anwar ashraf
  • Italy

Fact Check: The Salvini decree explained

How does the Salvini decree effect asylum seekers and refugees in Italy? Our latest #FactCheck video explains just that.

Resettlement is when refugees in a country of asylum are transferred to a third country that agrees to admit them
  • Canada
  • Germany
  • Lebanon

Fact check: The UNHCR resettlement program

You might have heard of the resettlement program that relocates refugees to another country. Many people wonder: How does it work, and who gets chosen?
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Syria

FactCheck: How can refugees send money to their family back home?

Many migrants and refugees are sending money to family members in their home country. But what's the best way to do this? What are the legal restrictions? Sertan Sanderson explains everything you need to know in the latest episode of FactCheck.

If the refugee seeks to obtain a new nationality, one different from that of the state which granted them protection, protection can be revoked
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy

Fact check: Can you lose your refugee status?

Refugee status and subsidiary protection are not necessarily permanent. Under what circumstance can these statuses be revoked?

Everyone has a right to appeal against a negative deecision
  • France
  • Germany

Fact check: What rights do rejected asylum seekers have?

Even if your application for asylum has been rejected in Germany, you have certain rights. What are these?

The general idea is that all children have to continue their compulsory schooling at least until the age of about 15 and 16
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy

Fact check: School systems in Europe

All kids have to go to school in Europe – including those of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers. But the public school systems vary from country to country, and can be quite confusing. Here's a short overview.

The idea of the regulation is to provide more legal certainty - not only to asylum seekers but also to the companies and organizations that provide them with vocational training
  • Germany

Fact check: What's the 3+2 regulation?

The 3+2 regulation allows asylum seekers to stay in Germany to complete vocational training, even when their asylum application is rejected. Here's a look at how it works.

If your asylum decision is negative, you lose your right to stay in Germany and may be forced to return to you country
  • Germany

Fact check: Who gets deported from Germany?

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer wants to introduce tougher deportation laws in Germany and make it easier to send criminal foreigners back to their home countries. Who exactly gets deported from Germany?

The treaty says that it hopes to eliminate all forms of discrimination against migrants
  • United States

Fact check: The UN Compact for Migration

163 countries have adopted the UN Global Compact for Migration, a non-binding treaty that outlines standards on safe, orderly and regular migration. Critics fear that the agreement could threaten the sovereignty of nations when it comes to immigration. What's true?

The new decree is called the 'Salvini decree'
  • Italy

Fact check: Italy's new immigration decree

Italy's new security and immigration decree is intended to regulate immigration and public security. It has been pushed by the interior minister, Matteo Salvini. So what will change for migrants if it is passed?

Ammar Abdal was internally displaced in Iraq for three years before coming to Germany
  • Germany
  • Iraq

#MessageBackHome: 'Fight terror with culture and art, not a weapon'

Ammar Abdal is a 35-year-old painter from Iraq who came to Germany as a refugee in 2017. In his art, he documents the terror and crimes of the 'Islamic State'. He wants to "fight their terror with a weapon made by culture and art, not with a real weapon."

"The most difficult thing in Germany is the language", says lawyer Khaled Ammhan
  • Germany
  • Syria

#MessageBackHome: 'We have to work for peace'

Kahled Ammhan used to be a lawyer in Latakia, Syria. Then he fled the war and has lived in Germany since 2015. He now teaches Arabic to students. What does he miss about his former life?