After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the Secretary of State asked her services to study how to facilitate voluntary return. Fedasil’s voluntary returns service has noted growing interest from Syrians to return.
“The first departures are planned for tomorrow, January 16. 24 people interested in a voluntary return to Syria have been registered. The majority are single men, but there are also single women and a family with children,” detailed Nicole de Moor. It is also possible that people with a pending or recognized asylum application return without informing the authorities.
This increased interest, however, is not a widespread phenomenon. According to the Secretary of State, a recent European investigation showed, for example, that no application for return to Syria has yet been submitted in France. And it is likely that few Syrians have also left another European country.
-In the meantime, the General Commission for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRA) no longer processes the files of Syrian asylum seekers. According to the Secretary of State, he does not yet have sufficient information to assess the security situation in Syria and the risk of persecution.
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