In order to promote the rapid integration of refugee families in the country of settlement, joining close family members should in principle be granted the same legal status and facilities as the head of the family who has been formally recognized as a refugee.
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Movement
Person(s) affected
Families
Persons on the move
Year
1981
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
ExCom Conclusion No. 24, Family Reunification (1981), OP 8.