ASSISTED VOLUNTARY RETURNS

The RMC worked in partnership with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in assisting service users with queries regarding Voluntary Return programmes faciliated by IOM for 6 years until July 2010.

AVRIM (Assisted Voluntary Return for Irregular Migrants) helps people who have been trafficked or smuggled into the UK as well as people who may have overstayed on visas.

VARRP (Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programe) helps asylum seekers, who are either in the process of seeking asylum in the UK or have had their claim refused.

Both thse programmes help returnees to obtain the necessary travel documentation for a return journey, and where necessary, the costs of flights and further transport are covered.

VARRP offers Reintegration Assistance to help returnees in the process of re-establishing their lives when they return, through small business set up, vocational training or further education.


Assisted Voluntary Return for Families and Children – AVRFC

Under this programme IOM offers assistance to non-EEA* families and children (under 18) who want to return permanently to their countries of origin – whether they have ever claimed asylum or have not.
IOM will make all arrangements and pay travel costs for one parent and any number of their own children to return, with a £500 relocation grant per person given in cash at a UK airport. After their arrival in their home country each member of the family will receive a package of Reintegration Assistance. (A second parent will travel under either the VARRP or AVRIM voluntary return programmes).
Unaccompanied Minors (asylum seekers or irregular migrants) can also benefit, individually, under the AVRFC programme. (More...)

*[EEA = Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK, plus Switzerland]

For further information or inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the RMC.

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