AMIF – Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund – 2021-2027

The Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund aims to further boost national capacities and improve procedures for migration management, as well as to enhance solidarity and responsibility sharing between Member States, in particular through emergency assistance and the relocation mechanism. It also facilitates the integration of refugees through targeted subsidies for language learning, training, work and housing. Since 2022, FAMI has been used to help refugees from Ukraine.

Objectives 

• To strengthen and develop all aspects of the Common European Asylum System, including its external dimension
• To support legal migration to the EU Member States,in accordance with their economic and social needs, such as labour market needs, and promoting the effective integration of nationals from non-EU countries
• To enhance return strategies in the Member States, with an emphasis on the sustainability of return and effective readmission in the countries of origin
• To contribute to the fight against irregular migration and ensuring sustainable return and effective readmission to third countries
• To enhance solidarity and responsibility sharing between the Member States, in particular towards those most affected by migration and asylum challenges

Structure

• Thematic Facility
• National Programmes

Priorities

• Priority 1: a more robust and efficient Common European Asylum System
• Priority 2: more support for integration
• Priority 3: acceleration and intensification of returns

Financed actions

• Ensuring a uniform application of the EU “acquis” and priorities related to the Common European Asylum System, legal migration and return
• Providing support and services consistent with the status and the needs of the person concerned, in particular vulnerable groups
• Supporting resettlement, humanitairian admission and transfers of applicants for and beneficiaries of international protection
• Supporting the development and implementation of policies promoting legal migration, such as the development of mobility schemes to the EU and raising awareness of the appropriate legal channels of immigration
• Supporting integration measures tailored to the needs of third-country nationals and early integration programmes focusing on education, language and other training (such as civic orientation courses and professional guidance) to prepare their active participation in and their acceptance by the receiving society
• Supporting infrastructures for the reception of third country nationals, including the possible joint use of such facilities by more than one Member State
• Supporting an integrated and coordinated approach to return management at the EU and Member States’ level, development of capacities for effective and sustainable return and reducing incentives for irregular migration
• Supporting assisted voluntary return and reintegration
• Cooperating with third countries on asylum, legal migration and countering irregular migration and on effective return and readmission for the purpose of managing migration