Resettlement must become more open and fair. This has the effect of leaving a host State to deal with those refugees which other States decline. A similar problem arises when dealing with persons who are excluded from refugee status but who cannot be returned home, for example on account of risk of torture. A holistic plan must provide for them. Some States require their own criteria to be applied.
Some States prepare their own dossier.
Some make their own determination of refugee status. Some apply their own immigration criteria relating to health, wealth, education and language abilities. The resulting duplication of effort is also a duplication of cost. If resettlement is to become a more generally accepted international tool, the processes will have to become at least multilateral. In the view of the Inter-Church Committee for Refugees, all States must to some extent share all responsibilities associated with refugees political, financial and human.