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On the occasion of our State Holiday 20th August on the commemoration held in Ministry of Interior Mr. Károly Kontrát, deputy minister of interior, parliamentary secretary of state has given acknowledgments. The followings were recognised by our colleagues:
Béla Hegyes – Public Service Merit Silver Grade
Dr. Orsolya Bogdán – ministerial diploma of recognition
Ágnes Treuerné Varga - ministerial diploma of recognition
Dr. Adrienn Sós – keepsake
János Rusz – keepsake
Ede Zsolt Soós – ministerial recognition
Gábor Megyeri – ministerial recognition
Andrea Varga – ministerial recognition
Zsombor Kaló – ministerial recognition
After the event in the Ministry General Director Dr. Zsuzsanna Végh has given further acknowledgements to the following of our colleagues for their extraordinary professional activity at the Office’ ceremony:
Diána Iglainé Balassa
Dr. Veronika Bagi
Gizella Koháriné Fehér
Bálint Zoltán Törő
Györgyi Veress
Imre Hajzer
Erika Kurucz
Rita Szűcs
Dr. Réka Fülöp
Sándorné Füri
Tiborné Váradi
Ildikó Mihály
Ágnes Horváth
Bernadett Tünde Várnagy
Gáborné Szögedi
József Szabó
Piroska Éva Fónyadné Szepesi
Ákos Csanálosi
Tibor Marik
Klára Benczéné Dobó
Csilla Szabó
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After the handover of the awards General Director congratulated to the colleagues in her toast and thanked the outstanding work made for the sake of the Office.
We hereby congratulate to the awarded ones and wish them further success in their work.
The conference on the „Changes in the management of the migration crisis in Europe and Hungary in 2016–2017”, jointly organized by the Immigration and Asylum Office and the Migration Department of the Hungarian Association of Police Sciences with support of the Hanns Seidel Foundation took place on 15–16 June 2017.
The head of Hanns Seidel Foundation’s representation in Hungary and the Deputy State Secretary for European and International Cooperation of the Ministry of Interior of Hungary delivered the opening speeches. The Centre for Strategic and Defense Studies of the National University of Public Service, the Migration Research Institute, the National Police Headquarters, as well as the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) contributed to the event with presentations. Besides, we had the honour to host experts from the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Bulgaria, the General Inspectorate for Immigration of Romania and the Ministry of Interior of Poland; the foreign delegates gave a valuable insight into the migration crisis management strategies of the respective countries.
Zsuzsanna Végh dr., General Director
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The lecturers evaluated the recent changes of the migration crisis from scientific and professional points of view, outlining the possible future trends and fields of cooperation. In the closing speech, dr. Zsuzsanna Végh, director general summed up the main conclusions of the two-day symposium, expressing her gratitude to all for the participation and active involvement.
22.06.2017
On the occasion of the International Children’s Day the Immigration and Asylum Office organized various programmes for children accommodated in the transit zones and the Vámosszabadi reception centre. Social workers of the facilities arranged playful activities (such as craft workshops, outdoor games), handed out gifts, candy to the little ones; at the end of the day the most skillful children were given competition certificates and prizes.
IAO, 02.06.2017
Between May 22nd and 26th 2017 the delegation of the Immigration and Asylum Office (IAO) led by the Director-General Zsuzsanna Végh paid an official visit to the Chinese Ministry of Public Security’s Bureau Of Exit and Entry Administration (BEEA), as well as to the Immigration Inspection Station of the Beijing International Airport (GSTII). There were bilateral talks regarding the activities of IAO and BEEA during the past year. Issues discussed included changes of alien and asylum legal framework and the applied document safety and border management technical solutions. Practical aspects of future cooperation between the IAO and BEEA on the management and expert level were also discussed.
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IAO, 02.06.2017
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The following pictures were taken in the Transit Zones in Röszke and in Tompa. We publish them for your kind information.
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Tompa Zone Röszke - outdoor family area
Transit Zone Röszke - outdoor family area (2)
Transit Zone Röszke - outdoor family area (3)
Community room
Dining room
Dining room (2)
Physician's office
Sanitatiton container
Playing room
Dormitory (family)
Playing room
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02.05.2017
Tompa, 6 April 2017, Thursday (MTI) – After the previous 50-50 places, now not less than 250-250 people can be accommodated in the transit zones of Röszke and Tompa, where all the asylum-seekers can await the decision on their asylum request. The Tompa facility was officially presented to Sándor Pintér Minister of Interior by József Seres, head of Southern Great Plain Directorate of Immigration and Asylum Office.
