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Question· writtenPQ 375asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 July 2011
396 Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline details on a contract (details supplied) in County Laois; if there are plans to renew or not to renew this contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Bill· HRH.R. 2583 (112th)open
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 2011
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2012 - Authorizes FY2012 appropriations for: (1) the Department of State (Department) for the administration of foreign affairs, (2) international organizations, (3) international peacekeeping, (4) international commissions, (5) migration and refugee assistance, and (6) the National Endowment for Democracy. Revises provisions regarding local guard and protective service contracts in high risk areas abroad. Expresses the sense of Congress regarding: (1) Israel; (2) microenterprise programs and development; (3) boundary, water, and fisheries commissions; (4) the Arab League boycott of Israel; (5) religious freedom in Vietnam; (6) Eritrea's support for armed insurgents in Somalia; (7) religious minorities in Egypt; (8) Sudan and South Sudan; (9) European Union (EU) arms exports to China; and (10) the Peace Corps. Extends passport surcharge authority. Authorizes the Secretary of State to establish a Tibet Section within the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, until such time as a U.S. consulate in Tibet is established. Revises Foreign Service member-related provisions. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) bilateral economic assistance; (2) the President, for operating expenses, the capital investment fund, and the Office of Inspector General of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); (3) the Millennium Challenge Corporation; (4) the Democracy Fund; and (5) international broadcasting. Prohibits U.S. economic or development assistance from being provided to a country that does not meet the corruption performance indicator of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Urges the President to transfer to the Treasury at least 50% of all assets from the liquidation of: (1) the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund and the Western Newly Independent States Enterprise Fund, (2) the Baltic-American Enterprise Fund, and (3) the South African Enterprise Development Fund. Prohibits funds from being made available for: (1) any foreign nongovernmental organization that promotes or performs abortions, with certain exceptions; (2) USAID's Office of Budget and Resource Management; and (3) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West. Authorizes the President to interdict imports into or exports from Iran with respect to materials, equipment, or technology for nuclear, biological, chemical, missile, or conventional arms programs. Supports the reunification of Cyprus. Limits assistance to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Calls on Turkey to grant the Ecumenical Patriarchate international recognition and ecclesiastic succession. Security Assistance Act of 2011 - Provides funding for: (1) the foreign military financing program, (2) Israel, (3) Iraq, and (4) international military education and training. Increases the aggregate value of excess defense articles that may be transferred in a fiscal year. Authorizes the Secretary to establish the Global Security Contingency Fund to provide assistance to strengthen a foreign country's national and regional security interests consistent with U.S. foreign policy interests. Limits international education and training assistance to Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Somalia, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Zimbabwe. Increases specified congressional notification thresholds for specified foreign military sales and defense equipment. Makes it an unlawful act to knowingly violate military sales agent or arms export/import provisions under the Arms Export Control Act. Sets forth criminal penalty provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance to Israel for the Iron Dome Air Defense Missile System. Conditions security assistance to: (1) Egypt, (2) Lebanon, (3) the Palestinian Authority (PA), and (4) Yemen. Revises: (1) conditions for the provision of assistance to Pakistan, and (2) Pakistan assistance strategy report requirements. Requires that such report be provided to Congress for each of FY2012-FY2014. Directs the Secretary to fully cooperate with audits and information requests from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR). Authorizes peacekeeping assistance to be used: (1) to enhance the capacity of foreign civilian security forces, including gendarmes, to participate in peacekeeping operations; and (2) for programs to disarm and reintegrate former members of foreign terrorist organizations into civilian society. Authorizes appropriations for international peacekeeping activities in Somalia and for a U.S. contribution to the Multinational Force Observers Mission in the Sinai.
