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were overlapped by the personnel’s lack of knowledge regarding
the legal provisions of the health services. After
2004, the foreigners who have received a form of protection
in Romania have the right to medical assistance as any other
Romanian citizen. To beneficiate of these rights, they must
pay their contribution to the health insurance fund (Law No.
95 from April 14, 2006 regarding the reform in the health
field). According to this law the foreigners who have been
granted a form of protection from the Romanian state before
the implementation the Government Ordinance nr. 44
from 2004 regarding the social integration of the foreigners
in Romania must pay the legal health insurance fees starting
with this date. Still, some of the refugees in the second
wave have reported the same inconsistencies found in the
first wave.
Access to citizenship and naturalization/
Political integration
In the first wave, despite the lack of integration assistance
for the recognized refugees, the Romanian citizenship
laws compelled refugees to show evidences of their integration
in the Romanian society. These requirements were
asked in the absence of any integration program which could
facilitate the refugees’ integration. As a result, in Romania,
but also in the other Central and Eastern Europe before year
2000, despite the imperative requirements of UNHCR, no
facilities were considered for refugees: „None of the other
countries under consideration have legal provisions specifically
reducing the residency requirements for the naturalization
of recognized refugees. The most common period of
residency required of aliens in general for the purposes of
naturalization is five years. This is the case in Romania, Poland,
Slovakia and the Czech Republic, while Slovenia continues
to impose the harshest requirement in this respect,
namely, ten years.“ 178
178. UNHCR. (2000) Integration Rights and Practices with Regard to
Recognized Refugees in the Central European Countries, Geneva, p. 16.
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