Policy catalogueNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe
Return policy uses a hybrid enforcement model: identification and removal detention where necessary, followed by restricted temporary status if removal remains temporarily impossible, with continued efforts to establish nationality and secure readmission.
A final return decision must be capable of practical execution. The state should therefore maintain identity-verification, detention, reporting and readmission mechanisms rather than allowing document destruction or non-cooperation automatically to produce permanent residence.
Implementation note
Current EU return law limits detention to the shortest appropriate period while removal arrangements are actively pursued and contains specific maximum periods and safeguards. The proposed hybrid model adopts the general sequence of detention followed by restricted status when immediate removal is impossible, while the exact duration would depend on the legal order ultimately adopted. Birthplace is useful evidence but does not by itself establish nationality or an unconditional duty of a country to readmit a person. Readmission depends on nationality law, evidence and applicable agreements. A genuinely stateless person is someone whom no state considers a national under the operation of its law. The proposed system therefore requires nationality determination rather than assuming statelessness can always be eliminated by assigning the person to the country of birth.
Remigration is the organized return of persons who lack or lose a lawful basis to remain, combined with voluntary-return policy, strict enforcement of residence conditions and review of status obtained through fraud or qualifying irregularity.
The state may fund modest one-time return assistance where a non-citizen voluntarily and permanently returns to the country of nationality or another country entitled to admit that person.
Serious non-citizen offenders are removed after the criminal process and permanently excluded; ordinary immigration violations normally attract a ten-year re-entry ban.
Asylum is protection from genuine persecution or serious danger, not a general mechanism for choosing a preferred country of settlement.
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