József Seres highlighted that as of 28 March applicants may submit the asylum request only in the transit zones. The police first check their clothes and luggage upon arrival from Serbia to make sure they do not possess gun or other possible harmful object to the life. Then a photograph and fingerprints are taken by asylum authority staff. These data are entered into the EU database, and come under scrutiny whether the applicant had previously submitted a claim in another Member State – as told by the director.
Personal interviews are held in a separate room, everyone is interrogated in their mother tongue or the language they daily use, asylum specialists are assisted by interpreters on a closed-circuit video system – reminded József Seres.
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Applicants shall await the ruling of the asylum authority in the transit zone and may lodge a motion for review to the court. Hearing by the judge can be performed through the closed-circuit video system, though procedure on site is also possible.
Free legal aid is available for foreigners of the transit zone, and lawyer is appointed upon request; guardian is appointed for unaccompanied minors. If there are some doubts regarding the age of an applicant, primary tests are conducted by medical officers of the Hungarian Defense Forces serving in the transit zone; in controversial cases forensic experts are brought in to make the decision – explained the director. He added that unaccompanied children below the age of 14 are automatically taken into care in Hungary, while unaccompanied minors over the age of 14 must stay in the transit zone.
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Families, single men and unaccompanied minors are housed in different sectors of the transit zone. Applicants are accommodated in containers of five. Adults receive meals three, children five times a day in line with the religious rules – said the director.
József Seres also emphasized that playing room, open-air playground and ecumenical place of worship is built in the facility. The foreigners placed in the transit zone are supplied with sanitary products, bedclothes and social workers can be found in each sector of the transit zone.
Based on the invitation of the Hungarian Immigration and Asylum Office (IAO), leaders of V4 Group Services dealing with migration and asylum held a meeting in Budapest on 29-30th March 2017. In this context they confirmed that further development of their cooperation, continuous information exchange, sharing their practices and experiences, and the coordinated task performance concerning particular agencies of the European Union, especially the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) are essential to overcome the present migration crisis and to enforce regional interests. On the margin of this meeting a workshop was organised for experts based on V4 interior ministers common statement on 21 November 2016 to create the Migration Crisis Management Mechanism.
The participants of the conference visited the Transit Zone in Röszke, where they were informed in detail about the Amendment of Certain Acts Relating to Strengthening the Procedure Conducted in Border Surveillance Areas (Act XX of 2017) entering into force on 28 March 2017, and they surveyed how the new procedure order is implemented.
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Leaders and experts participated in the conference spoke of the measures Hungary has adopted to restrain illegal migration in high terms emphasizing that these measures serve the interest of Schengen states. The professional gremium declared that the new regulations and their implementation are in harmony with the aims of the European Union and with the measures of numerous Member States to suppress mass migration.
The host of the upcoming meeting of the leaders of V4 immigration services will be Poland in early summer.
IAO
05.04.2017
On the Office celebration of the 1848-49 Revolution and War of Independence Dr. Zsuzsanna Végh presented rewards on behalf of Mr. Sándor Pintér Minister of Interior.
On the occasion of March 15th the following staff members of the Office were rewarded with ministerial acknowledgment for their outstanding professional achievements:
Dr. Kutas Boglárka Réka – Civil Service Honors gold grade
Dr. Kun Natália Viktória - Civil Service Honors bronze grade
Dr. Szilágyi-Bali Zsófia - souvenir
Sárközi Mihály – souvenir
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After having presented the rewards, the Director General congratulated the colleagues, proposed a toast and thanked them their outstanding work they have done for the Office with exactitude and sometimes putting the work before their families.
We hereby congratulate the rewarded colleagues wishing them success in their future work
24.03.2017.
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01.03.2017
“The number of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in Hungary decreased last year, but we cannot uphold the illusion that the problems will be solved”, Director General of the Immigration and Asylum Office Zsuzsanna Végh said at a press conference in Budapest.
