Legal migration fitness check : summary of replies to the public consultation on legal migration by non-EU citizens

The Fitness check evaluates the existing EU legislation on legal migration according to the criteria of relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency and EU added value. It will identify any possible gaps and inconsistencies and analyse if the current legal framework contributes to an effective management of migration flows. 'Legal migration' should be understood mainly as referring to stays of non-EU citizens for more than three months in the EU. The results of the public consultation are analysed in the current document according to the referred evaluation criteria and to the different profiles of the respondents that participated in the consultation, which are the following: - Profile 1: Non-EU citizens looking to migrate/temporarily move to the EU ; Profile 2: Non-EU citizens residing or having resided in the EU ; Profile 3: Employers; non-EU service providers and private recruitment agencies ; Profile 4: Authorities in the EU Member States (migration, employment, including public employment agencies, but also consulates/embassies and agencies promoting students' and researchers' mobility with third countries) ; Profile 5: Other respondents (NGOs, international organisations, trade unions, academics, immigration lawyers and advisers, interested citizens, others) This summary presents the main issues that have emerged across the evaluation criteria and the main points provided by respondents in the written contributions.