Question· writtenPQ 303asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2011
312 Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the decisions archive of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal is only accessible by legal representatives and not academics and independent researchers despite the fact that such decisions are redacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 28asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 July 2011
32 Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made to date on addressing concerns regarding the care of unaccompanied minors claiming asylum; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· Schriftliche Anfrage9179/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 11 July 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Peter Pilz, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Inneres betreffend Reisen des "Botschafters" <i>(Exil-Tschetschene mit Asylstatus)</i> von Kadyrow <i>(Präsident von Tschetschenien)</i>
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage9160/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 11 July 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Judith Schwentner, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Inneres betreffend die Gewährung von Asyl an den per internationalem Haftbefehl gesuchten ehemaligen guatemaltekischen Polizeifunktionär Javier Estanislao Figueroa Diaz und seiner Familie im Jahr 2008 in Österreich
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage9112/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 8 July 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Harald Vilimsky, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Inneres betreffend fremde Tatverdächtige mit dem Aufenthaltsstatus Asylwerber
Resolution· Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag689/UEAunselbständiger entschließungsantrag
Austria · National Council · 7 July 2011
Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag der Abgeordneten Mag. Alev Korun, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Einbringung einer Regierungsvorlage für ein Verbot der Schubhaft für Minderjährige und ein generelles Bleiberecht für integrierte und unbescholtene Drittstaatsangehörige, die sich seit mindestens fünf Jahren im Bundesgebiet aufhalten
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage8996/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 7 July 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Ing. Christian Höbart, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Justiz betreffend Inhaftierung straffälliger Asylwerber
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage8997/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 7 July 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Ing. Christian Höbart, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Inneres betreffend Rückführungsprogramm für Asylanten
Resolution· Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag690/UEAunselbständiger entschließungsantrag
Austria · National Council · 7 July 2011
Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag der Abgeordneten Mag. Alev Korun, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Einbringung von Regierungsvorlagen für ein Verbot der Schubhaft von Minderjährigen und ein humanitäres Bleiberecht für gut integrierte Familien sowie zur Aufnahme der UN-Kinderrechtskonvention in die Bundesverfassung
Question· writtenPQ 212asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 July 2011
213 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the residency status and procedures in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Bill· HRH.R. 2457 (112th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 July 2011
Palestinian Accountability Act - Prohibits any U.S. government document from referring to the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority (PA) as Palestine until the Secretary of State certifies to Congress that the PA: (1) does not inappropriately influence elections in PA-contolled areas; (2) is promoting human rights and ending government corruption; (3) has taken steps to dismantle terrorist infrastructures and arrest terrorists, control Palestinian security organizations, and end the incitement to violence and hatred in the Palestinian media, educational institutions, and mosques; (4) has ceased to participate in any boycott of Israel; (5) works with Israel to implement the Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict of 2003 (the Roadmap to Peace); (6) recognizes Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state; and (7) has excluded Hamas from participating in a unity government or has required Hamas to publicly support such requirements. Prohibits certain Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 funds from being made available to the PA unless: (1) a U.S. nongovernmental or private entity audits the PA budget and the Secretary submits the audit to Congress, and (2) the Secretary certifies to Congress that the PA meets specified requirements. Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended for U.S. contributions to the United Nations (U.N.) if the U.N. or any U.N. entity recognizes statehood for the Palestinian territories unless the Secretary certifies to Congress that the PA meets specified requirements. Prohibits funds from from being obligated or expended for U.S. contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) unless: (1) a U.S. nongovernmental or private entity audits the UNRWA budget and the Secretary submits the audit to Congress, and (2) the Secretary certifies to Congress that UNRWA meets specified requirements.
Record· Brief regering2011Z15245concluded
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 7 July 2011
Bereikte resultaten in de aanpak van fraude in asiel- en nareisbeleid door Somalische asielzoekers
Record· Brief regering2011Z15256concluded
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 7 July 2011
Procesbeschrijving van de opvang van alleenstaande minderjarige vreemdelingen (amv’s)
Question· Schriftliche Anfrage8963/Jschriftliche anfrage
Austria · National Council · 6 July 2011
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Ing. Peter Westenthaler, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Inneres betreffend untergetauchte Asylwerber
Resolution· Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag671/UEAunselbständiger entschließungsantrag
Austria · National Council · 6 July 2011
Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag der Abgeordneten Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen, Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel, Mag. Christine Muttonen, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend die humanitäre Situation in Syrien, die Lage der syrischen Flüchtlinge und den Schutz von Mitgliedern religiöser Minderheiten
Question· writtenPQ 480asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 July 2011
501 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 478asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 July 2011
499 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which investigations into the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin have progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 467asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 July 2011
488 Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to close a centre (details supplied) in County Laois; the date of the closure; the contractual arrangements with the company currently running this centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 451asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 July 2011
472 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if medical information might be sought in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; if he will review this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 448asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 July 2011
468 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected status in respect of residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 444asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 July 2011
464 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the determination of residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 443asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 July 2011
463 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will indicate the position regarding residency or citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 441asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 July 2011
461 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in the determination of residency or citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 440asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 July 2011
460 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for citizenship or residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Record· EU-Vorlage17/6407open
Germany · German Bundestag · 4 July 2011
Question· Schriftliche Frage17/6387open
Germany · German Bundestag · 1 July 2011
Originaltext der Frage(n):<br />
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Was kann die Bundesregierung über den Verbleib der Daten sagen, die die Deutsche Rentenversicherung im Zusammenhang mit der Erfassung von Rentenanwartschaften nach dem Fremdrentengesetz für DDR-Altübersiedler und -Flüchtlinge angelegt hatte, deren Renten aber inzwischen nach dem Rentenüberleitungsgesetz bzw. dem Sechsten Buch (Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB VI) berechnet werden?
