BRATISLAVA, September 22, (WEBNOVINY) — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has helped 130 immigrants to return from Slovakia to their homeland. Within the program of assisted voluntary return, the organization arranged return of these people and the subsequent reintegration in their country. With IOM’s help, 130 immigrants returned to 23 countries worldwide, mostly to Vietnam, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Russia. Between January and August of this year 74 migrants made use of the possibility of assisted return home. In most cases they arrived in Slovakia from Ukraine, Vietnam, China, Russia and Turkey.
“Voluntary return is a reaction to the need of states to provide a possibility of human, organized and financially effective return and reintegration in the country of origin first of all to illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers and are part of the European return policy,” said the head of the IOM Office in Slovakia Zuzana Vatralova.
The core part of the program is an information campaign the role of which is to enable migrants who might be in need of the services of the program to learn about it and obtain relevant in-depth and objective information. Migrants can either consult at IOM headquarters or call, send an e-mail, or visit the IOM website.
IOM helped in 33 cases in 2010 when reintegration assistance was provided worth EUR 45,060 to individuals or whole families returning to Vietnam, Georgia, Serbia (including Kosovo), Moldova and Russia. In the first eight months of this year IOM in Slovakia provided reintegration assistance of EUR 24,594 in 18 cases to people returning to Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Serbia plus Kosovo and Moldova.
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