Monday, October 25, 2010

Radical Party: Regularise irregular immigrants

The party submits to Parliament a proposal calling for regularization of irregular immigrants,

The Parliament is currently discussing the Government’s financial plan to help Italy out of the financial crisis. One of the several proposed amendments to the financial plan calls for regularization of irregular immigrants.

Should the Parliament approve the proposed amendment submitted by the Radical Party, all irregular immigrants whose employers applied for authorization to work under the Quota Agreement (Decreto flussi) in 2007 would have a chance of being regularized.

So many employers applied for authorization to work but they didn’t succeed because all the quotas had been exhausted.

Under the proposed amendment, either the employer who submitted the application in 2007 or a new one would have to pay a forfeit fee of 100 Euros to regularize his/her worker.

It also proposes the silence-means-consent rule whereby if the Immigrations Office at the Prefecture doesn’t summon the employer and the worker to undersign the work contract within 20 days of submitting the application, then the irregular immigrant can proceed to apply for the Permit of Stay.

Leader of Radical Party Emma Bonino termed the proposed regularisation of irregular immigrants a question of legality that may produce some income in terms of social security contributions and taxes.

Let’s wait and see how the Parliament will react to the proposal.

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