Luxembourg has a case-by-case approach in terms of allocation of asylum applicants to reception facilities. Indeed, when deciding on the attribution of social aid, which includes accommodation, the Luxembourgish Reception and Integration Office (OLAI), takes into consideration two main criteria: the individual situation of the applicant (household composition, age of family members, potential specific needs, … Continued

Luxembourg’s economy is focussed on the financial and service sector having one modern and financial centre. The government policy intends to focus on attracting highly added value activities focussed in new technologies (biomedicine and information and communication technologies – focussing on IT security), logistics and research. However, Luxembourg being one of the smallest countries in the European Union, … Continued

A more recent aspect of the national migration policy was to resort to cross-border labour force from the 1990s onwards. Indeed, the Greater Region, formed by Luxembourg, Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany), Lorraine (France) and Wallonia (Belgium), constitutes the biggest political transnational space in Europe and counts almost 25% of the total number of cross-border workers … Continued

The overall objective of this study is to provide an overview of the immigration policies implemented by each Member State and Norway regarding international students and taking into consideration the above mentioned aspects. At the national level, the topic is highly important if one takes into account that the University of Luxembourg is a young … Continued

The National Legislative Framework: Visas and Residence Permits Scale and Scope of the Phenomenon Identified Restrictions to Intra-EU Mobility of Third-Country Nationals Conclusions

In Luxembourg, there have been discussions on marriages of convenience as being used to allow the entrance of foreigner by the procedure of family reunification. As the ICCS mentioned in 2010 there was the suspicion that there had been an increase of marriages of convenience between Luxembourgish and EU national with asylum seekers to allow … Continued

Issuing a visa derives from the sovereign authority of the State. Visa policy is composed of a group of parameters set by national legislation (Constitution, laws, regulations and decrees), thereby allowing the administration to determine which foreigners can be admitted to enter and stay on a temporary basis on its territory. It is a social phenomenon … Continued

In this study, the EMN NCP LU attempts to provide, as far as possible, an overview of existing approaches, mechanisms and measures implemented in Luxembourg in order to address irregular migration. The analysis of different governmental programmes has shown that the fight against irregular migration has gradually become a priority on policy level over the … Continued

Circular and temporary migrations have become important concepts at the global and EU-level and have elicited remarkable interest among policy-makers and scholars, notably in relation to the wider issue of migration and development. The preparation of the national contribution to the EMN study on circular and temporary migration has shown that, in Luxembourg, both political … Continued

Economic immigration is considered by the European Union Member States as an important factor for resolving not only the problem of ageing of the general population of the Union, but also the negative birth-rates and the lack of highly qualified labour. After the economic and financial crisis of the last three years the problem is … Continued