EU: Over 1 million asylum applications in 2023 – Seven-year record – 2024-03-02 09:49:20

EU: Over 1 million asylum applications in 2023 – Seven-year record
 – 2024-03-02 09:49:20

In 2023, the EU accepted 1.14 million asylum applications, reaching the highest level in seven years, according to a statement from the EU Asylum Agency (EUAA). Specifically, in 2023, EU+ countries submitted more than 1,140,000 asylum applications, an 18% increase compared to 2022. The country that received the most applications in absolute numbers was Germany … Read more

Bavarian Government Introduces Controversial Payment Card for Refugees: Constitutional Issues and Nationwide Impact

Bavarian Government Introduces Controversial Payment Card for Refugees: Constitutional Issues and Nationwide Impact

End stop Free State: Here the payment card is even harder (Augsburg, August 2, 2015) At the introduction the The Bavarian state government is a pioneer in payment cards for refugees. What does this mean for asylum seekers there? The way the new government has planned the payment card, it should only be available for … Read more

House of Lords Votes to Delay Ratification of Controversial Asylum Seeker Plan

House of Lords Votes to Delay Ratification of Controversial Asylum Seeker Plan

The House of Lords of the British Parliament has voted to delay the ratification of a deal aimed at overcoming a legal block on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan. The much-discussed plan involves asylum seekers who arrive on England’s south coast in small rubber boats being sent to Rwanda. The proposal has met with a lot … Read more

Record Number of Failed Asylum Seekers from Morocco Deported in 2023

Record Number of Failed Asylum Seekers from Morocco Deported in 2023

ANNP Marechaussees at the registration center in Ter Apel NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 04:33 In the first eleven months of 2023, 250 failed asylum seekers from Morocco were deported to their own country. That is the highest number in ten years, the Return and Departure Service reports to De Telegraaf. Another 700 people should follow within six … Read more

Belgian Ministry of Asylum and Migration Refuses to Pay Fines Leading to Seizure of Coffee Machine and Freezer

Belgian Ministry of Asylum and Migration Refuses to Pay Fines Leading to Seizure of Coffee Machine and Freezer

VRT NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 17:33 A bailiff has seized a coffee machine and a freezer from the Belgian Ministry for Asylum and Migration. The reason is the refusal of State Secretary Nicole de Moor to pay penalty payments for not receiving asylum seekers. Belgium is trying to limit the influx of asylum seekers by discouraging asylum … Read more

Municipality of Westerwolde Files Lawsuit Against COA Over Asylum Seeker Overcrowding in Ter Apel

Municipality of Westerwolde Files Lawsuit Against COA Over Asylum Seeker Overcrowding in Ter Apel

ANPA asylum seekers arrive at the registration center in Ter Apel NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 06:00 Isa Huizing editor Domestic Isa Huizing editor Domestic The municipality of Westerwolde, to which Ter Apel belongs, wants to enforce in court today that the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) adheres to the agreement of a maximum … Read more

The Importance of Obtaining an Identification Card for Undocumented Immigrants in New York City

The Importance of Obtaining an Identification Card for Undocumented Immigrants in New York City

Read transcript long road to resistance.residence.violeta bastardo explains to us why it is important to obtain that document, and what benefitvioleta: it is an identification card like this, with it, undocumented immigrants seeking asylum can obtain access to the services available in the city, also a school tuition, to So you have an idea, so … Read more