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1 month ago | 
infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson
In the past six months, protection status revocation proceedings were initiated on a total of 2,157 cases of people taking temporary journeys home to their country of origin, a spokesperson for BAMF told Germany's weekly Welt am Sonntag newspaper. The two countries with the most cases of such unauthorized trips were Iraq and Syria, with 762 and 734 instances, respectively. These were followed by Afghanistan (240), Iran (115) cases and Turkey (31).
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1 month ago | 
infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Wednesday (April 16) that a total of 175,412 Syrian nationals had returned to their home country between December 9 and April 13 in a "voluntary, safe, dignified and orderly" manner. On the social media platform X, the minister added that "the date of December 8, 2024 marks the ending of an era and the beginning of a new one," referring to the date of Syria's liberation from Assad.
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1 month ago | 
infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson
The top court in Leipzig, Germany's Federal Administrative Court, has ruled in a case that involved two men with different nationalities and backgrounds, who had initially submitted asylum requests in Greece, which were approved there. However, the two men later made their way to Germany, where they lodged additional asylum applications. These were rejected on the grounds that they had already been granted asylum in an EU country.
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1 month ago | 
infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson
British officials are reportedly working on a pilot scheme with their French counterparts, which would see the UK accepting individual asylum seekers from France who have legitimate asylum claims in Britain, in exchange for people who have already reached the UK using irregular means, such as crossing the English Channel in small boats.
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1 month ago | 
infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson
French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau visited his Moroccan counterpart Abdelouafi Laftit on Monday (April 14) to discuss migration, the fight against organized crime and security cooperation issues between the two nations.
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1 month ago | 
infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson
During an hour-long interview on the Caren Miosga show on Germany's public broadcaster ARD on Sunday evening (April 13), Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz highlighted further details of the incoming government's plans regarding immigration and asylum. "There has been a lot of change in Europe. Many attempts [at change] failed in Germany however in recent years.
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1 month ago | 
infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson
Europol stated that around 300 gendarmerie officials in France and an unspecified number of federal police in Italy carried out a coordinated operation on April 01, which resulted in a total of 24 arrests of suspected migrant smugglers in both countries, France and Italy. Authorities searched 24 properties for evidence and seized three vehicles linked to the case as well as a number of communication devices.
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1 month ago | 
infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson
The island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean is regarded as part of the European Union, as it is a French overseas territory. However, it is also a highly impoverished area. It is estimated that there are now more immigrants than actual native inhabitants of the island. Many foreigners reached the island territory by using irregular means over the years in hopes of eventually be granted residence and later citizenship status in an EU country.
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2 months ago | 
infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson
Last month, an agreement was reached resulting in a draft law to move 4,000 minors from the Canary Islands to the mainland to ease the burden on the island group. That law is yet to be passed following parliamentary processes, and could at the earliest be signed into law next week -- if no amendments and changes are required, reported the Spanish news agency EFE.
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2 months ago | 
infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson
Thuringia plans to house rejected asylum seekers from certain safe countries of origin in initial reception facilities in the municipalities of Suhl and Eisenberg until they can successfully be deported. The federal state's Ministry of Migration in Erfurt said that asylum seekers from the following countries will be affected immediately by the decision: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Ghana, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Senegal and Serbia.
