Subvenciones de los proyectos - Migrations

• Resolution of 24 June 2022, of the Directorate-General for Humanitarian Assistance and Social Inclusion of Immigration, calling for grants for projects for the voluntary return of third-country nationals.
• Extract from the Resolution of 24 June 2022 of the Directorate-General for Humanitarian Assistance and Social Inclusion of Immigration, which calls for grants for projects for the voluntary return of third-country nationals.
  • Object: The purpose of these grants will be to provide counselling and assistance for third-country nationals who are socially and/or economically vulnerable before and after voluntary return to their countries of origin. There are two different types of projects, which may be co-financed by the FAMI Fund, under the conditions and with the requirements set out in this Call Resolution:

    The management of these projects is entrusted to non-governmental organizations and international organizations specialized in the care of immigrants.

    • Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Project: its main objective is to make it easier for third-country nationals to return voluntarily from Spain to their countries of origin through individualized return and reintegration itineraries.
    • Productive voluntary return project: its main objective is to facilitate the voluntary return of third-country nationals to their countries of origin and sustainable reintegration in these countries through individualized return and reintegration itineraries that include support for entrepreneurial skills through training activities in self-employment and business management, as well as technical assistance and monitoring of the implementation of business initiatives associated with return, giving priority in the selection of participants to those who are in a situation of accredited economic and social vulnerability.

Third country nationals (i.e. any person who is not a citizen of the Union within the meaning of Article 20(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) who are in any of these situations may participate in these projects:

Likewise, they must not be involved in any of the cases of prohibition of departure from Spain provided for in the legislation on foreigners for which verification, the entities responsible for the return project, must follow the procedure indicated for that purpose, or in any of the following situations:

Depending on the return project in question, the recipients of the projects must meet different requirements:

In addition, in all projects, the beneficiary persons must:

• Have not received a final decision refusing to allow them to apply for a stay, legal residence and/or international protection in a Member State and to opt for voluntary return;
• Enjoy the right of stay, legal residence and/or international protection under Directive 2011/95/EU, or temporary protection under Directive 2001/55/EC in a Member State, and who have opted for voluntary return;
• Being in a Member State and not meeting or no longer meeting the conditions for entry into and/or stay in a Member State, including third-country nationals whose expulsion has been postponed in accordance with Article 9 and Article 14(1) of Directive 2008/115/EC.
• Be beneficiaries of the European right to free movement under Union law, as defined in Article 2(5) of Regulation (EU) 2016/399 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 establishing a Code of Union Rules for the Crossing of Persons at Borders (Schengen Borders Code).
• That their stay in Spain has been less than 90 days, except cases of extreme vulnerability that will be duly accredited by the entity that derives and authorized by the General Directorate of Humanitarian Assistance and Social Inclusion of Immigration.
• Assisted voluntary return and reintegration project: they must prove a situation of vulnerability.
• Productive voluntary return project: in addition to proving their situation of vulnerability, they must demonstrate their interest in participating in a business entrepreneurship project associated with return.
• Submit a declaration of voluntariness and commitment not to return to Spain in a period of 3 years to engage in gainful or professional activity for oneself or others, or to reside in Spain through a non-gainful temporary residence permit.
• Renounce the official documents that link them to Spain.

The general benefits are as follows: information and guidance, psychological support, international return ticket to your country of origin from your place of residence; financial travel assistance and management of financial assistance for the first installation. Also included in the assisted voluntary return project, as well as in the productive one, are unforeseen expenses for medicines and payment of necessary accompaniment expenses in case of illness, incapacity or other invalidating circumstance and other exceptional expenses, such as expenses for transport, assistance and linguistic support, connectivity, and in cases of special vulnerability expenses for accommodation in the days before the return, among others. In addition, in the case of voluntary productive return, advice, guidance and initial assessment of the business project, its feasibility and sustainability; training in the preparation of the project, follow-up of the project and financial assistance per project are provided.

• Beneficiary entities

  The entities, non-governmental organizations and international organizations and entities of a similar nature that attend the call must meet the requirements established in article 4 of Order ESS/1423/2012 of 29 June:

  • To have as primary institutional purposes the implementation of activities in favour of the groups referred to in article 1.
  • Lack of profit purposes. For these purposes, non-profit entities shall also be considered to be those that carry out activities of a commercial nature, provided that the benefits resulting from them are invested in their entirety in the fulfilment of their institutional, non-commercial purposes.
  • Have the scope of state action, according to its constitutive title, except those organizations whose territorial scope of action is Ceuta and Melilla.
  • They must be legally constituted and duly registered in the corresponding state administrative register.
  • Have sufficient structure and capacity to ensure the fulfilment of the objectives, providing evidence of the operational experience required for this, in accordance with the criteria listed in Article 9.1.
  • Not to have reinstated more than 40 percent of the aid and subsidies received in any of the last five calls as a result of a reinstatement procedure, from the budget of the General Secretariat of Immigration and Emigration or the previous State Secretariat of Immigration and Emigration.
  • For the purposes set out in Article 4.1.a) 5º of Order ESS/1423/2012, of 29 June, it shall be understood that the entity or non-governmental organization has accredited the necessary operational experience and has sufficient structure and capacity to ensure compliance with the objectives, when it obtains at least 35 points, in accordance with the criteria listed in Article 9.1 of Order ESS/1423/2012, of 29 June

• In accordance with Article 6 of Order ESS/1423/2012 of 29 June, applications to participate in this Call must be submitted within twenty calendar days from the day following the publication in the “Official State Gazette” of the extract of this Call Resolution.
• The applications will be made in the accompanying models as >Annexes I to V and will be addressed to the Directorate General for Humanitarian Assistance and Social Inclusion of Immigration.
• The applications must be accompanied by the documentation established in article 6.3 of Order ESS/1423/2012, of 29 June. It will be possible to provide all the additional explanatory documentation that is considered convenient for the better understanding and valuation of the applications.
• Entities may submit a maximum of two projects, one for each return modality, as described in Annex A of this call.

The projects can be implemented from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023.

• Regulatory bases of the call for proposals

  Order ESS/1423/2012 of 29 June, establishing the regulatory bases for the granting of subsidies in the area of integration of immigrants, applicants and beneficiaries of international protection, statelessness and temporary protection. (BOE 30/6/2012).

Here you can find all the necessary documents to complete the application, processing and justification of the grant