Daline Salahie

Dec 10, 2024 | infomigrants.net | Daline Salahie |Marion MacGregor

While the situation continues to evolve at rapid speed, German authorities have already announced that they will stop processing Syrian asylum applications. This won’t affect Syrians who are already in the asylum system or who are settled in Germany, but they have another reason to be worried – There are around 330,000 Syrians who have subsidiary protection, a temporary status which can be lifted as soon as the conditions in Syria are considered safe enough for them to return.

Mar 4, 2024 | infomigrants.net | Marion MacGregor |Daline Salahie

"My name is Rakan. I'm from Syria, from the city of Ain al-Arab. I'm 20 years old." Rakan Ismael is on a video call with InfoMigrants from a reception center near Finland's eastern border. His mother tongue is Kurdish, but he is doing his best to speak Arabic. From the Joutseno center in Lappeenranta, Rakan explains how, almost two months ago, he was arrested with three other young Syrians in the town of Parikkala, close to the Russian border, on suspicion of trying to enter the country illegally.