To: All Refugees and Asylum Seekers registered by UNHCR:
>> Thursday, August 25, 2011
I got this from one of my friend's forward mail. UNHCR,well known organization, should send this email not only to particular person or community but to public as well by official announcement. Please forgive me that the post here is in English.
To: All Refugees and Asylum Seekers registered by UNHCR:
Kindly be advised that the Malaysian Government has started to conduct
the registration of refugees and asylum seekers registered by UNHCR
under its 6P exercise beginning yesterday 23 August 2011. This
registration will include the taking of bio-data and biometric
information of all individuals concerned. UNHCR has been requested by
the Malaysian Government to assist in the process by verifying the true
identity of each and every individual concerned. The exercise will
involve 6P registration for all asylum seekers and refugees registered
with UNHCR, and will take a number of months to complete.
As for today, 24 August 2011, as agreed by the Malaysian Government and
UNHCR, the first stage of the registration exercise will only be carried
out to those individuals , who reside in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. Due
to the large number individuals, who will be included in this
registration, it is important that this should be undertaken in an
orderly manner. For this reason, UNHCR will be working closely with
refugee community organizations (CBOS) in mobilising the concerned for
purposes of this registration. UNHCR is in contact with the CBOS and had
worked out a scheduling system to have selected population be registered
this week. The schedule will be conducted in different batches and in
accordance to communities that have been identified to send their
members. The first phase of the exercise started yesterday, 23 August
2011 and will continue until August 26, 2011. This will be conducted in
Putrajaya Immigration Office. The second phase of the 6P Exercise will
commence in the month of September, 2011. The dates and venues will be
confirmed. UNHCR will announce the schedule of the second phase once it
is available.
For the first phase of the exercise, which will be conducted between
the 23rd August to the 26th August 2011 the following CBOS have been
advised to send their members to the Putrajaya Immigration Office;,
ACR
CRC
BRO
MMWC
FRO
KAREN
KARENNI
KACHIN
DAI
MON
SHAN
Please. note that with the limited processing capacity by Immigration,
a quota of 2,500 individuals a day is being expected to be processed
from Wednesday (24th August) to Friday (26th August). The above CBOS
have been advised to bring a limit of 600 individuals to be brought to
Putrajaya for the next 3 days (200 a day). Should the number arriving
for 6P registration be larger than the numbers agreed, registration will
be suspended and restarted on another day.
Following is the schedule for the next three days. Each community
should bring the assigned number of individuals at the time which is
indicated:
CRC/ACR - 400 individuals @ 8am
BRO/MMWC - 400 individuals @ 10am
FRO/KAREN - 400 individuals @ 12pm
KACHIN/KARENNIE - 400 individuals @ 2pm
SHAN - 200 individuals @ 3pm
DAI/MON - 400 individuals @ 4pm
The communities below were briefed not to send their members for the 6P
exercise until further notice;
BMC
RSM
ERCA
STROM
NLD
ALD
ZAM
ZIM
FALAM AGAPE
ARAKAN (informed us that they have engaged an agent to conduct the
exercise for them)
Due to the overwhelming response we have been receiving, its advised
for individuals who do not fall into any of the CBOS above to wait for
further instructions from UNHCR before wanting to proceed to Putrajaya
for the registration. As explained earlier, all UNHCR registered asylum
seekers and refugees will be included in the 6P registration.
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We have also forwarded your concerns to the registration unit.
Regards,
Programme Unit (Education)
Tel: +603.2141 1322
Fax: +603.2141 1780
Email: mlsluedu@unhcr.org
1 comments:
No order for refugees to register
Hishammuddin Hussein denies that his ministry issued an order for UNHCR card holders to register under the 6P amnesty programme.
PUTRAJAYA: The Home Ministry is unaware of the order demanding United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) card holders to register under the ongoing 6P amnesty programme.
On Tuesday, 10,000 UNHCR card holders turned up to register under the 6P programme at the Immigration Department in Putrajaya after an apparent eleventh hour notice on Monday night from the ministry.
However, a bulk of these refugees and asylum seekers were turned away by the ill-prepared Immigration Department who said they could only process 2,500 applications a day.
Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein today said there was no such order.
However, he added that talks were in progress with the UNHCR Malaysia where these card holders would be registered in batches as to not overwhelm the Immigration Department.
“It was not an order by the Home Ministry, not that I know off… we have been engaging UNHCR (to register the card holders) so their registration can be done in a staggered (manner),” he told a press conference here.
“There is nothing sinister about this. We are engaging UNHCR over the matter,” he added.
‘I will not be discouraged’
The 6P registration process was initially meant to register illegal migrant workers. However, the ministry later announced that legal foreign workers would have to register as well.
The move to register refugees and asylum seekers under the programme was criticised by those who argued that refugees were different from migrant workers.
UNHCR card holders also expressed fear over possible deportation after registration.
When this was highlighted, Home Ministry deputy secretary-general (national registration and immigration policy) Alwi Ibrahim said the refugees would be separated into another category at a later time.
“They will have to register first under the 6P, then we will separate them from illegal workers,” he told FMT.
The ministry also revealed that 2, 237 978 illegal and legal migrants had registered under the 6P programme to date.
On another matter, Hishammuddin, who received a death threat and two live bullets yesterday, said that he would not be discouraged from carrying our his responsibilities as he believed he was on the right track.
The minister said that it was normal for him to receive such threats but this was the first time that he was threatened with live bullets.
In his speech at the ministry’s monthly meeting earlier, he joked about the incident, saying: “Pehaps, the person thinks the ministry does not have enough bullets, so they sent two more.”
@ http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/08/25/no-order-for-refugees-to-register/
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