That was the gist of a question posed in the German Parliament towards the end of February by a group of parliamentarians from the Left party, Die Linke. In detail, the inquiry asked whether a higher proportion of Iranians, than other nations, were having their attempts at asylum refused in Germany and if so why?
Germany lacks skilled workers especially in the field of elderly care. Can refugees and asylum seekers access the vocational training necessary for the job and how does it work? InfoMigrants takes a look at the rules and regulations.
More and more unaccompanied and separated children are trying to join their parents in Europe. But the laws and the criteria for family reunification are getting tougher in many countries, the International Social Services Switzerland (ISS) says.
In the wake of the migrant influx to Germany since 2015, a plethora of support websites, apps and initiatives have sprung up to help them with matters ranging from the asylum process and language courses to apprenticeships, integration courses and health-related matters. To help navigate the jungle of available services, we have compiled a list with some of the most useful ones.
Refugee status and subsidiary protection as well as resettlement and humanitarian protection programs are not necessarily permanent. So when can these statuses be revoked?
Migrants seeking asylum in Paris will be able to receive free legal aid from students at the prestigious Professional Bar School through a program set to begin next week. The students will help with tasks such as writing up statements, and preparing for interviews with the refugee office or for court hearings. The initiative is aimed as much at providing vulnerable migrants with essential legal help, as it is at sensitizing the country’s future lawyers to the situation of asylum seekers.
The German Federal Ministry of the Interior intends to withdraw the tolerated stay permits of some failed asylum seekers who make falsified claims about their background.
The Dutch coalition government has agreed a compromise deal granting asylum to several hundred young migrants who have been in the Netherlands for at least five years. The deal reached late on Tuesday enabled the government to avoid a political crisis.
Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, has voted in favor of declaring four additional countries "safe countries of origin." However, the Bundesrat, the upper house, still has to ratify the decision. The addition of Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Georgia to list of safe nations is not without controversy.
The Austrian government wants to make it easier to deport migrants who have committed lesser crimes. The country also plans to push for similar changes across the European Union.
About 50 percent of all people leaving Turkey because they feel politically persecuted seek shelter in Germany. In 2018, there were more than 10,000 asylum applications from Turks in Germany. About two-fifths of applicants were issued some form of protection.
The German NGO Sea-Watch reported that migrants onboard its rescue vessel have started to accept food again, but their physical and mental health has taken a terrible toll. The migrants currently off the Maltese coast have been stranded at sea for 18 days.