Alternative Refugee Pathways Factsheet Protected Entry Schemes

COMPLEMENTARY REFUGEE PATHWAYS: PROTECTED ENTRY SCHEMES. Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. Last update: March 2021. Special visa pathways can offer asylum seekers abroad protection and safe passage, removing the need for dangerous journeys, disrupting people-smuggling operations, and decreasing disorderly movement.

To allow refugees and asylum seekers to apply for entry into a territory for the purposes of obtaining protection, and therefore provide an alternative to irregular and potentially dangerous cross-border journeys. Resources used. Protected entry procedures are policy-based mechanisms.

increase the availability and predictability of complementary pathways to protection and solutions for refugees. Such pathways include family reunification, private or community sponsorship, humanitarian admission programmes, and education and labour mobility opportunities. This report

Sep 19, 2016 complementary pathways for admission by refugees to third counties, focusing on non-humanitarian regular entry visas granted for family, study or work purposes in OECD destination countries since 2010. While UNHCR has data on the number of refugees who have been resettled, achieved local integration

Pathways include existing admission avenues that refugees may be eligible to apply to, but which may require administrative and operational adjustments to facilitate refugee access. They must be carefully designed and implemented to ensure the protection and rights of refugees.

This Policy Brief examines complementary pathways known as protected entry procedures, which allow refugees and asylum seekers to apply for entry into another country for the purpose of accessing protection under international law.

THE STRATEGY AT A GLANCE VISION GOALS AND PRIORITIES Third country solutions for refugees are expanded so that by the end of 2028, 3 million refugees benefit from effective protection and solutions through resettlement (1 million) in 50 resettlement countries and complementary pathways (2 million).1.

million refugees in need of resettlement in 2018, only 55,680 were actually resettled. Complementary pathways are safe and regulated avenues for refugees that complement resettlement by providing lawful stay in a third country where their international protection needs are met. Complementary pathways can expand

Nov 14, 2019 UNSWs Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law today released a new Policy Brief, Safe Journeys and Sound Policy: Expanding protected entry for refugees, which takes an in-depth look at one form of complementary pathways: protected entry.

Complementary Pathways envisaged in the Global Compact on Refugees. The strategy sets a 10-year goal to resettle one million refugees and admit two million refugees through complementary pathways by 2028. 2020 challenged refugee protection and the search for solutions, including progress towards these aims. While conflict and persecution ...

Good practice: Protected entry a safe alternative pathway; Individuals and their communities in receiving countries: sponsor a family through community sponsorship. Community sponsorship allows groups of individuals to directly support refugees and other persons in need of international protection admitted under resettlement or ...

Last update: March 2021. What is protected entry? Protected entry procedures are visa pathways that authorise asylum seekers to safely cross international borders for the purpose of accessing protection under international refugee or human rights law.

Aug 4, 2020 Traditional solutions for refugee protection and integrationrepatriation, local integration, and resettlementhave become difficult, and countries in Europe are exploring other means of providing protection through what are known as complementary pathways.

Nov 30, 2023 Overview. This entry considers two principal scenarios for resettlement: (1) Resettlement from the country of emergency where a programme already exists or is being considered as a protection response to the emergency, and (2) resettlement from a neighboring country hosting individuals forcibly displaced by the emergency.

Learn about EU refugee resettlement schemes. Resettlement means the admission of non-EU nationals in need of international protection from a non-EU country to which they have been displaced to an EU country where they are granted protection.

Mar 4, 2022 Safe zones : A protective alternative to flight or a tool of refugee containment? Clarifying the international legal framework governing access to refugee protection against the backdrop of safe zones in conflict-affected contexts. International Review of the Red Cross (2022), 104 (919), 14551475. Selected Articles. Safe zones: A.

Sep 13, 2021 Who will be eligible? The ACRS will be focused on eligible individuals affected by events in Afghanistan. Eligible people will be prioritised for resettlement through three referral pathways:

Last update: May 2022 . Labour mobility schemes for displaced people (including refugees) can provide an additional and complementary way to safely enter or stay in another country, through regularised access to employment. What are labour mobility schemes? Factsheet.

2. Explore complementary pathways to protection UNHCR recognises that resettlement and refugee family reunion will not meet the needs of everyone in need of protection and encourages States to explore a range of other routes, referred to as complementary pathways whereby refugees are permitted to enter and settle in a country and have

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Factsheet Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law COMPLEMENTARY REFUGEE PATHWAYS: PROTECTED ENTRY SCHEMES Last update: September 2020 Special visa pathways can offer asylum seekers abroad protection and safe passage, removing the need for dangerous journeys, disrupting people-smuggling operations, and

2.3 How do regional protection arrangements work? 6 3 Legal issues raised by regional refugee protection arrangements 6 3.1 Non-refoulement and other substantive standards 7 3.2 Procedural standards 7 3.3 Standards of treatment 7 4 State practice on regional cooperation for refugee protection 8 4.1 Asia-Pacific 8 4.1.1 Comprehensive Plan of ...

vulnerable refugees as the preferred candidates for resettlement. Resettlement in solidarity schemes have been implemented in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay so far. Moreover, the regional focus has been expanded to allow for the protection of extra-continental refugees, mainly Palestinians and Syrians.