Publication date: 04 July 2024
This ad hoc query maps the financial allocations for which beneficiaries of international protection are eligible once they reach retirement age, and the possibility of combining them with pension benefits from their countries of origin.
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: beneficiary of international protection, pension, retirement
Publication date: 03 July 2024
This ad hoc query examines which alternatives to detention are most commonly used, especially for families with children, and how the effectiveness of the alternatives to detention is assessed. It further analyses which elements (indicators, statements, etc.) are taken into account before imposing an alternative to detention and what challenges are faced in this matter.
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Main theme: Return & Readmission
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: alternative to detention, family with children, risk of absconding
Publication date: 21 June 2024
In its 2023 Annual Report, Fedasil reviews the key events of the year and provides an overview of the reception network for international protection applicants, the resettlement of refugees, and voluntary returns. The report also presents key statistics that offer valuable insights into these areas, helping to illustrate both the challenges faced and the progress made.
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Main theme: Reception
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: annual report, Fedasil, reception capacity, resettlement, voluntary return, reintegration assistance
Publication date: 20 June 2024
This ad hoc query looks at the possibility for third-country nationals to begin their employment while waiting for the issuance of their single permit, in order to circumvent lengthy processing times.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: single permit, processing time, access to work, labour market access
Publication date: 20 June 2024
In its annual report 2023, Fairwork Belgium reports on requests for assistance received in 2023 and provides further details on the profiles of the people concerned and the phenomena and abuses of which they are victims. Specific attention is paid to inter alia the misuse of the single permit system, the exploitation of posted workers, the false self-employment of applicants for international protection, and the au-pair employment as domestic worker.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: foreign workers, undocumented worker, exploitation, domestic worker, au-pair
Publication date: 05 June 2024
FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2024 analyses the year’s developments in fundamental rights. It focuses on the most pressing fundamental rights concerns facing Europe in 2023: the cost-of-living crisis, rights concerns at the EU’s external borders and migration, and threats to democracy.
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Publication date: 03 June 2024
This ad hoc query maps the pathways to citizenship in place across EMN Member and Observer countries. The information reported covers the possibility of dual citizenship, the residence, linguistic and economic criteria to obtain citizenship, and the process fees required by responding countries.
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Main theme: Citizenship & Nationality
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: acquisition of citizenship, Naturalisation, dual citizenship, official language, economic participation, administrative fee
Publication date: 02 June 2024
This ad hoc query serves as an update and supplement to the information provided in the 2019 Study titled: ‘Beneficiaries of International Protection travelling to their country of origin: Challenges, Policies and Practices in the EU Member States, Norway and Switzerland’. It addresses the cessation of international protection for individuals who travel to or contact authorities in their country of origin.
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: beneficiary of international protection, cessation, voluntary re-availment of national protection
Publication date: 02 June 2024
This ad hoc query seeks to better understand EMN Member and Observer countries’ approaches to language learning by third-country nationals.
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Main theme: Integration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: language learning, civic integration programme
Publication date: 21 May 2024
This Inform, jointly produced by the European Migration Network and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, offers an analysis of employment trends, policy priorities, and measures aimed at facilitating the integration of displaced individuals from Ukraine into host countries' labour markets.
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Main theme: Integration, Temporary protection
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: Temporary Protection Directive, Ukraine, beneficiary of temporary protection, employment, self-employment, employment rate, education, language barrier, skills recognition, labour market integration, recognition of qualifications
Publication date: 16 May 2024
This ad hoc query seeks to compare the au pair regulations of the EMN Member and Observer Countries to reduce the vulnerability of au pairs and prevent possible abuse of the programme in the Netherlands.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: au pair, residence permit, sponsor, financial requirement
Publication date: 05 May 2024
This ad hoc query maps the existing procedures in EMN Member and Observer Countries to obtain the recognition of third-country qualifications for the profession of doctor with basic medical training. It looks into the requirements in place, including linguistic criteria, the cost of the procedure for the applicant, and the number of applications received and processed in 2023.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: recognition of qualifications, doctor, labour shortages
Publication date: 05 May 2024
This ad hoc query seeks to map the processes in place across EMN Member and Observer Countries to conduct systematic post-decision monitoring of residence permits; in other words, to check whether residence permit holders still fulfill the criteria of their residence permits.
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Main theme: Migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: residence permit, criteria, monitoring, revocation
Publication date: 03 May 2024
This ad hoc query seeks to better understand EMN Member and Observer Countries’ approaches to the accommodation of individuals who have been granted a status (international protection or humanitarian permission) and to requirements for financial contributions for those with these statuses.
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: beneficiary of international protection, reception centre, financial contribution
Publication date: 03 May 2024
This ad hoc query seeks to better understand EMN Member and Observer Countries’ approaches to financial contributions in the context of reception for international protection applicants.
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Main theme: Reception
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: applicant for international protection, reception centre, financial contribution
Publication date: 02 May 2024
Under Council Directive 2004/81/EC, EU Member States have the option to grant residence permits to third-country nationals who have been the subject of an action to facilitate illegal immigration, such as smuggling. This ad hoc query seeks to map which Member States have implemented this possibility, and to what extent this residence procedure is used in practice.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: residence permit, migrant smuggling, victim
Publication date: 01 May 2024
This EMNews (used to be named Quarterly or Bulletin) of the European Migration Network (EMN) offers an overview of EU and national developments in asylum and migration policy as well as an overview of key statistics, plus related EMN publications for the period January - March 2024.
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Main theme: Cross-sectional, Asylum, Migration
Publication Type: EMNews
Publication date: 29 April 2024
The general report 2023 of the Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) includes a stocktaking of the third evaluation round of the Convention, which focused on trafficking victims’ access to justice and effective remedies. GRETA analyses trends emerging from its country reports, drawing attention to gaps in the implementation of the Convention, as well as promising practices.
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Main theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Publication Type: Report
Keywords: GRETA, access to justice, effective remedy, vulnerability, displaced person
Publication date: 27 April 2024
This ad hoc query seeks to establish which stay qualifies as a continuous stay under Article 4(3) of the Long-Term Residents Directive and whether an absence from a territory on which a person does not have a valid residence permit interrupts the continuity of the stay under this directive. It also examines whether EMN Member and Observer Countries accept longer periods of absence than those provided for in the directive.
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Main theme: Migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: Long-term Residents, duration of residence, period of absence
Publication date: 25 April 2024
This ad hoc query examines how Article 8 ECHR relating to the right to respect for private and family life may lead to specific residence permits in EMN Member and Observer Countries, and how it is taken into account in national legislation and procedures applicable to foreign nationals.
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Main theme: Family reunification
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: family tie, private life, family life, residence permit, European Convention on Human Rights
Publication date: 25 April 2024
Through this ad hoc query, the Slovak Republic collects information on EMN Member and Observer countries' experiences in recording data on the vulnerability of applicants for international protection and generating statistical reports related to vulnerability.
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Main theme: Vulnerable groups, International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: applicant for international protection, vulnerability, data collection
Publication date: 25 April 2024
This ad hoc query explores the procedures in place across EMN Member and Observer Countries to recognise documents required to engage in “regulated professions” versus “unregulated professions”, as set out in Article 5 of Directive (EU) 2021/1883 on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purpose of highly qualified employment.
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Main theme: Economic migration
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: standard of proof, qualification, regulated profession, unregulated profession
Publication date: 20 April 2024
This ad hoc query provides comparative information on the implementation of Directive 2013/32/EU on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection (recast), the strategies developed by EMN Member and Observer Countries for processing subsequent applications, and reception services offered to individuals who have submitted a subsequent application.
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Main theme: International Protection
Publication Type: Ad Hoc Queries
Keywords: application for international protection, subsequent application
Publication date: 19 April 2024
On the 20th Anniversary of the Family Reunification Directive, this Inform offers a thorough examination of family reunification practices and legislation for beneficiaries of international protection across EMN Member and Observer Countries. It specifically looks at the procedures in place for applying for family reunification and how these have evolved considering recent (since 2017) case law before the European Court of Justice (CJEU), and where relevant the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
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Main theme: Family reunification
Publication Type: Informs
Keywords: Family Reunification Directive, beneficiary of international protection, application for family reunification, documentary proof, real family relationship, minors of age
Publication date: 06 April 2024
This ad hoc query offers comparative information on citizenship tests as part of the naturalisation process. It examines whether EMN Member and Observer Countries organise a citizenship test in order to acquire nationality, the authority or institution responsible for administering and drafting these tests, the topics covered, the connection between language and citizenship components in these tests, measures or sanctions in place to prevent potential misuse, and fees for participating in citizenship tests.