“29,432 people were registered as asylum seekers and 18,236 as illegal migrants”, Ms. Végh said, adding: “More than 400 thousand illegal migrants arrived in the country in 2015 and 177 people submitted requests for asylum”. “The EU-Turkey agreement concluded in the spring led to a reduction in the rate of arrival of migrants, but the agreement is a fragile one”, the Director General recalled.
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“Hotspots in Italy and Greece have also begun operations; 45 colleagues from the Office of Immigration were involved in work at the hotspots, although they have had to be recalled temporarily due to the worsening security situation”, Ms. Végh told reporters.
The Director General said it was important that the European Border and Coast Guard has been established, and that the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) had set out on the road to becoming and agency similar to Frontex. “The sphere of competence of the EASO is related to several issues that affect national sovereignty, and accordingly we cannot expect quick results”, she indicated.
“It looks like the European Union may be ‘waking from its Sleeping Beauty dream’ and has begun debating several European refugee systems”, she pointed out, adding that we should not sustain any illusions about the fact that the required legislation will be adopted this year. Acts of terrorism and the crimes committed by immigrants have forced Member States to concentrate more on security and become more cooperative than previously, she explained.
The number of illegal immigrants arriving in Europe fell significantly last year, to 500 thousand last year from 1.8 million in 2015, she indicated, adding that there was however no significant drop in the number of asylum requests, because Member States were only able to register those who arrived in 2015 last year.
For instance, in Germany there were 745 thousand applicants, whereas only 248 thousand immigrants arrived in 2016; the rest were still from the previous year. Hungary is in 7th place among the European Union’s member States with regard to the number of registered asylum seekers. Hungary is still fifth with regard to the number of asylum seekers per 1000 citizens, with a ratio of 2.93, although it was in first place in 2015. Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Iran continue to be the leading source countries in the EU as a whole, although the number of migrants arriving from Kosovo and Albania fell.
With regard to the situation in Hungary, Ms. Végh told reporters that while in 2015 over 400 thousand illegal immigrants arrived in the country and 177 thousand people submitted requests for asylum, the trend was reversed in 2016 and there were more asylum seekers than illegal immigrants.
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In addition to international developments, the measures introduced by the Hungarian Government, such as the reinforcement of external border security, the amendment of regulations on detaining refugees, or the establishment of the so-called 8-kilometre rule, also played an important part in reducing the numbers of asylum seekers, she highlighted.
With regard to the make-up of asylum seekers in Hungary, the majority are Afghans (11052), followed by Syrians (4979), Pakistanis (3,873), Iraqis (3452) and Iranians (1286). People from a total of 76 different countries submitted asylum requests last year, she added.
“The majority of asylum seekers have been exploiting the system for years when submitting their asylum requests, and move on to other countries without waiting for their asylum proceedings to be completed, and accordingly the Office is only able to process relatively few cases. 4675 requests for asylum were rejected last year and 432 applicants were afforded international protection”, the Director General highlighted.
With regard to action to stop illegal migration, she told reporters that the Office made 4580 decisions to expel illegal immigrants (generally with regard to asylum seekers who have had their requests for asylum rejected) and 3694 decisions to detain migrants. In common with the other Member States of the European Union, Hungary was also not successful with regard to repatriation; there were a total of 845 cases of deportation last year, primarily to Kosovo, Algeria, Pakistan, Iran and Morocco, she said, indicating that 64 citizens from 15 countries accepted assisted repatriation.
On the subject of transit zones, she told reporters that 9681 people had entered the transit zone sin 2016, of who 8771 were immediately transported on to receiving stations because they needed special care (children, families, the elderly, single mothers etc.). The majority of those who were taken to receiving stations left the country before the asylum requests were duly processed. The Office distributed 75 thousand food packages at the various transit zones; most of the packages were given to people waiting to enter the country.
The Director General stressed that more is being spent on caring for refugees each year; 6.7 billion forints last year, following 5.4 billion forints in 2015. The Office has receive the required funding for the performance of all additional duties; the projected budget of 8.7 billion forints ended up increasing to 16.3 billion forints by the end of the year.
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With regard to 2017, she said that the agreement with Turkey is fragile and if the 3 million people waiting in Turkey were to set off for Europe it would represent a significant danger, as too would the million who are fleeing poverty in Africa. “The EU must pay more attention to protecting its external borders and to supporting source countries”, she added.
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