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Foreigners Registration Centre operating for 15 years in Lithuania
Petras Vaida, BC, Vilnius, 04.01.2012.
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Print versionThe Foreigners Registration Centre (FRC), managed by the Border Police Department in Pabrade has been operating for 15 years already. It was established in January, 1997, in the quarters of the Border Police Department's Rapid-Response Squad.
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The FRC is the only facility in Lithuania providing, upon court decisions, temporary domicile to foreigners who illegally entered or stayed in Lithuania, writes LETA/ELTA.
Upon decisions by the Migration Department, the FRC also accommodates asylum applicants.
Furthermore, the FRC is responsible for transferring those foreigners, who have been granted temporary asylum in Lithuania, to the Refugee Reception Centre in Rukla.
The FRC is also to organise voluntary returns of foreigners to their home countries and removals from Lithuania.
At the moment, there are 173 persons living at the FRC, the majority of which is Russia and Georgia's citizens.
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