Em 2020-45 Remotes 2019 to 21 January 2020

The count of removals of illegal aliens is broken down according to three types of removals reflecting different methods of handling irregular immigration:

1. Forced removals, characterised by the taking of an expulsion decision and its enforcement by coercion, which comprise the following categories:

— Returns of third-country nationals outside the European Union;
— Readmission of third-country nationals to the European Union;
— Return of EU nationals to their country.

1. Assisted removals, characterised by the implementation of a removal measure without constraint, through assistance for return.

2. Spontaneous removals, without coercion and without assistance, after a removal measure, the accounting of which is necessarily partial.

Moreover, foreigners in an irregular situation may decide to leave the territory without having been the subject of an expulsion measure, while resorting to assistance. These are aided voluntary departures.

Finally, from 1 July 2014, when an irregular alien presents himself at the border, although he has not been the subject of a prior expulsion decision, his exit from the territory is taken into account as a “spontaneous departure”[1].

[1] Until 1 July 2014, when an irregular alien presented himself at the border, although he had not been the subject of a prior removal decision, such an expulsion decision could be taken against him at the border; his exit from the territory then fell into the category of spontaneous remoteness.