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Agreed Policy

Voluntary Return and Reintegration

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.

Position

Voluntary return is preferable to expensive coercive removal where it achieves the same lawful end promptly and reliably.

Policy

  • Pay reasonable travel costs for an approved voluntary-return programme.
  • Permit limited one-time relocation or reintegration assistance where it materially increases the likelihood of durable return.
  • Condition assistance on actual departure and compliance with the agreed return arrangement.
  • Do not create an entitlement to repeated return grants.
  • Where a re-entry ban applies, voluntary departure does not automatically erase it unless the law expressly provides otherwise.
  • Coordinate with destination-country authorities or recognized organizations where necessary to establish travel documents and reception.
  • Prefer voluntary departure before detention or forced removal where there is no serious absconding, criminal or security risk.

Implementation note

Implementation note

This entry is an implementation mechanism rather than a moral judgment about the person returning. Its purpose is to make return faster, cheaper and more orderly where cooperation is possible.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Return, Readmission, Identity and Removal Procedure

    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.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Remigration: General Principle

    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.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Criminal Deportation and Re-entry Bans

    Serious non-citizen offenders are removed after the criminal process and permanently excluded; ordinary immigration violations normally attract a ten-year re-entry ban.

  • DerivedForeign Policy and Defense

    Foreign Aid

    Foreign aid should be limited, accountable and focused on concrete humanitarian or developmental needs rather than ideological nation-building or permanent dependency.

Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.

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