18. 正规家庭团聚渠道缺少严格的资格标准。在欧洲，希望担保子女团聚的成年人往往必须达到最低收入标准，还不包括低收入移民工人，有时对移民妇女又有特别的歧视性影响。尽管欧盟通过了家庭团聚法律，但一些欧盟成员国对儿童年龄和能够担保儿童的家庭成员仍有各种限制。另外，一些移民工人因为没有目的地国居民的正规身份，所以无法正式申请家庭团聚。13
18. There is a lack of strict criteria governing eligibility for regular channels of family reunification. In Europe, there are often minimum income requirements for adults who wish to sponsor their children for family reunification, which exclude low-income migrant workers and sometimes have a particularly discriminatory effect on migrant women. Despite the European Union-wide legislation on family reunification, there remain restrictions in some European Union member States in terms of the age of the child and the family members who are able to sponsor the child. Furthermore, some migrant workers are unable to apply for official family reunification because they do not have regular status as residents of the country of destination.13