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Caritas urges EU to let immigrants bring families


Caritas executive board meeting

Caritas executive board meeting

Caritas Europa has written an open letter requesting that the European Union allow migrant workers to bring their families with them.
 
At a meeting of the Caritas executive board in Brussels last week, they urged confederation ‘to guarantee respect for the right to family life for non-EU nationals and their families living in the EU’.

Board members, who include Caritas leaders from several European countries, Caritas Social Action Network and CAFOD, say they want a better implementation of the current EU directive on family reunification, a legislative act that will allow immigrants to bring their families to Europe.

This comes following their response to the European Commission’s Green Paper on the directive. The letter asks the EU ´to guarantee equal treatment and non-discrimination of non-EU nationals and their family members in the labour market, education and training... The EU should ensure their independent residence status for reunited family members as early as possible.'

The executive board is the governing body of 49 member organisations of the Caritas Europa network. They say the goal of the EU directive is to promote immigrants' family
life in the EU.

“We raised our concerns over current practices in some EU member states that prevent migrants and refugees from being reunited with their families,” said secretary general Jorge Nuño Mayer.

“We also believe the right to family life must be ensured and respected at EU level with regards to third country nationals,” he added.

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