Saudi women who have fled to Germany to request asylum continue to live under threat from their families. DW spoke with four such women and human rights experts who suspect the Saudi Embassy's involvement.
The number of refugees using visa-free travel rights to enter the EU, especially from Latin America, is on the rise. Over the entire bloc, the number of new refugees has fallen to pre-2014 levels.
The processing time for asylum applications in Germany has dropped to six months on average, the German government said. Opposition party The Left criticized the duration of the procedures, which the government had intended to take no longer than three months.
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.
Asylum seekers from Turkey have much higher levels of education than the average among migrants in Germany. More than 10,600 Turkish nationals applied for asylum in Germany in 2018 – nearly half of them said they already had university degrees.
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.
Elena fled the instability of her home country Moldova, where she and her family could not find work to make ends meet. In Germany, she hopes for a better future.
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.
After his request for a stay permit for humanitarian reasons was rejected, the 25-year-old Nigerian Prince Jerry committed suicide on Monday in Tortona by throwing himself in front of a train. He was a "special, extraordinary man'', said Monsignor Giacomo Martino, head of the Migrantes association in Genoa.
Germany's refugee office could be given four years instead of three to recheck asylum approvals. The government has also paved the way for a new law to better facilitate the exchange of asylum seekers' data.
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.
A ruling by the Spanish Superior Court of Justice ordered asylum seekers who had returned to Spain under the Dublin Regulation to be newly admitted to the country's migrant reception system.