Working Group on Sponsorship Letters

Working Group on Overseas Protection and Sponsorship

Task Force on Family Class Sponsorship Breakdown and Default

As intra-corporate transfers consist of temporary secondment, the applicant should provide evidence, as part of the work contract or the assignment letter, that the third-country national will be able to transfer back to an entity belonging to the same group and established in a third country at the end of the assignment.

(19) As intra-corporate transfers consist of temporary secondment , the applicant should provide evidence, as part of the work contract or the assignment letter, that the third-country national will be able to transfer back to an entity belonging to the same group and established in a third country at the end of the assignment.

11. Recalls that the possibilities for people in need of protection to legally enter the EU are very limited and deplores the fact that they have to resort to criminal smugglers and dangerous routes to find protection in Europe; considers it therefore a high priority that the EU and its Member States provide safe and legal avenues for refugees; calls on the Commission to put forward a much more ambitious European resettlement programme, substantially increasing the 20 000 resettlement places so far planned, and calls on the Member States to provide the necessary places; recalls that the UNHCR is looking for 230 000 resettlement places for Syrian refugees; encourages the Member States to establish ...[+++]private sponsorship programmes which will allow NGOs or other groups, such as faith-based organisations, to support the resettlement of refugees; calls on the Member States to enhance family reunification, to overcome legal and practical obstacles to swifter decisions on family reunification and to follow the Commission guidelines on the application of the Family Reunification Directive both in letter and in spirit; believes that the Visa Code should be amended by including more specific common provisions on humanitarian visas; calls on the Member States to make full use of the already existing possibilities for issuing humanitarian visas at their embassies and consular offices so that people in need of protection can enter the EU safely, by ferry or airplane instead of putting their lives at risk on an unseaworthy smuggler’s boat; asks the Member States to make it possible to apply for asylum at their embassies and consular offices; calls on the Commission to introduce a visa waiver for Syria so that Syrian refugees no longer need a visa to enter the Schengen area;

whereas the bipartisan letters sent to the US President by US Senators and by Members of the US House of Representatives, as well as the letter by four Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade, including its Chairman, urged the HLWG to quickly formulate ambitious proposals to stimulate trade and investment between EU and US, and to remove unnecessary barriers to transatlantic trade and investment; wher ...[+++]eas both letters emphasise a need to make increased trade and investment with the EU a priority, and specifically support efforts to address regulatory barriers (and, to achieve closer cooperation between regulators, non-tariff barriers), the reduction of tariffs to zero where possible, the trade in services, investment, and the further opening up of our public procurement markets to each other;