2012
Does the law provides for legalizing the situation of illegal immigrants in order to ensure their right to work and access to social protection and care?
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Austria
There are several international obligations or other legal provisions which may be applied to irregular migrants.
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Bulgaria
No. Illegal migrants apply for asylum for legalising their stay in Bulgaria.
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Cyprus
No
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Denmark
No.
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Finland
No, such provision does not exist.
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France
A new circular on the criteria for legalizing of illegal immigrants situation was signed on November 28, 2012 and comes into force on December 3, 2012. It defines conditions for the legalization of illegal employees, families, spouses of foreigners, unaccompanied minors and young adults.
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Germany
No. In general, the German law does not provide for legalising the situation of irregular immigrants.
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Greece
No.
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Hungary
No.
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Ireland
There is no provision in Irish law for the legalisation of undocumented immigrants in order to ensure their right to work and access to social protection and care. However, there is anecdotal evidence that administrative and statutory procedures exist that allow undocumented migrants to apply to regularise their situation. –(ICI)
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Italy
No
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Poland
In 2012, the abolition made it possible, under specific conditions, to regularise the stay of foreigners who reside illegally in Poland.
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Portugal
No.
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Romania
In exceptional cases the law provides the right not to be return to certain categories of foreigners and gives them a very poor status of "tolerated person".
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Slovenia
Regularization of legal status in Slovenia is possible under a law which was adopted for people who have been unlawfully deprived of their legal status in 1992 after the independence of Slovenia (the so-called ‘erased people’) and for people who were de facto living in Slovenia since the independence onwards.
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Spain
Yes.
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Sweden
No.