Family Reunification of Third-Country Nationalsin the EU plus Norway : National Practices ; EMN Synthesis Report for the EMN Focussed Study 2016

The following Synthesis Report presents a comparative overview of the main findings of the 2016 EMN Focussed Study on Family Reunification of Third-Country Nationals (TCNs) in the EU plus Norway: National Report. The Study aims to compare national policies and/ or practices on family reunification between the different EU Member States plus Norway, and to provide up-to-date information on the latest developments in this area of legal migration to Europe since 2011 onwards. The Study further aims to provide comparable data on the scale of family reunification in the EU28 plus Norway at present, as well as overtime (2011-2015 and 2016 where available), supplementing available Eurostat data with national statistics where available.