TOKYO, May 9 (Xinhua) — Japan’s decrease home of parliament throughout a plenary session on Tuesday handed a contentious invoice to amend an immigration legislation permitting authorities to deport international nationals who apply for refugee standing a number of occasions.
The controversial revision of the immigration legislation has been closely criticized by organizations established to assist asylum seekers.
Such entities imagine that ought to the invoice cross parliament’s higher chamber and change into enacted into legislation, it might result in people being repatriated to their residence nations the place they face persecution.
The Japanese authorities believes the present system, which doesn’t enable for international nationals to be deported whereas their utility for refugee standing is being processed, could also be being abused.
It believes that international nationals have been making use of for refugee standing a number of occasions within the data that whereas the standing of their utility is pending, they can’t be deported from Japan.
The envisioned modification to the legislation, set to be debated within the higher chamber of Japan’s bicameral parliament, will convey an finish to the prolonged detention in immigration services for potential refugees, together with international nationals who’ve overstayed their visas and haven’t complied with deportation orders.
Under the amended legislation, when making use of for refugee standing for the third time or later, those that fail the method for not having the ability to present why their standing as a refugee must be granted will likely be repatriated by the Japanese authorities.
The amended legislation would, nevertheless, grant quasi-refugee standing to people from conflict-affected areas, permitting them to remain in Japan even when they don’t qualify for full refugee standing.
Refugee standing was given to a file 202 individuals in Japan in 2022. But this was out of three,772 candidates, with Japan falling far behind some European nations and the United States who soak up tens of 1000’s of refugees yearly.