administrative backlog

Entry area of the Conn Barracks, home of an anchor center in Geldersheim/Niederwerrn, northern Bavaria | Photo: Johannes Hardenacke, government of Lower Franconia
  • Germany

Germany: Dozens of charities demand abolition of so-called anchor centers

A broad alliance of more than 60 non-governmental organizations have called for the elimination of so-called anchor centers in Germany, which are used to accommodate asylum seekers and process their applications.

A refugee card | Photo: InfoMigrants
  • France

France: Obtaining refugee status – and the procedures that follow

Receiving refugee status does not mean the end of dealings with the French administration. From getting residence permits to housing and benefits, InfoMigrants takes you through the first bureaucratic steps as an officially-recognized refugee.

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
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece

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.

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