Kosovo: Return and reintegration with URA , Date: 2023.01.04, format: Article, area: Return

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The URA (Albanian for "bridge") project offers Kosovan returnees comprehensive advisory services and numerous reintegration and support activities. The aim is to enable people to sustainably reintegrate into their country of origin.

Immediate assistance can include the following (where necessary):

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  • free social counselling/work placement
  • partial reimbursement of travel costs to the centre,
  • one-off payment of an interim benefit,
  • one-off reimbursement of treatment costs and the cost of medicines, and
  • monthly rent support.

The reintegration measures can include the following (where appropriate):

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  • one-off reimbursement of training costs for language courses,
  • provision of basic school materials (benefits in kind),
  • tutoring for school-age children and juveniles,
  • assumption of the costs for club memberships and leisure activities for children,
  • paying for childcare costs,
  • contribution towards training costs for theoretical and practical vocational further training,
  • contribution towards living expenses during training, and
  • job placement/job-creation measures.

The following one-off payments can be granted to support starting up a business, contingent on the return having been voluntary:

  • training costs,
  • financial training support, and
  • start-up payment for promising business ideas.

N.B.:

Financial support benefits can only be used by returnees returning from the following Federal Länder:

  • Baden-Württemberg,
  • Berlin,
  • Bremen,
  • Lower Saxony,
  • North Rhine-Westphalia (only voluntary returnees),
  • Saxony,
  • Saxony-Anhalt,
  • Schleswig-Holstein,
  • Thuringia (only voluntary returnees).

The individual support needs are assessed at personal counselling sessions.

The "URA" project is operated on a year-by-year basis, currently runing until 31 December 2024. Once this period has come to an end, the project can be extended for another year. 

The following documentation is needed for the application:

  • school certificate from Germany for children who are still minors,
  • birth certificates for any children who were born in Germany, and
  • documents on the asylum procedure such as the asylum-seeker registration certificate (abbreviated to "BÜMA") or the proof of arrival.

Contact details

You can find information about "URA" as part of return advisory services, or by calling the Federal Office's returnees' hotline.

Applications for support benefits can only be submitted at the Returnees' Centre in Priština.

The centre is open to the public from Monday to Friday from 9 to 11.30 a.m. and from 12.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Contacts

Federal Office for Migration and Refugees - return hotline

Frankenstraße 210
90461 Nuremberg

Phone +49 911 943 - 0
Fax: +49 911 943 - 1000
E-mail: Write a message

Return Centre "URA - The Bridge"
The centre is open to the public from Monday to Friday from 9 to 11.30 a.m. and from 12.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Rruga Arkitekt Karl Gega No. 38
10000 Pristina
Republic of Kosova