Free movement of persons, asylum and immigration

• Controlling the EU external maritime borders and saving immigrants’ lives in operations at sea
• Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF)
• International protection – emergency help for Italy and Greece
• Immigration - the EU response
• Monitoring scheme for the EU’s border-free area
• The protection of children in migration

• Free movement of European citizens within the Union
  • Simplifying the circulation of certain public documents within the EU
  • The Schengen area and cooperation
  • EU freedom of movement and residence
  • Rules on crossing EU borders
  • Strengthening the Schengen area
• Schengen information system II
  • Second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) – former 3rd pillar decision
  • Second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) – former 1st pillar regulation
  • Access of vehicle registration services to SIS II
• Penetrating external borders
  • Local border traffic at external land borders
  • European Border and Coast Guard
  • Standing Committee on operational cooperation on internal security
  • Obligation of air carriers to communicate passenger data
  • European border surveillance system (Eurosur)
• Visas
  • Visa policy
    • Visa Code
    • Uniform format for visas issued to non-EU nationals
    • Facilitated Transit Document (FTD) and Facilitated Rail Transit Document (FRTD)
  • Information system on visas
    • Rules for access to the EU’s Visa Information System (VIS)
    • VIS Regulation
    • Establishment of the Visa Information System (VIS) – Stage 1
    • Smart borders: EU Entry/Exit System
  • Consular cooperation and document fraud
    • Exchange of information to combat counterfeit travel documents
    • Combating document fraud: FADO image-archiving system
    • Detecting forged documents
    • Integration of biometric features in passports and travel documents
• Asylum
  • Eurodac: European system for the comparison of fingerprints of asylum applicants
  • European asylum system
    • European Asylum Support Office
  • Minimal harmonisation of national legislation
    • Temporary protection if there is a mass influx of displaced people
    • Minimum guarantees for asylum procedures
    • European Union asylum procedures
    • Living conditions for asylum seekers – EU rules
  • Cooperation and coordination of asylum systems
    • EU asylum policy: EU country responsible for examining applications
    • EP resolution on the situation of unaccompanied minors in the EU
    • Refugees and stateless persons — common standards for qualification
• Immigration and rights of nationals of non-EU countries
  • Immigration policy
    • Integrating non-EU nationals
  • Entry and residence
    • Non-EU nationals — rules for long-term residence
    • EU format for residence permits
    • Employment as seasonal workers
    • Residence permit for victims of human trafficking
    • EU Blue Card — entry and residence of highly qualified workers
    • Non-EU workers - easier residence and work formalities
    • Family reunification
    • Residence for non-EU nationals involved in research training
    • Smart borders: EU Entry/Exit System
  • Illegal immigration
    • Smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air — UN protocol
    • Financial penalties on carriers
    • Defining the facilitation of illegal immigration
    • Illegal immigration – penalties for employers
    • Immigration liaison officers’ network
    • Penal framework for preventing the facilitation of illegal immigration
  • Return and expulsion
    • Return of illegal immigrants to their countries: joint flights
    • Expulsion decisions — mutual recognition by EU countries
    • Returning illegal immigrants — common standards and procedures
  • Information and cooperation
    • Mutual information mechanism for national asylum and immigration measures
    • The European Migration Network
• Relations with non-EU countries
  • Migration and development
  • Facility for Refugees in Turkey
  • External borders and visas
    • Facilitating the issuance of short-stay visas with Russia
    • Financial support for EU’s external borders and the common visa policy: Internal Security Fund
    • Smart borders: EU Entry/Exit System
  • Return and readmission
    • Readmission agreements with Macao and Hong Kong
    • Readmission agreements with Eastern European countries
    • Agreement on readmission with Russia
    • Readmission agreement with Sri Lanka
    • Agreement with Pakistan on readmission
    • EU - Turkey agreement on the readmission of persons residing without authorisation