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The so called Communitarian law issued October 23 2003 was approved of

We are actually talking of a national rule that assumes the instructions adopted by European Union and delegates the Government to carry them out within 18 months (April – May 2005).
We are referring to legislative decrees enacting two important executive EU instructions on migrant citizens. The first one is decree n. 2001/40/ce, assumed by the Council May 28th 2001, which concerns the reciprocal recognition of the decisions of repatriating non EU citizens. This is a way of perfectioning Schengen agreements and also of making all measures on dismissing foreigners and on prohibiting new entries in Schengen area even.

The second instruction n. 2003/9/ce was assumed by the Council January 27th 2003. This rule is particularly interesting because it holds a minimum EU ruling on asylum seekers first accomodation standards.
This instruction is particularly important because it provides for something extremely valuable in Italy.

Asylum seekers and the chance to work

Asylum seekers must wait for at least one year and a half before having the refugee status recognized (or just meeting the Commission), application forms are often lost at the ministry of interior affairs and it is extremely hard to find them.
This EU executive instruction introduces a very important piece of news. Asylum seekers are being recognized the right to regularly work after having waited for the status to be racognized for a maximum of a year time.
The fact that people could regularly work and earn their own means of survival after the first 45 days during which a minimum financial aid is granted seems obvious to common sense.
But the situation is different and everybody is aware of this.
We many times reported of thousands of asylum seekers whose condition is still not clear and are compelled to “civil death”. In fact they lost any financial aid (which are limited to a very short period of time within which the appointed commission should evaluate the case) and after the quoted 45 days asylum seekers often find conceiled and exploited work.

The instruction we are referring to introduces a minimum principle and leaves the states some freedom to rule the chance to work and it stops it for the first year of stay. Each state has the right to appoint the lenght of the non-working period before regularly working is allowed. Anyway this period cannot be over a year long.

The government can take 18 months the most to rule. Once this period expires without the government having ruled on such matter, the maximum one year period should be recognized and temporary residence papers allowing to workshould be released.

We shall refer of eventual news, we are anyway pleased to refer that one day within May 2005 asylum seekers will be allowed to regularly work after one year of stay.
Unfortunately they will still need to find a way of surviving after the 45 days of granted financial aid.