Table 7: Voluntary and forcible returns of stateless persons between 1 January - 31 December 2015154
Destination Country
Voluntarily
Home country/Third
country**
By force*
Not known/not
registered
Algeria
1
1
Austria
8
8
Belgium
2
2
Bulgaria
1
1
Czech Republic
4
Denmark
28
Egypt
4
4
6
34
4
Estonia
1
1
Finland
1
1
France
6
3
9
Germany
23
3
26
Greece
3
1
4
Hungary
5
2
7
Iraq
3
3
Israel
3
3
Italy
27
9
36
Jordan
13
9
22
Kosovo
1
Latvia
1
2
3
Lebanon
20
4
24
Netherlands
4
Norway
7
2
9
Palestine
5
2
7
Qatar
3
3
Romania
1
1
Saudi Arabia
2
2
Slovakia
1
Spain
20
Switzerland
1
Turkey
14
UAE
1
Ukraine
8
1
4
1
6
1
USA
1
221
*
8
20
1
20
52
293
According to the SMA (email 20 September 2012), these are the cases that the police have reported to the SMA as “return
implemented”. The reporting of returns by the police does not happen in 100 per cent of cases, however, and this figure
therefore represents a minimum number of implemented returns by force. In all these cases, the return has not necessarily been
implemented by force either; the figure includes persons who the SMA has handed over to the police for return by force under
the impression that the person has absconded and it later turns out that this was not the case. But as the case has already been
handed over to the police they deal with it regardless of the nature of the return.
** The SMA cannot differentiate between return to the home country or to a third country.
154
15
1
20
TOTAL
26
1
Unknown/not registered
46
Total
Home country/Third
country**
Email from the SMA, 30 September 2016.
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