Migration to Azerbaijan on the rise: gov’t
The number of foreign migrants coming to Azerbaijan has been on the
increase in recent years, according to the head of the State
Migration Service.
Arzu Rahimov told an event dedicated to the International Migrants Day on Friday that the trend is due to the Azerbaijani economy being unaffected by the ongoing world economic crisis and foreign nationals’ appreciation of economic reforms being pursued in the fast-growing South Caucasus republic.
Rahimov said the Migration Service received over 40,000 applications in January-November 2009. The number of labor migrants has risen many-fold in comparison with 2,000 reported three years ago.
According to him, citizens of 130 countries are arriving in Azerbaijan. Most of the expatriates come from borderline countries including Georgia, Russia, Turkey, and Iran, as well as from the United States and Britain. Also, the number of incoming Azerbaijani citizens and ethnic Azerbaijanis has considerably increased in the past two years. Moreover, 100 people have applied for refugee status, with most of them being nationals of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Rauf Taghiyev, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security department head, said the government intends to apply a quota on labor migrants in 2010. He said the number of illegal aliens in the domestic labor market is twice the number of legal migrants, but the measures being taken will allow reducing the number of people working in Azerbaijan illegally.
According to the International Migration Organization, there are currently over 200 million migrants in the world.
Azerbaijan deported 598 foreigners in 2009, head of the Interior Ministry Department for Combating Illegal Migration Yashar Aghayev said. 329 of the deportees were citizens of Pakistan, 80 of China, 20 of Afghanistan, 26 of Iran, 41 of Turkey, 21 of Turkmenistan, 20 of Georgia, and 20 of Bangladesh, etc.
Aghayev said the committed violations mostly included overstaying visas, failure to reside in the place of registration and to obtain the required permits.
According to Aghayev, the number of deportees has dropped by 50 percent since last year, when 972 people were deported.
This year the number of illegal migrants decreased, he said, likely due to the introduction of the "single window" principle for registration.
According to the official, Azerbaijani citizens were mostly deported from Sweden, Norway, the U.S., the Netherlands and Germany. Fewer Azerbaijanis were deported this year than in the previous years.*
Arzu Rahimov told an event dedicated to the International Migrants Day on Friday that the trend is due to the Azerbaijani economy being unaffected by the ongoing world economic crisis and foreign nationals’ appreciation of economic reforms being pursued in the fast-growing South Caucasus republic.
Rahimov said the Migration Service received over 40,000 applications in January-November 2009. The number of labor migrants has risen many-fold in comparison with 2,000 reported three years ago.
According to him, citizens of 130 countries are arriving in Azerbaijan. Most of the expatriates come from borderline countries including Georgia, Russia, Turkey, and Iran, as well as from the United States and Britain. Also, the number of incoming Azerbaijani citizens and ethnic Azerbaijanis has considerably increased in the past two years. Moreover, 100 people have applied for refugee status, with most of them being nationals of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Rauf Taghiyev, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security department head, said the government intends to apply a quota on labor migrants in 2010. He said the number of illegal aliens in the domestic labor market is twice the number of legal migrants, but the measures being taken will allow reducing the number of people working in Azerbaijan illegally.
According to the International Migration Organization, there are currently over 200 million migrants in the world.
Azerbaijan deported 598 foreigners in 2009, head of the Interior Ministry Department for Combating Illegal Migration Yashar Aghayev said. 329 of the deportees were citizens of Pakistan, 80 of China, 20 of Afghanistan, 26 of Iran, 41 of Turkey, 21 of Turkmenistan, 20 of Georgia, and 20 of Bangladesh, etc.
Aghayev said the committed violations mostly included overstaying visas, failure to reside in the place of registration and to obtain the required permits.
According to Aghayev, the number of deportees has dropped by 50 percent since last year, when 972 people were deported.
This year the number of illegal migrants decreased, he said, likely due to the introduction of the "single window" principle for registration.
According to the official, Azerbaijani citizens were mostly deported from Sweden, Norway, the U.S., the Netherlands and Germany. Fewer Azerbaijanis were deported this year than in the previous years.*
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