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Reestablishment support

If you are returning to a country or part of a country where it will be particularly difficult to rebuild a professional and family life, you have the option to apply for a certain sum of money — reestablishment support — to help you do this.

Conditions for receiving reestablishment support


You may receive support if
  • your application for asylum was rejected or If you withdrew your application for asylum in Sweden
  • you plan to return voluntarily and the country, or part of a country, to which you will return offers limited opportunities for you to establish yourself due to difficult conditions.
  • it appears likely that you will be accepted by the country to which you wish to return.

If you know that your country of origin is one of the countries that will currently enable you to claim support, then you may approach your Reception Officer.

Family members may receive reestablishment support


Your family members may also receive support — husband/wife, common-law spouse and children under 18, for example. However, it is conditional upon them living in Sweden. Other relatives living in the same household as you may also receive reestablishment support.
 

Support may be applied for following rejection or withdrawal of an application


You can apply for support when your asylum application has been rejected or when you have withdrawn your application for asylum.

Your application for reestablishment support must be submitted to the Migration Board at the latest two months after notification of rejection is received. You may submit your application for support to your Reception Officer and the Migration Board will then decide whether or not you are to receive support.

Payment is made once you have returned


In most countries where reestablishment support is available, the Migration Board works with International Organisation for Migration (IOM), which will pay the money to you once you have returned to your country of origin. You will be given a telephone number for the IOM office and the earliest date on which you may contact them.
 
Payment is made in US dollars in one lump sum. You must produce your travel documents and a copy of the document verifying that you have been granted reestablishment support. Note that IOM will make the payment at the latest three months after you have returned to your country of origin. IOM is not represented in a few of the countries where returnees may be eligible for reestablishment support. In such cases, payment is usually made prior to departure from Sweden.

Maximum SEK 75,000 per family


The reestablishment support is
  • SEK 30,000 for each adult over the age of 18 and  
  • SEK 15,000 for children under the age of 18, up to a maximum of SEK 75,000 per family.

Providing false information may require repayment


The Migration Board will determine whether the support is to be repaid, either in full or in part, if:
  • you deliberately provided false information or in any other way caused the support to be paid out erroneously, for example by withholding information from the Board
  • you do not return voluntarily or  
  • after returning, you re-enter Sweden illegally.

The decision on reestablishment support cannot be appealed


There is no right of appeal against decisions on reestablishment support in accordance with the regulation (2008:778) regarding reestablishment support for certain foreigners. This applies both to the decision on whether or not you should receive support and the decision on a repayment obligation.
 
* IOM (International Organisation for Migration) — an intergovernmental organisation which was founded in 1951. It works with migrants, governments, NGOs and international organisations.

Which countries are eligible for support?


At the moment, the Migration Board considers that persons returning to the following countries (or parts of countries) are eligible to receive support:
 
Afghanistan, Angola (persons coming from Cabinda), Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, the Ivory Coast, Kosovo — ethnic Albanians from northern Kosovo (northern Mitrovica, Leposavic, Zubin Potok, Zvecan) and Strptce as well as ethnic Serbs who come from areas in northern Kosovo other than those just named as well as other minorities, Kyrgyzstan (persons coming from Jalalabad and Osh), Liberia, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Russia - Dagestan, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Somalia/Somaliland, stateless persons from Gaza and the West Bank, Sudan, Togo, Uganda and Yemen.
Sidan senast uppdaterad: 2011-02-25