Helsinki 1975 Until members of the same family are reunited meetings and contacts between them may take place in accordance with the modalities for contacts on the basis of family ties. The participating States will support the efforts of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies concerned with the problems of family reunification. They confirm that the presentation of an application concerning family reunification will not modify the rights and obligations of the applicant or of members of his family. The receiving participating State will take appropriate care with regard to employment for persons from other participating States who take up permanent residence in that State in connection with family reunification with its citizens and see that they are afforded opportunities equal to those enjoyed by its own citizens for education, medical assistance and social security. (c) Marriage between Citizens of Different States The participating States will examine favourably and on the basis of humanitarian considerations requests for exit or entry permits from persons who have decided to marry a citizen from another participating State. The processing and issuing of the documents required for the above purposes and for the marriage will be in accordance with the provisions accepted for family reunification. In dealing with requests from couples from different participating States, once married, to enable them and the minor children of their marriage to transfer their permanent residence to a State in which either one is normally a resident, the participating States will also apply the provisions accepted for family reunification. (d) Travel for Personal or Professional Reasons The participating States intend to facilitate wider travel by their citizens for personal or professional reasons and to this end they intend in particular: • gradually to simplify and to administer flexibly the procedures for exit and entry; • to ease regulations concerning movement of citizens from the other participating States in their territory, with due regard to security requirements. They will endeavour gradually to lower, where necessary, the fees for visas and official travel documents. They intend to consider, as necessary, means — including, in so far as appropriate, the conclusion of multilateral or bilateral consular conventions or other relevant agreements or understandings — for the improvement of arrangements to provide consular services, including legal and consular assistance. 12 OSCE Human Dimension Commitments