Editing Refugee (section)

=== Durable solutions ===
The residency status in the host country whilst under temporary UNHCR protection is very uncertain as refugees are only granted temporary visas that have to be regularly renewed. Rather than only safeguarding the rights and basic well-being of refugees in the camps or in urban settings on a temporary basis the UNHCR's ultimate goal is to find one of the three durable solutions for refugees: integration, repatriation, resettlement.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unhcr.org/solutions.html|title=Refugees solutions|website=UNHCR|access-date=26 August 2018}}</ref>

====Integration and naturalisation====
{{Main|Naturalization}}
Local integration is aiming at providing the refugee with the permanent right to stay in the country of asylum, including, in some situations, as a naturalized citizen. It follows the formal granting of refugee status by the country of asylum. It is difficult to quantify the number of refugees who settled and integrated in their first country of asylum and only the number of naturalisations can give an indication.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} In 2014 Tanzania granted citizenship to 162,000 refugees from Burundi and in 1982 to 32,000 Rwandan refugees.{{sfn|Markus|2014}} Mexico naturalised 6,200 Guatemalan refugees in 2001.{{sfn|Goldberg|2001}}

====Voluntary return====
{{Main|Voluntary return}}

Voluntary return of refugees into their country of origin, in safety and dignity, is based on their free will and their informed decision. In the last couple of years parts of or even whole refugee populations were able to return to their home countries: e.g. 120,000 Congolese refugees returned from the Republic of Congo to the DRC,{{sfn|Schmitt|2014a}} 30,000 Angolans returned home from the DRC{{sfn|Schmitt|2014b}} and Botswana, Ivorian refugees returned from Liberia, Afghans from Pakistan, and Iraqis from Syria. In 2013, the governments of Kenya and Somalia also signed a tripartite agreement facilitating the repatriation of refugees from Somalia.{{sfn|Nairobi to open|2014}} The UNHCR and the IOM offer assistance to refugees who want to return voluntarily to their home countries. Many developed countries also have Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) programmes for asylum seekers who want to go back or were [[Asylum seeker#Refusal of asylum|refused asylum]].

====Third country resettlement====
{{Main|Third country resettlement}}

Third country resettlement involves the assisted transfer of refugees from the country in which they have sought asylum to a [[safe third country]] that has agreed to admit them as refugees. This can be for permanent settlement or limited to a certain number of years. It is the third durable solution and it can only be considered once the two other solutions have proved impossible.{{sfn|What is resettlement?}}{{sfn|Resettlement: new beginning}} The UNHCR has traditionally seen resettlement as the least preferable of the "durable solutions" to refugee situations.{{sfn|Understanding Resettlement to|2004}} However, in April 2000 the then UN High Commissioner for Refugees, [[Sadako Ogata]], stated "Resettlement can no longer be seen as the least-preferred durable solution; in many cases it is the ''only'' solution for refugees."{{sfn|Understanding Resettlement to|2004}}