The federal State Secretary for Migration and Asylum Policies Melchior Wathelet has given a pressconference presenting the asylum and migration policies in 2010 and providing an overview of some statistical data.