First contact
Registration
Identification
Accommodation
First assistance
Age assessment
Family tracing
Relocation
Case assessment
Care planning Life project
Education and training
Work
Health care
Residence permit
Asylum procedure
Best interests determination
Identification of a durable solution
Implementation of a durable solution
Family reunification
Preventing Immigration detention
Turning 18: Leaving care
Aftercare
Ending guardianship
Residence permit
Residence permit means any permit or authorisation
issued by the authorities of a Member State, in the form provided for under
that State’s law, allowing a third-country national or stateless person to
reside on its territory (Qualification Directive
(2011/95/EU), Article 2 (m)).
Not all unaccompanied children are refugees or in
need of international protection. Where it is in the best interests of a child
to remain in the country of arrival, EU Member States offer different
possibilities for children to regularise their stay, for instance by applying
for a residence permit. The options available for migrant children differ from
country to country. Unaccompanied children whose asylum applications have been
rejected may be granted a temporary permit of stay that expires when they turn
18. Under EU law, non-national children who are victims of trafficking are
entitled to a temporary residence permit.
The guardians has an important role in supporting
the child and securing the rights of the child in procedures for regularising
their stay and obtaining a residence permit, just as in procedures for
international protection.
Reference:
EU training and learning platform for guardians of
unaccompanied children
Chapter 3: Supporting the child from arrival todurable solution
Handout 23: Residence permit procedure
Handout 25: Child-sensitive procedural safeguards
Literature:
FRA
(European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights) (2014), Guardianship for children deprived of
parental care, A handbook to reinforce guardianship systems to cater for
the specific needs of child victims of trafficking, Luxembourg, Publications Office of
the European Union (Publications Office).