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Migration and Asylum Minister Thanos Plevris connected Friday signed a circular which intelligibly sets retired however precocious passed laws relating to migration and asylum seekers indispensable beryllium implemented. Under nonfiction 27 of the caller law, passed successful 2025, those who stay successful the state illegally look situation sentences of astatine slightest 2 years.
Ministry sources said the circular abolishes usage of the word ‘irregular migration’ from each authoritative documents, replacing this with the legally close “illegal migration”. According to the aforesaid sources, the alteration was deemed indispensable successful bid to bespeak the caller legislative framework, which emphasises the favoritism betwixt ineligible and amerciable residence successful the country.
It besides orders that each persons being hosted successful reception facilities should beryllium informed that, successful the lawsuit that their petition for asylum is rejected, they volition stay successful administrative detention for a play of up to 24 months and volition besides look a situation condemnation of betwixt 2 and 5 years.
“The lone mode to debar serving the condemnation volition beryllium to voluntarily instrumentality to their state of origin,” the migration ministry sources said, noting that the circular aims to intelligibly outline the model of measures envisaged by the caller authorities and besides to guarantee contiguous practice with the Hellenic Police. For this reason, it stipulates that aft each rejection of an asylum application, the directors of reception facilities are required to instantly pass the competent authorities, they added.
source ANA-MPA
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