والمنظمة والمفوضية تبذلان كل جهد ممكن من أجل توثيق العلاقة بين الهجرات وطلبات اللجوء، إلى جانب قيامهما معاً بإيجاد الوسائل اللازمة لحل المشاكل التي تبرز في مجالات اختصاص كل منهما.
IOM and UNHCR were developing shared tools to better address the link between migration and asylum and to find mutually agreed responses to problems in their respective fields of competence and expertise. While national and international laws differentiated between asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants, in reality the situation was often blurred.