Section 4 support: change requiring Iraqis to sign up to voluntary return
NCADC News Service X post | 29.07.2005 15:04 | Migration
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Section 4 support: change requiring Iraqis to sign up to voluntary return
The Home Office has announced that from Monday 1st August a safe route of return will exist for Iraqi asylum seekers whose asylum applications have been rejected. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is able to facilitate returns to Iraq flying to Erbil, via Baghdad and Amman. IOM has recently opened an office in Erbil with staff from the local community who will undertake "meet and greet" services and who can assist with travel arrangements to other areas of northern Iraq.
NCADC News Service
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Section 4 support: change requiring Iraqis to sign up to voluntary return
The Home Office has announced that from Monday 1st August a safe route of return will exist for Iraqi asylum seekers whose asylum applications have been rejected. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is able to facilitate returns to Iraq flying to Erbil, via Baghdad and Amman. IOM has recently opened an office in Erbil with staff from the local community who will undertake "meet and greet" services and who can assist with travel arrangements to other areas of northern Iraq.
From Monday 1st August all Iraqi asylum seekers who make a new application for section 4 support will be required to demonstrate that they satisfy one of the other criteria for support. In most cases this will mean demonstrating they are taking all reasonable steps to leave the UK or are placing themselves in a position in which they will be able to leave the UK.
From Thursday 1st September all Iraqi asylum seekers who are already in receipt of section 4 support will be expected to show they are complying with steps to remove them from the UK in order to continue to be eligible for section 4 support.
NASS is planning to write to all Iraqi nationals who are receipt of section 4 support to explain the situation. It plans to phase sending out of these letters. NASS intends to review cases closely to ensure that section 4 support is only continued for those who comply with voluntary return.
ICT will keep you updated.
Produced by the Inter Agency Co-ordination Team on behalf of the IAP.
Contact Louise Mitchell, Information & Research Co-ordinator, ICT
with any queries on the information contained within this bulletin.
Email:
louise.mitchell@refugeecouncil.org.uk
020 7346 1154
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From Thursday 1st September all Iraqi asylum seekers who are already in receipt of section 4 support will be expected to show they are complying with steps to remove them from the UK in order to continue to be eligible for section 4 support.
NASS is planning to write to all Iraqi nationals who are receipt of section 4 support to explain the situation. It plans to phase sending out of these letters. NASS intends to review cases closely to ensure that section 4 support is only continued for those who comply with voluntary return.
ICT will keep you updated.
Produced by the Inter Agency Co-ordination Team on behalf of the IAP.
Contact Louise Mitchell, Information & Research Co-ordinator, ICT
with any queries on the information contained within this bulletin.
Email:
louise.mitchell@refugeecouncil.org.uk 020 7346 1154
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Move along people, nothing to see here...
29.07.2005 22:34
If we had the same freedom of movement that corporations do they'd be fcuked, all stating the obvious, I know i just despreately want to find away to help asylum seekers as they are literally on our door step, oh the irony... But seriously I really believe that by challenging the hysteria over asylum we can open peoples minds to everything else, we really need to try to help them imtegrate as sinister as that may sound, to make the locals realise how much they have in common with their fellow workers or unemployed as it may be
Matt K