{"id":407,"date":"2024-02-09T13:56:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T13:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ethiopia\/?page_id=407"},"modified":"2024-07-29T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T11:39:20","slug":"family-reunification","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ethiopia\/leaving-ethiopia\/family-reunification\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuniting with my family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#cccccc30\">Family reunification procedures, and who might qualify for family reunification, are established by each country.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fdf799\"><strong>If you wish to reunite with family members outside Ethiopia, keep in mind that:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>UNHCR does not handle visa applications for family reunification. Submit your application through the established procedure of the country in which your family is.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UNHCR does not make decisions on family reunification applications and has no influence on the decision-making process. We&#8217;re here to guide you through the steps and provide information to the best of our ability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-978856eddb0dbb3edd7f444bc817d162\" style=\"color:#0072bc\">Who can help you in the family reunification process?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Check Eligibility Criteria:<\/strong> Understand the family reunification procedures and eligibility criteria set by the specific country you are interested in.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you are a refugee or asylum-seeker in\u202f<strong> <\/strong>Ethiopia,&nbsp; aiming to reunite with your family in <strong>another country<\/strong>, you can reach out to the UNHCR family reunification focal points in these locations by <a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">selecting the country of interest on the Help homepage<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you&#8217;re seeking information on a country not listed on Help or cannot find that information, visit the government website and search for &#8220;family reunification.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you cannot find the information you are looking for or have queries that are not addressed on specific country pages, you can:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>send an email to our family reunification mailbox <a>ethadfru@unhcr.org<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>attend UNHCR counselling sessions at the JRS premises in Kirkos, Addis Ababa every Wednesday at 10:00AM to speak directly with UNHCR staff and get personalized assistance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family reunification procedures, and who might qualify for family reunification, are established by each country. If you wish to reunite with family members outside Ethiopia, keep in mind that: Who can help you in the family reunification process?&nbsp; If you cannot find the information you are looking for or have queries that are not addressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"parent":393,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-407","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions\/644"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}