Question· Schriftliche Frage17/6387open
Germany · German Bundestag · 1 July 2011
Originaltext der Frage(n):<br />
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Hat die Bundesregierung Kenntnis davon, dass Anhörungen nach dem Asylverfahrensgesetz zu den Verfolgungs- und Fluchtgründen vor dem Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF) in der Außenstelle des BAMF in Oldenburg per Videokonferenz mit den in der Aufnahmeeinrichtung des Landes Niedersachsen in Friedland befindlichen Antragstellern und Dolmetschern durchgeführt werden?<br />
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Werden Anhörungen per Videokonferenz auch in weiteren Außenstellen des BAMF praktiziert?<br />
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Wie beurteilt die Bundesregierung diese Praxis, insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund, dass in Anhörungen zu den Verfolgungsgründen oftmals sensible Sachverhalte vorgetragen werden, die es notwendig machen, dass eine Anhörung abgebrochen werden muss und sog. Sonderbeauftragte des BAMF, etwa für Traumatisierte, für geschlechtsspezifisch Verfolgte sowie für unbegleitete minderjährige Flüchtlinge hinzugezogen werden müssen?
Question· writtenPQ 174asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 June 2011
185 Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for family re-unification in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 172asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 June 2011
183 Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the date the independent chair of the Magdalene Laundries inter-Departmental Committee will be appointed; will the terms of reference of the Committees’ investigation include access to relevant Government Departments records including his Deparment who approved on a Statutory basis the use of St. Mary Magdalene’s Asylum, Lower Sean McDermott Street, Dublin 1 as a remand institution.
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Bill· SS. 1301 (112th)open
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 2011
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2011 - Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to require each Department of State regional bureau to annually submit a list of goals for combating trafficking in persons (trafficking) for each country in its geographic area of responsibility. Authorizes the Secretary of State to appoint anti-trafficking officers at U.S. embassies who shall: (1) collaborate with other countries to eliminate human trafficking, (2) enhance Department of State anti-trafficking efforts, (3) monitor regional trafficking trends, and (4) assist U.S. embassies to prepare the annual Trafficking in Persons Reports. Directs the President to establish programs with foreign governments and civil society to enhance anti-trafficking capacity. Authorizes the Secretary of State, through the Ambassador-at-Large of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, to: (1) establish a fund to assist foreign governments in meeting urgent needs in trafficking prevention, victim protection, and prosecution of trafficking offenders; and (2) provide assistance for each country with a high prevalence of trafficking that enters into a child protection compact with the United States. Amends the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to require that a video about U.S. legal rights and resources be developed and shown in embassies and consulates with the greatest concentrations of aliens applying for employment- or education-based nonimmigrant visas. Amends the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to include labor contract fraud under the scope of such Act. Amends the federal criminal code to subject a U.S. citizen or permanent resident alien who resides overseas and engages in illicit sexual conduct, including sex trafficking, with a person under 18 years old to fine and/or imprisonment. Subjects a person to fine and/or imprisonment for the knowing destruction, concealment, removal, confiscation, or possession of certain immigration documents. Increases the statute of limitations to 10 years for a person to bring a civil action for an injury received while a minor that was caused by specified sexual- or forced labor-related violations of federal criminal law. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to: (1) make certain alien trafficking victims who had been in the United States to cooperate with law enforcement but because of serious threats fled the United States eligible for a nonimmigrant T visa (trafficking victims cooperating with law enforcement), and (2) make an alien who was the victim of foreign labor contracting fraud eligible for a nonimmigrant U visa (victims of certain crimes). Revises certain trafficking-related reporting requirements for the Attorney General (DOJ) and the Secretary of Labor. Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2005 to direct the Secretary of State to provide the Department of Labor with information relating to child labor and forced labor in the production of goods in violation of international standards. Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report to Congress regarding the use of foreign labor contractors. Authorizes the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs to make renewable one-year block grants to four eligible state or local government entities in different regions of the United States to combat sex trafficking of minors. Authorizes FY2012-FY2015 appropriations. Terminates the program four years after enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations through FY2015 for grants for local law enforcement investigations and prosecutions of trafficking and commercial sex act violations. Includes in the model state criminal provisions protections for persons under 18 years old who have been arrested for engaging in commercial sex acts. Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to authorize appropriations through FY2015 for: (1) the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center, (2) the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts To Combat Trafficking in Persons, (3) the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, (4) the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, (5) the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for trafficking victim assistance, (6) the Secretary of State to combat trafficking, (7) the Attorney General for trafficking victim assistance in the United States and for assistance to foreign countries to combat trafficking, (8) the President for foreign trafficking victims assistance and to foreign countries to meet minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, (9) the Secretary of Labor for trafficking victim assistance in the United States, (10) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for trafficking investigations, and (11) the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) for trafficking investigations by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 to authorize appropriations through FY2015 for studies and conferences addressing trafficking and sex trafficking in the United States. Amends INA to extend specified asylum and removal protections to aliens who are under the age of 18 as of a qualifying event. Amends the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to direct: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish specified child advocate programs at immigration detention sites for trafficking victims and vulnerable unaccompanied alien children; and (2) the Secretary of Homeland Security, with respect to individuals who reach the age of 18 and are transferred to DHS, to consider placement in the least restrictive setting available, including alternative detention programs. Makes a child granted U visa status eligible for certain assistance for refugee children. Directs GAO to: (1) conduct a study of the effectiveness of the HHS child advocate program, and (2) conduct a study of the effectiveness of DHS border screening of unaccompanied alien children to determine whether they are trafficking victims.
Question· writtenPQ 360asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 June 2011
389 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of the 109 asylum seekers asked by the Reception and Integration Agency to transfer from the Mosney direct provision centre in July 2010 have had a final decision made by him on their claims for asylum, subsidiary protection or leave to remain; the number of these asylum seekers granted their claims for protection; the number refused; the nationalities of the 109 asylum seekers; the number of the asylum seekers that have been deported; the number still living in direct provision and the number that have left direct provision but are still here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Question· writtenPQ 343asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 June 2011
372 Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons for a reduction of €2.5 million in the cost of the direct provision system in the first two months of 2011 referred to at page 11 of the First Progress Report of the Public Service Agreement 2010-2014; if this is a one off or recurrent saving; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Bill· HRH.R. 2404 (112th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2011
Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2011 - Amends the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize FY2012-FY2013 appropriations for: (1) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for grants to domestic treatment centers for the costs of services provided in the rehabilitation of victims of torture (including treatment of the physical and psychological effects of torture), social and legal services, and research and training of health care providers outside of treatment centers or programs; and (2) the President for grants to foreign treatment centers and programs for activities designed to treat victims for the physical and psychological effects of torture. Directs the Secretary of State to report to Congress annually regarding: (1) Foreign Service officer training about torture victims, and (2) the percentage and number of torture victims who are approved for refugee entry into the United States. Directs the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide support for indigenous foreign treatment centers and programs for torture victims in order to increase such centers' capacities to train other local health care providers. Authorizes FY2012-FY2013 appropriations.
Question· Mondelinge vragen2011Z14231concluded
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 28 June 2011
Het bericht ‘G4 wil dat rijk oplossing voor asielzoekers vindt’
Motion· Motie2011Z14345rejected
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 28 June 2011
Motie-Koolmees/Braakhuis over terugkeer van uitgeprocedeerde asielzoekers en illegalen
Question· writtenPQ 41asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 June 2011
41 Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the criticisms from the Irish Human Rights Commission that the human rights of prisoners, asylum seekers and former Magdalene women are being breached by the State.
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Question· writtenPQ 30asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 June 2011
28 Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the State’s asylum system in view of the criticism from the United Nations Committee Against Torture.
