Last Change:

05/28/2025

Refugee Act, 1993

Year: 1993

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Asylum, Education, Freedom of movement, Health, Housing, land & property, Liberty & security of person, Nationality & facilitated naturalization, Social protection, Work & Workplace rights, Family life, Documentation

Description

The Refugee Act of 1993 of Liberia provides the legal framework for the recognition, protection, and rights of refugees in Liberia. It establishes the Liberian Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC) and outlines procedures for granting refugee status in line with international standards, including the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol.

Selected provisions
SECTION 11: FAMILY OF RECOGNIZED REFUGEES

(1)The Minister responsible for the administration of, the Immigration Act shall endeavour to
ensure that members of the family of a recognized refugee are permitted to enter Liberia and,
subject to the provisions of this section, to remain therein.
(2)A member of the family of a recognized refugee who has entered Liberia shall, subject to
the provisions of this Act
(a)be issued with an identity card in the form prescribed; and
(b)subject to the provisions of subsections (3) and (4), be permitted to remain within Liberia
for as long as the recognized refugee concerned is permitted so to remain.
(3)Where a member of the family of a recognized refugee is within Liberia in terms of this
section and ceases to be a member of such family by reason of his marriage, his attaining the
age of eighteen years or the cessation of his dependence upon the recognized refugee, as the
case may be, he shall be permitted to continue to remain within Liberia in accordance with
the provisions of this Act.
(4)Upon the death of a recognized refugee or upon his divorce or legal separation from any
spouse, every persons who, immediately before such death, divorce or legal separation, was
within Liberia in terms of this section as a member of the family of such recognized refugee
shall be permitted to continue to remain within Liberia in accordance with the provisions of
this Act.
(5)Nothing in this section shall prevent a member of the family of a recognized refugee or a
person who has, in terms of subsection (3) or (4), been permitted to continue to remain in
Liberia from himself applying for recognition and being recognized as a refugee in terms of
section seven.

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