Some legal frameworks of the EU immigration policy

The article attempts to analyze the nature and the main trends of the immigration policy of EU member states. The author justifies the thesis, according to which in the past decades there has been a trend towards gradual increase in the values ​​of the general policy of regulation of immigration to the region. The main attention is paid to the legal and practical measures for the integration of immigration policy into the framework of common foreign policy. The author shows that significant powers in this area are reserved by the member states, and the EU itself plays mainly a coordinating role in the actions of the member states. In other words, each country develops and sets its own principles, criteria, rules of admission of immigrants.