Applications will be submitted through the MOS portal, together with the required formal documents, and will bear a qualified electronic signature or a trusted profile. There will still be a requirement to attend in person to provide fingerprints and a signature and to show a passport.

The bill also provides, among other things:

1. A definition of a member of a split family, with a relevant separate new form and a procedure for submitting it
2. Improvements to the procedure for returning foreigners to their countries of origin in line with EU regulations ( Regulations 862/2007[1] or 2016/1953[2] ), including:

1. Introduction of a European travel document for returning to the country of origin
2. Introduction of a legal institution of instructing a foreigner about the obligation to travel to the territory to which another Member State has ordered that person to return, together with the establishment of a register of such issued instructions – with the aim of reducing the duplication of decisions by Member States
3. Financial support for reintegrating into the country of origin in order to motivate migrants to remain there after they have returned
4. The option of serving correspondence by e-mail in voluntary return proceedings.

Currently, the government website is only displaying the intentions behind the bill. The planned date for the adoption of the bill by the Council of Ministers is Q4 2024.

You may read the full statement of the intentions here.

[1]Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 311/76 on the compilation of statistics on foreign workers

[2] Regulation (EU) 2016/1953 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on the establishment of a European travel document for the return of illegally staying third-country nationals and repealing the Council’s recommendations of 30 November 1994.