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HUNGARY
Under the readmission agreements, migrants have been returned to Albania, Bulgaria, Czech
Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, etc. from
1993 onward. In the period 1993-2002, there were more than 700 migrants returned under the
Assisted Voluntary Return programmes. 5
For those countries with which Hungary has not concluded readmission agreements, any return
from Hungary needs to gain the agreement of authorities of the countries concerned. IOM has
successfully assisted many cases of voluntary return in this regard.
1.4 STATISTICS ON INVOLUNTARY RETURN
The number of expulsions have, over the years, far exceeded those of voluntary returns from the
country. In 1998 alone, 22,553 aliens were issued an expulsion order, 6 although the number of
actual deportations appears to be much lower, as expulsion figures for 2003 indicate.
As of November 2003, the number of expulsions were as follows:
TABLE 1
STATISTICS ON INVOLUNTARY RETURN
(AS OF NOVEMBER 2003)
Destination Number Destination Number Destination Number
Albania 5 Algeria 3 Belarus 1
Israel 1 Libya 1 Mongolia 7
Russia 3 Bulgaria 5 Bangladesh 1
Egypt 5 China 8 Macedonia 1
Germany 1 Armenia 1 Syria 2
Greece 1 Netherlands 1 Iran 1
Poland 1 Moldova 1 Italy 1
Canada 1 Turkey 6 Saudi Arabia 1
2. ASSISTED VOLUNTARY RETURN
2.1 POLICY AND LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENTS AND PROVISIONS
The government supports and implements, in cooperation with IOM, programmes for assisted
voluntary return. The beneficiaries of the voluntary return programmes are rejected asylum seekers,
asylum seekers awaiting decisions by the Hungarian authorities, and other foreign nationals in
Hungary who wish to return voluntarily to their respective home countries and need assistance.