Expulsion of Refused Asylum Seekers from Georgia

 

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The Human Rights and Civil Integration Committee of parliament of Georgia discusses the Bill on International Protection in an expedited manner. According to the bill expulsion of refused asylum seeker shall be admissible.

 According to one of the initiators of the Bill on International Protection, Guram Macharashvili the foreign citizen or a stateless person shall not be considered an asylum-seeker and shall not be subject to the non-expulsion principle as stipulated under the Law if his/her application for the commencement of the asylum procedures and repeated international protection has been declined under the individual administrative-legal act, parliament.ge reports. 

“The extradition of a hereof person to a foreign state or his/her expulsion from Georgia shall be admissible. The same regulations shall apply in case of the recall of the claim or the appeal by the asylum-seeker, appeal of the Court ruling on the hereof claim, and the re-appeal to the Court concerning the international protection”, - the reporter noted. 

The Bill stipulates that the foreign citizen or a stateless person shall be entitled to re-submit the application for international protection in case as well if the extension of his/her humanitarian status has been declined. The Bill also specifies the decision-making rule concerning the repeated application for international protection. The foreign citizen or a stateless person shall get through the interview if necessary. MPs expressed their positions and remarks.