Gokhan Coban

State Migration Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan

On the base of approved "State Migration Program of the Republic of Azerbaijan" the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mr.Ilham Aliyev, taking into account the importance of establishment of a special state authority implementing unified state policy in the migration sphere, signed Decree on establishment of State Migration Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan № 560 dated on March 19, 2007. At the same time the Regulation of the Service was approved according to the Decree. Since the establishment of State Migration Service necessary normative legal acts have been adopted and a number of institutional and organizational measures have been taken for the purpose of enhancing state control over migration processes. In order to regulate migration processes with single and prompt procedures and facilitate the documentation, Decree on "Application of "one-stop-shop" principle in the management of migration processes" № 69 dated on March 4, 2009, was signed by Mr.Ilham Aliyev, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The application of the mentioned Decree results in management of migration processes in the country with more prompt and flexible mechanisms, provision of efficiency in this area and elimination of problems to be solved. According to the decree "one-stop-shop" principle began to be applied in the management of migration processes from July 1, 2009 and the competences of unified state authority on this principle were entrusted to State Migration Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan.