Information on Return and Reintegration

IOM Information and Return Counselling Centre Berlin

The Return and Reintegration Counselling Center of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) provides an individual, non-binding and unbiased consultation regarding the possibilities for voluntary return and reintegration. The counsellors can advise you on the support that can be offered through voluntary return assistance programmes and whether there are reintegration programmes available in your country of origin.

Furthermore, within the framework of the ZIRF-Counselling project many counselling centres can pose individual questions about your country of origin to the local IOM offices aiming to assist you during the decision-making process and/or the preparation of your voluntary return.

In addition to offering counselling at the IOM counselling centres at the Landesamt für Einwanderung (LEA), IOM offers mobile counselling on request, to enable all migrants in Berlin to benefit from impartial in-person counselling on site.

You can find more information here: Internationale Organisation für Migration (Berlin) - Independent counselling centre (returningfromgermany.de)

Areas of counselling:

• Information about funding for voluntary return
• Information about reintegration programmes in countries of return
• Information about the situation in the country of return
• Referral to other institutions and aid organizations in respective Federal State
• General guidance on organizing departure
• If requested: Contacting migration officers of the Aliens Office in order to resolve barriers to departure

Co-funded by:

IOM in Germany

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is an agency of the United Nations and works with governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental partners in the field of migration. IOM is committed to dignified and orderly migration and supports the implementation of the 2030 Agenda through its work in the areas of intervention that include humanitarian aid, sustainable development, and peacebuilding.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, IOM cooperates with ministries and authorities such as the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI), the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), the relevant state ministries, as well as civil society organizations, welfare associations and diaspora organizations. Areas of work include, but are not limited to, return and reintegration, resettlement and humanitarian admission, family reunification, crisis response, resource mobilization and psychosocial support.

In addition to the country office, the Global Data Institute (GDI) is also based in Germany, and is dedicated to research and knowledge management in the field of migration.

You can find more information here: Rückkehr and Reintegration | IOM Deutschland, UN-Migration | IOM Germany