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Bill· SS. 1258 (112th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 2011
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2011 - Creates a lawful prospective immigrant status for a qualifying alien present in the United States, as well as for such alien's qualifying spouse and children who may be outside the United States. Provides for status adjustment to lawful permanent resident. Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2011 or the DREAM Act of 2011 - Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to cancel the removal of, and adjust to the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence on a conditional basis, an alien who: (1) entered the United States on or before his or her 15th birthday and has been present in the United States for five years preceding this Act's enactment; (2) is a person of good moral character; (3) is not inadmissible under specified grounds of the Immigration and Nationality Act; (4) has not participated in the persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion; (5) has not been convicted of certain offenses under federal or state law; (6) has been admitted to an institution of higher education (IHE) in the United States or has earned a high school diploma or general education development certificate in the United States; and (7) was age 35 or younger on the date of this Act's enactment. Provides for status adjustment to lawful permanent resident. Directs the Attorney General (DOJ) to stay the removal proceedings of an alien who meets certain requirements and who is at least five years of age and enrolled full-time in a primary or secondary school. Limits the eligibility of an alien in conditional permanent resident status for higher education assistance. Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to repeal the denial of an unlawful alien's eligibility for higher education benefits based on state residence unless a U.S. national is similarly eligible without regard to such state residence. Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act of 2011 or the AgJOBS Act of 2011 - Confers "blue card status" upon an alien who has fulfilled specified periods of agricultural employment in the United States, is otherwise admissible, and has not been convicted of specified crimes. Provides for adjustment to permanent resident status if the alien has fulfilled other specified periods of agricultural employment in the United States. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise H-2A visa (agricultural labor or temporary or seasonal services) provisions. Establishes the Commission on Agricultural Wage Standards under the H-2A program. Revises unlawful presence inadmissibility provisions, including family-unity based exceptions. Establishes in the Treasury: (1) the Department of Homeland Security Legalization Program Account, and (2) the Immigration Reform Penalty Account. Sets forth immigration-related worksite enforcement provisions, including provisions regarding: (1) unlawful employment of aliens, (2) document verification, (3) the employment verification system, and (4) responsibilities of the Social Security Administration (SSA). Permits the disclosure of certain taxpayer information to DHS. Requires the issuance of: (1) fraud-, tamper-, and wear-resistant Social Security cards; and (2) machine-readable, tamper-resistant employment authorization documents with biometric identifiers. Makes it an unfair immigration employment practice to discriminate based on national origin or citizenship status. Revises immigration-related activities of the SSA and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Authorizes appropriations for responsibilities under this Act for: (1) DHS, (2) SSA, (3) the DOJ, and (4) the Department of State. Prohibits the adjustment of an alien in lawful prospective immigrant status to the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence until specified border related enhancements in personnel and resources are established, funded, and operational. Provides for additional: (1) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel; (2) Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) personnel; (3) DHS personnel assigned to investigate alien smuggling; (4) immigration litigation attorneys; (5) ports of entry along the northern and southern borders; and (6) equipment and assets along the borders, including unmanned aerial systems, cameras, sensors, satellites, and radar coverage. Directs the Secretary of State to report annually regarding the exchange of North American immigration, law enforcement, and security information among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Provides for: (1) increased border-related cooperation with Mexico, and (2) expansion of Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism programs. Provides reimbursement for state and county prosecutors in border states for prosecuting federally initiated and referred drug cases. Authorizes border relief grants for tribal, state, or local law enforcement and related agencies in proximity to the border or in a designated High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. Establishes the Immigration and United States-Mexico Border Enforcement Commission. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to set out the scope of state and local immigration-related enforcement authority. Directs the Secretaries of Homeland Security, Interior, Agriculture, Defense, and Commerce to develop a border protection strategy. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a Border Communities Liaison Office in every Border Patrol sector on the southern or northern border. