Lebanese Security Stops Receiving Requests to Legalize Syrians: Updates and Reactions

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The General Directorate of Lebanese Security announced, in a statement, yesterday, Monday, May 15, that its regional centers have stopped receiving requests to regularize the status of Syrians.

The statement stressed that receiving requests to regularize the status of Syrian nationals entering Lebanon illegally will be stopped, with the aim of allowing them to settle their status directly upon their voluntary departure through the border departments and centers, without issuing notifications of entry ban against them to Lebanon, until June 15, 2023, so that they can legal re-entry.

About one and a half million Syrians live in Lebanon, according to government figures in Lebanon. Most of them suffer from difficult humanitarian and living conditions, especially with the exacerbation of the Lebanese economic crisis.

And the statement indicated that with regard to the Syrians who entered Lebanon legally, and violated the residency system, they can apply to the regional centers of the General Security to settle their situation within the specified conditions, and according to the facilities recently announced by the Directorate, until June 30, 2023.

And the statement continued: “In this context, the General Directorate of General Security stresses on Syrian nationals the necessity of adhering to the residency system in Lebanon with all its provisions, and the legal requirements will be taken against violators after the two dates specified above.”

And the General Directorate of Public Security continued in its statement: “On the other hand, it was found through the investigations and investigations carried out by the concerned agencies in the directorate, that some citizens are organizing fictitious pledges of responsibility, for Syrians who do not exist with them or work for them, and then they apply from the regional centers to obtain residence permits.” them, while they work for others, or at their own expense, or invest in shops and commercial establishments without adhering to the content of the pledge, and contrary to the laws and regulations in force.

At the end of its statement, the General Directorate of Public Security called on citizens to abide by the laws, especially the labor law and the residence system, and not to cause chaos in the labor market in these difficult circumstances that require protecting the Lebanese labor force from illegal competition, under penalty of legal prosecution. And take precautionary administrative measures against them and their institutions.”

Earlier this year, the Association of Muslim Scholars in Lebanon issued a statement rejecting the racist discourse towards the displaced Syrians in Lebanon, and affirmed that deporting or handing over the displaced who opposes the regime is a major sin and a moral and legal crime that amounts to premeditated murder and crimes against humanity.

She noted that the issue of refugees and displaced persons is an international, Arab, Islamic responsibility, and popular and official Lebanon, Arab and Islamic countries and the world embraced the refugees and displaced persons gratefully despite mistakes and shortcomings, and stressed that the tyrant who killed, abused, displaced and destroyed should not go unpunished, and certainly should not be rewarded with normalization. relations with him.

And the spokeswoman for the High Commissioner for Refugees in Lebanon, Lisa Abu Khaled, confirmed that cash assistance does not benefit all Syrian refugees, indicating that 43 percent of them receive cash assistance for the family in the amount of two million and five hundred thousand Lebanese pounds and not in dollars, and there are those who benefit from the food program. The global sum of one million and 100 thousand LL per month, stressing that the Swiss do not receive dollars at all since the beginning of their displacement.