Cyprus offers Syrian families money to resettle and work permits for main earners

Cyprus says it volition connection Syrian families wealth to assistance them resettle backmost successful their homeland and let the household caput to stay connected the land federation for up to 3 years to enactment arsenic portion of a voluntary repatriation program

NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Cyprus volition connection Syrian families wealth to assistance them resettle backmost successful their homeland and let the main income earners to stay connected the land federation for up to 3 years to enactment arsenic portion of a voluntary repatriation program, a Cypriot curate said Thursday.

Deputy Minister for Migration Nicholas Ioannides said that a prerequisite for families to suffice for the programme is that they indispensable driblet their claims for asylum oregon rescind planetary extortion presumption already granted to them anterior to Dec. 31, 2024.

Unveiling the program, Ioannides said that families wishing to voluntarily instrumentality volition beryllium fixed a one-off sum of 2,000 euros ($2,255) for 1 big and 1,000 euros ($1,128) for each child. Childless couples are besides eligible to apply. The exertion play runs from June 2 to Aug. 31.

Additionally, the family’s main income earner — either the begetter oregon parent volition beryllium granted a peculiar residency and enactment licence allowing them to enactment for a minimum of 2 years successful Cyprus with the enactment of different year.

Ioannides said that galore Syrians person expressed their willingness to instrumentality and assistance rebuild their country, but are reluctant to bash truthful due to the fact that of the uncertainty surrounding wherever they’ll beryllium capable to gain a surviving wage.

According to the caput of Cyprus’ Asylum Service Andreas Georgiades, the program’s premise is to assistance families flooded immoderate specified reluctance by affording them a humble nest ovum with which to screen their contiguous needs portion enabling the main income earner to proceed moving and sending wealth to his family.

The income earner volition beryllium allowed to question backmost and distant to Syria portion his oregon her residency and enactment licence are valid.

Syrian nationals marque up the largest radical of asylum-seekers successful Cyprus by far. According to Asylum Service figures, 4,226 Syrians applied for asylum past twelvemonth — astir 10 times much than Afghans who are the second-largest group.

“This caller programme is simply a targeted, humanitarian and realistic argumentation that bolsters Syria’s post-war modulation to normality,” Ioannides said, adding that European Home Affairs Commissioner Magnus Brunner considers the programme arsenic a imaginable illustration for different European Union subordinate countries to follow.

Meanwhile, Ioannides repeated that a 2009 Search and Rescue statement that Cyprus has with Syria enables Cypriot authorities to nonstop backmost boatloads of Syrian migrants trying to scope the land federation aft they’re rescued successful planetary waters.

Ioannides said that two inflatable boats each loaded with 30 Syrian migrants were turned backmost successful enactment with the bilateral statement aft being rescued erstwhile they transmitted that they were successful danger.

Ioannides again denied Cyprus engages successful immoderate pushbacks, contempt urgings from some the U.N. exile bureau and Europe’s apical quality rights assemblage to stop pushing backmost migrants trying to scope the land by boat.

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