administrative backlog

Migrants enter a camp for refugees on Cyprus | Photo: picture-alliance / AP Photo/ P. Karadijas
  • Cyprus

Frustration boils over at Cyprus migrant camp

Asylum seekers in the Pournara camp in Cyprus say it is overcrowded and feels "like a prison." Pandemic restrictions have made the conditions worse, causing friction between groups of migrants.

COVID-19 — also known as coronavirus — is spreading throughout the globe | Photo: picture-alliance/AP Photo/ NIAID-RML
  • Italy
  • Greece
  • Germany

Which migrant services in Europe are suspended or reduced due to COVID-19?

Many European countries have introduced states of emergency in order to deal with the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. In many countries that has affected migrant, asylum and refugee services too. Here is our rundown of changes in Greece, Italy, Germany and France.

Migrants waiting to be registered in a camp set up for refugees from Afghanistan near Moria on the island of Lesbos, Greece | Credit: Photo archive/EPA
  • Greece

Greece considers extending residence permits for migrants

The Greek Migration Policy Ministry is reportedly considering extending the residence permits of migrants and refugees staying in Greece due to a huge backlog of applications that has built up in the wake of its IT system breaking down last month.