68 Georgian migrants repatriared from Europan countries
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68 Georgian citizens have been returned by charter flight from Dusseldorf, Germany to Georgia under the EU-Georgia Readmission Agreement, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said today.
The countries from which Georgians were returned include Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Island.
The agreement between the European Union and Georgia on the readmission of persons residing without authorisation defines procedures to be applied in case of readmission to their homeland of persons illegally residing on the territory of a foreign country.
All of those who were returned did not comply with the rules of staying in European countries anymore.
The charter flight was planned and organised jointly by Georgia’s Interior Ministry, the Federal Police of Germany and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex).
Five citizens returned to Georgia by their own wish, the Interior Ministry said.
The process for changing one’s surname has been made more difficult with the amendments prepared by the Ministry of Justice and passed by the Georgian parliament. The new regulations will help the Georgian government to easily identify citizens who violate visa free travel rules while the current law allows a person to change one’s surname 25 times or more on different grounds.
This time last year, a small Georgian delegation led by Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili left for a historic trip on which Georgians travelled visa-free for the first time to the European Union (EU).
Within a year of the Georgia-EU visa free agreement, 192,453 Georgian citizens have visited the Schengen Zone 258,663 times, the Georgian Interior Ministry reports. Deputy Interior Minister Nino Javakhadze stated that in total 1,001 Georgians were refused entry into the EU passport-free zone.
The government of Georgia has announced changes in the law that will introduce tougher sanctions against Georgian citizens violating the Georgia-EU visa-free travel agreement.The announcement came after today’s special meeting at the government of Georgia headquarters.
As the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports, they received 1290 applications about readmission from January 1st to April 30th while 1260 of them were confirmed and only 30 rejected.
Georgian Interior Minister has discussed steps taken by Georgia towards reducing asylum seekers from the country with his German colleague Horst Seehofer pointing out that there is a positive dynamic in terms of a decrease in their number.
The German Bundestag has declared Georgia a safe country on January 18, meaning that Georgians will not be eligible to seek asylum in Germany.
The Georgian interior ministry on Friday said 868 Georgian citizens had been deported from several European Union member states over the past three months for violation of mandatory terms of stay in the countries.
A total of 1,070 Georgian citizens have been deported from several European Union member states over the past three months for violations of mandatory terms of stay in the countries, the Georgian Interior Ministry said on Thursday.