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) establish a visa exit tracking system, and (2) equip all U.S. ports of entry with the United States-Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology system (US-VISIT). Increases: (1) civil penalties for illegal entry; (2) fines and penalties for the reentry of previously removed aliens; and (3) penalties concerning stowaways, vessels, and aircraft. Revises voluntary departure provisions. Authorizes appropriations for the state criminal alien assistance program (SCAAP). Sets forth provisions regarding issuance of detainers by DHS personnel for aliens apprehended by state or local law enforcement officials for controlled substance violations. Revises passport, visa, and immigration fraud provisions. Directs: (1) the United States Sentencing Commission to promulgate or amend passport fraud sentencing guidelines, and (2) the Attorney General to develop immigration fraud prosecution guidelines. Expands the definition of conveyances subject to forfeiture for smuggling. Requires commercial vehicles transporting passengers from outside the United States to a U.S. airport or seaport to provide arrival/departure manifests. Authorizes DHS to share manifest and passenger name information with other government authorities, including foreign governments. Subjects an operator of a vessel or motor vehicle to fine and/or imprisonment for evading a federal checkpoint. Authorizes grants for Indian tribes adversely affected by illegal immigration. Authorizes Department of State and Foreign Service special agents to investigate: (1) illegal passport or visa issuance or use, (2) Department-related identity theft and document fraud, and (3) federal offenses committed in the special maritime and territorial jurisdictions (nonmilitary) of the United States. Makes inadmissible and deportable convicted alien: (1) sex offenders who fail to register, and (2) street gang members. Sets forth, with respect to immigration-related enforcement activities: (1) protections for vulnerable populations, (2) apprehension procedures of more than 10 people involving children, and (3) detention procedures for families with children. Requires the creation of secure alternatives to detention (excluding alien terrorists). Enumerates humane detention conditions, including conditions for children and vulnerable populations. Requires the appointment of a detention commission. Authorizes access to counsel for aliens in removal proceedings. Directs the Attorney General to establish a National Legal Orientation Support and Training Center to ensure quality and consistent implementation of group legal orientation programs nationwide. Sets forth protections for: (1) refugees, including designation of refugee groups; and (2) stateless persons in the United States, including mechanisms for regularizing status. Establishes in DHS a position of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Ombudsman. Eliminates the one-year time limit for filing an asylum claim. Establishes the Standing Commission on Foreign Workers, Labor Markets, and the National Interest to establish employment-based immigration policies that promote economic growth while minimizing job displacement, wage depression, and unauthorized employment in the United States. Revises family and employment based immigrant visa provisions. Recaptures unused FY1992-FY2007 visas. Increases immigration visas for: (1) sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, and (2) brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens. Provides a specified visa allocation for the unmarried sons and unmarried daughters of permanent resident aliens. Exempts certain aliens with extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics from numerical limits. Revises the definition of "immediate relative" to include the spouse and child of a lawful permanent resident. Establishes a status adjustment process for certain military family members. Redefines "child" to include a stepchild under 21 years old. Provides specified relief for orphans and widows/widowers. Authorizes the status adjustment of a fiance/fiancee or alien spouse and any minor children (K-visa) to conditional permanent resident status if such alien marries a petitioner within three months after U.S. admission. Exempts children of certain naturalized Filipino World War II veterans from worldwide or numerical immigrant limitations. Permits workers who are eligible for permanent resident status adjustment but for whom a visa number is unavailable to apply for adjustment. Uniting American Families Act of 2011 - Includes a "permanent partner" within the scope of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Defines a "permanent partner" as an individual 18 or older who: (1) is in a committed, intimate relationship with another individual 18 or older in which both individuals intend a lifelong commitment; (2) is financially interdependent with the other individual; (3) is not married to, or in a permanent partnership with, anyone other than the individual; (4) is unable to contract with the other individual a marriage cognizable under this Act; and (5) is not a first, second, or third degree blood relation of the other individual. Creating American Jobs Through Foreign Capital Investment Act - Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 to make the EB-5 visa (alien investor) regional center program permanent. Eliminates sunset provisions for: (1) the J-1 visa waiver (Conrad state 30/medical services in underserved areas) program, and (2) the special immigrant nonminister religious worker program. Extends the H-1C visa program providing nonimmigrant nurses in health professional shortage areas. Revises entry provisions for H-1B visa foreign medical graduates and provides for an increase under specified conditions in the annual per-state cap of 30 foreign doctors. Exempts from worldwide immigration numerical limitations alien physicians who have completed state waiver or exemption service requirements, including alien physicians who completed such service before the date of enactment of this Act. Includes nationals of Ireland coming to the United States under a treaty of commerce to perform specialty occupation services in the nonimmigrant E-3 visa category. Authorizes: (1) temporary workers (E, H, I, L O, or P visas) who have not violated their status to renew their same category visa from within the United States; and (2) alien spouses of nonimmigrant H-visa aliens to work in the United States. Gives an alien who ceases to be employed by his or her petitioning employer 60 days to leave the United States or apply for a change of status. Protect Our Workers from Exploitation and Retaliation Act or the POWER Act - Excludes from the definition of "immigrant" a nonimmigrant alien who files a petition for status if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that the alien: (1) has suffered abuse or harm as a result of having been a victim of criminal activity, (2) has suffered substantial abuse or harm related to specified labor or employment violations related to a workplace claim (workplace