deportations

• France

A number of countries, especially north-west African nations, are reluctant to issue consular papers for their undocumented nationals in France. These papers are needed for deportation. The problem is particularly acute for irregular migrants on terror watch-lists who are not wanted back in their home countries. To speed up expulsions, France has threatened to reduce visas to the countries in question.

• Somalia
• Germany
• Ethiopia

Ten men were deported from Germany to Ethiopia last week. Asylum seeker support groups say deportations should be stopped during the COVID pandemic.

• Czech Republic
• Hungary
• Poland

The European Union looks poised to find broad political agreement on a new EU migration pact. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said that the 27 member states might be able to adopt the new legislation before the end of the year.

• Chad
• Sudan
• United Kingdom

At the beginning of October, a flight chartered by the British Home Office left the UK for France with just one migrant on board. Under the Dublin agreement, the UK authorities say he should pursue his asylum claim in France. On Wednesday, October 7, the man’s lawyers went to court in France to try and stop his repatriation to Africa.

• United Kingdom

According to reports in several British newspapers, the British government is planning to provide weekly flights to return migrants arriving in the UK via the Channel. The plans were revealed after a freedom of information request made by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

• Syria
• Germany
• Afghanistan

The so-called "Orderly Return Law" (Geordnete-Rückkehr-Gesetz), which was enacted in Germany a year ago has failed to achieve its objective of raising the number of deportations in the first six months of its existence.

• Germany

Last year, German authorities ordered over 11,000 foreign nationals to leave the country, that's 32% more than the year before. An expulsion is issued when a foreigner is deemed a threat to public safety.

• Germany

The number of deportations from Germany has dropped significantly during the coronavirus pandemic. Many destination states continue to uphold entry restrictions, slowing the forced return of failed asylum seekers and criminal offenders.

• Italy

The Italian guarantor for the rights of detained persons has said that the number of people in CPR migrant repatriation centers has dropped slightly but that there is still a significant number of people in hotspots.

• Germany
• Afghanistan

Germany sent back 31 rejected asylum seekers to Afghanistan. They arrived in Kabul early on Thursday morning -- just two days after the most recent attack in the Afghan capital, which claimed six lives.

• Turkey
• Syria
• Palestinian Territories

Greece has started sending back around 30 rejected asylum seekers a day to Turkey, said the Greek government on Monday.

• Italy

The first regional center for migrant repatriation on the Italian island of Sardiania opened on Monday. The facility is located in the town of Macomer, where dozens of migrants arrived recently.