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Nationality Verification
As the 28th Feb 2010 deadline to enter NV or be Around 70, 000 migrants from Burma have now
deported approached, MJP moved forward with its NV
completed NV. Still, many migrants and their employers
campaign in the face of increased domestic and
continue to lack understanding of the process, brokers
international attention. Still few migrants had entered
remain largely unregulated (although a 5, 000 Baht limit
the process and awareness remained low and NV
was formally applied to the costs they can charge for
brokers also remained unregulated. MJP put together
assisting with NV processes in mid Feb 2010), and
the second of two international petitions on the issue around 1.3 million migrants remain unregistered,
that was signed by many of the leading international unable to enter NV and subject to immediate
human rights and global union organisations, and led a deportation (around 300, 000 eligible migrants missed
march on 16th Feb 2010 in Bangkok to petition the the NV deadline, and approximately 1 million
Prime Minister, UN and ILO. On 18th Feb 2010 the UN unregistered migrants were never eligible for NV).
Special Rapportuer on the Human Rights of Migrants
issued a public statement criticizing the RTG’s
On 20th Apr 2010, RTG announced that there would be
implementation of the NV policy and expressing grave
no new registration process for migrants who had not
concerns on the RTG’s statements regarding mass
entered NV by the 2nd Mar 2010 deadline. After almost
deportation of migrants who did not enter NV before
20 years, RTG would cease new registration amnesties.
28th Feb 2010.
Instead of mass deportation for the approximately 1.3
million currently unregistered migrants in Thailand,
Towards the end of Feb 2010, the 28th Feb 2010 the RTG recommended such migrants voluntarily
deadline was changed so that migrants were only
“return home” and enter into newly developed formal
required to submit their “intention” to enter NV (n.b.
“labour import mechanisms that will bring them back
the deadline was later extended to 2nd Mar 2010 due to
to Thailand “legally.”
a public holiday). The deadline to submit biographical
information into the process was extended another
5. Migrant Working Group