Stages in the procedure for obtaining status

The first step in this procedure is a written application to the Ministry of Interior. The applying woman may be summoned for an interview and requested to submit documents. If, as a result of the woman’s application, a negative response is received (it is possible that the correspondence may be interpreted in more than one way), the second step is to submit a written application to the abovementioned inter-ministerial committee. This procedure, too, is characterized by long correspondence, which is often accompanied by a request for an interview or a hearing.

Up to March 2011, the next step, in case of a negative reply, was an administrative application to the district court, where success chances are significantly higher than those at the Ministry of Interior.

Since March 2011, there is an application procedure number 1.5.0001. According to this procedure, following rejection of an application for status in Israel by the visas department or the inter-ministerial committee, and preceding an administrative application to the court, an appeal needs to be submitted to the appeal committee.

Note: the reoccurrence of the term “may” is not coincidental. In spite of the procedures in place, each case may receive a different reply. Thus, for example, in one case an immediate negative reply may be received, while in a similar case the applicant may be summoned for an interview.