The return of illegally-staying third-country nationals is one of the main pillars of the EU’s policy on migration and … asylum. However, recent Eurostat data show that return rates at EU level have not improved despite the important increase in … the number of rejected asylum applications and in the number of return decisions issued since 2014. In its 2015 EU Action …

Given the recent increase in asylum applications in the EU and considering the general gap between third …

Family Reunification of Third-Country Nationals (TCNs) in the EU plus Norway: National Report. The Study aims to compare … national policies and/ or practices on family reunification between the different EU Member States plus Norway, and to provide … further aims to provide comparable data on the scale of family reunification in the EU28 plus Norway at present, as well as …

: Provide an overview of national policies and EU acquis aimed at attracting (highly) qualified third-country nationals for the … attractiveness of an EU Member State for (highly) qualified third-country nationals’ immigration; Draw conclusions on good practices …

template, primarily for a forthcoming overview, EU-level synthesis report: Beneficiaries of international protection travelling … to their country of origin: Challenges, Policies and Practices in the EU Member States, Norway and Switzerland, which … will be published on www.emn.ie and www.ec.europa.eu/emn. …

The following synthesis report presents an overview of the important challenges faced by national authorities in EU …