In March of the current year (2014) the "Immigration and Social Integration Code" was voted for the first time in Parliament [Law 4521/2014 (OGG 1.4.2014)], the effective date of which is 1.6.2014. Objective of this new law is, on the one hand, the regulation in one single text of the multiple, since 1991, laws, presidential decrees and other regulatory acts which applied to this day, within the framework of our country's immigration policy, and on the other hand, the modernization of said policy and the simplification and speeding up of the applicable process of residence and work permits by the competent authorities.