violation), (3) is a victim of specified criminal activity and would suffer extreme hardship upon removal, (4) has suffered a workplace violation and would suffer extreme hardship upon removal, (5) has been helpful to specified authorities investigating a workplace violation, or (6) is a material witness or is likely to be helpful in the investigation of a workplace claim and fears retaliatory activities by the employer. Sets forth provisions governing procedural requirements and protections in an enforcement action leading to a removal proceeding taken against an alien: (1) as a result of information provided to DHS in retaliation against an individual for exercising employment or other legal rights, (2) at a facility about which a workplace claim has been filed, or (3) who has filed a workplace claim or who is a material witness in any proceeding involving a workplace claim. Amends the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act to allow state leadership activity grants to be used to provide technical assistance to faith and community-based organizations. Directs the National Institute for Literacy to disseminate information regarding integrated English literacy, U.S. history, and civics education programs. Provides grants to states for integrated English literacy, U.S. history, and civics education programs. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide: (1) tax credits to teachers of English language learners, (2) tax deductions for the expenses of becoming certified as such teachers, and (3) tax credits for employers' expenses in making adult education and literacy services available to their employees. Requires the Commissioner for Education Research of the National Center for Education Research to establish a national research and development center for adult education and literacy. Establishes the Presidential Award for Business Leadership in Promoting United States Citizenship to be awarded to companies and other organizations that make extraordinary efforts in assisting their employees and members to learn English and increase their understanding of U.S. history and civics. Renames the Office of Citizenship of DHS as the Office of Citizenship and New Americans. Authorizes the Office to make grants to states and subgrants to local governments to assist them in integrating immigrants. Establishes the New Citizens Award program. Provides for the status adjustment to lawful permanent resident of certain: (1) Haitian orphans, and (2) Liberian nationals. Provides grants to state courts for programs to assist individuals with limited English proficiency to access and understand state court proceedings. Provides permanent resident status adjustment for a qualifying alien who was, on September 10, 2001, the spouse, child, or unmarried son or daughter of an alien who died as a direct result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist activity against the United States. Makes such provisions inapplicable to an alien who is inadmissible or deportable under criminal or security grounds, including September 11, 2001, terrorist activity. Directs the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to expand programming that prioritizes alternatives to emigration from countries with the highest rates of irregular migration to the United States. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State should review U.S. policy toward Latin America in order to strengthen hemispheric security through the reduction of poverty, expansion of equitable trade, and support for democratic institutions, citizen security, and the rule of law.
Record· Rondvraagpunt procedurevergadering2011Z13633concluded
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 22 June 2011
Gesprek met directeur Europees Asiel agentschap EASO
Question· writtenPQ 283asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 June 2011
300 Deputy Maureen O’Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider reviewing the entire treatment of asylum seekers here in order to protect their basic human rights.
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Question· writtenPQ 282asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 June 2011
299 Deputy Maureen O’Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the average percentage of asylum seekers receiving status is 27% across Europe and only 1% here.
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Question· writtenPQ 281asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 June 2011
298 Deputy Maureen O’Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason Ireland is not complying with an EU reception directive which provides for minimum conditions for asylum seekers, including the right to work after waiting for a year for a decision.
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Question· writtenPQ 280asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 June 2011
297 Deputy Maureen O’Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there are hundreds of asylum seekers still living in reception centres, up to ten years in some cases, waiting on decisions regarding their status.
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Question· Schriftelijke vragen2011Z13408concluded
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 21 June 2011
De gevaren voor Tibetaanse vluchtelingen in Nepal
Record· Brief regering2011Z13236concluded
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 20 June 2011
Terugkeer van Chinese asielzoekers
Question· Schriftelijke vragen2011Z13239concluded
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 20 June 2011
De berichten dat er geen sprake zou zijn geweest van gedwongen uitzetting van Iraanse asielzoeker die zelfmoord pleegde
Record· Brief regering2011Z13128concluded
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 17 June 2011
Antwoorden op vragen van de commissie over directe plaatsing van uitgenodigde vluchtelingen in gemeenten
Bill· HRH.R. 2235 (112th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 2011
Child Trafficking Victims Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to require live training of all DHS personnel who come into contact with unaccompanied alien children. Sets forth related protections for such children regarding: (1) prompt placement with the Office of Refugee Resettlement, (2) qualified resources at appropriate ports of entry, (3) confidentiality, and (4) access to counsel.