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General Law on Migration and Foreigners

General Law on Migration and Foreigners

Human Mobility
Legislation
2009
Year of publication
2009
Specific thematic area
Migration
Sector of governance
Human Mobility
Type of human mobility
Displacement, Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Cross-border
Type of environmental driver
None
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
None
Sub-region
Central America
Region
Central America
Macro-region
Americas
Relevant GCM objective
    5 - Regular pathways
Child marker
Not Available
Gender marker
Not Available
Human rights marker
Not Available

Capítulo IV - Categorías Especiales. Art. 93 - La Dirección General podrá autorizar el ingreso al país y la permanencia en él de personas extranjeras, mediante categorías migratorias especiales, con el fin de regular situaciones migratorias que, por su naturaleza, requieran un tratamiento diferente de las categorías migratorias. Art. 94 - Serán categorías especiales, entre otras, las siguientes: 12) Los demás que la Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería estime conveniente por razones humanitarias, de conformidad con los instrumentos internacionales de derechos humanos, así como los determinados en el Reglamento de la presente Ley. TRANSLATION -

Arts. 93, 94, 95, 96 (Ley No. 8764, 2009), Arts. 2, 135, 136 (Decreto No. 37112-G, 2012)

Humanitarian reason, understood as a [c]ircumstance in which a foreign national with a high degree of vulnerability finds herself to the detriment of her condition as a human person (for stay, more closely defined as ‘a special situation of vulnerability derived from her age, gender, disability, among other conditions, that makes regularising her migratory situation necessary to attend to that situation.

Arts. 93, 94, 95, 96 (Ley No. 8764, 2009), Arts. 2, 135, 136 (Decreto No. 37112-G, 2012)

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).