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Annual reports on migration and asylum outline the most significant political and legislative
developments and debates in the EMN Member States and at EU-level in the year.
The reports provide a unique overview of migration and asylum-related developments.

This Study covers approaches to establish the identity of third-country nationals within the migration process, looking both into identification and identity verification related tasks. This is addressed within the context of the asylum procedure, return procedure, as well as legal migration channels, i.e. applications for short-stay visas and for long-stay visas/residence permit for study, work and family purposes.

This Report presents the main findings of the EMN Study on Migratory Pathways for Start-ups and Innovative Entrepreneurs in the European Union (EU). The Study explores in a comparative perspective the national and legal policy frameworks for the admission of start-ups and innovative entrepreneurs from third countries.

This Report presents the main findings of the EMN Study on Attracting and retaining international students in the European Union (EU). The study is very topical in light of the transposition of the Students and Researchers Directive ((EU)2016/801) which sets out a common framework for admission and residence of students from third countries in the EU. A key focus of the study is the underlying policy rationale for attracting and retaining international students and whether this is a policy priority in Member States.

This study provides an overview of general integration policy and labour market integration policy in Finland. The focus of the study is on policies and practices supporting the labour market integration of third-country nationals who have a residence permit and a right to work in Finland. The study offers examples of promising labour market integration measures implemented by the public sector and tailored employment-related initiatives provided by the private sector

This Report presents the main findings of the 2017 EMN Study Approaches to Unaccompanied Minors Following Status Determination in the EU plus Norway. The study covers the period 2014-2017, thereby following up on previous EMN research on unaccompanied minors. It may serve to inform further the approaches of EU Member States plus Norway to the protection of unaccompanied minors following status determination and to inform action on this at EU level.

This inform looks at the implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and effectiveness of bilateral readmission agreements signed by EU Member States. The Inform includes an inventory on bilateral readmission agreements signed by or entered into force in EU Member States in 2014-2021.

This inform strives to examine the impact of incentives and motives on a third-country national’s decision to depart voluntarily. Incentives refer to the measures offered by national authorities to encourage a third-country national to return voluntarily to a country. Motives, on the other hand, refer to the personal and contextual reasons on which a third-country national will make their decision to voluntarily depart or not.

A summary of the study on pathways to citizenship for third-country nationals in the EU. The study provides a comparative overview of the frameworks in place across the Member States of the European Union (EU) for access to national citizenship for new migrants from third countries, through naturalisation.

A statistical annex published alongside the EMN annual report, containing a wide range of national and Eurostat statistics
on migration and asylum.