Dozens of refugees and migrants reached Italy in the morning of March 30 via humanitarian corridors. A group of 58 Syrian refugees, including 24 minors, landed at Rome’s Fiumicino airport from Lebanon. In addition, 15 asylum seekers from Iraq, Somalia and Congo arrived in Rome with a flight from Greece.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani have issued statements after their visits to countries of departure of migrants. Interior Ministry Undersecretary Nicola Molteni meanwhile announced a 'migrant flow decree' to respond to labor market demand.
Italy has welcomed more than 300 migrants via humanitarian corridors over the past two weeks. The new right-wing government has said it says 'yes' to the corridors and 'no' to traffickers and "illegal immigration".
Two groups of Afghan refugees have arrived in Italy through humanitarian corridors recently: 26 people landed in Rome from Tehran on Tuesday and 152 people from Pakistan arrived last week.
This week, a group of 51 refugees arrived in Rome. They were granted visas and scholarships through the 'UNICORE - University Corridors for Refugees project'. They will study at 33 Italian universities.
Thanks to a humanitarian corridors project, on Wednesday, 37 Syrian nationals including 13 minors arrived in Rome on a flight from Beirut. On October 28, another 29 refugees are due to arrive from Lebanon.
Humanitarian corridors bring new groups of asylum seekers to Italy and Belgium from Cyprus and Lebanon, with the last legs of the initiative carried out by the Sant' Egidio Community.
More than 300 Afghan refugees will have arrived this week in Italy via humanitarian corridors. The first arrivals touched down in Rome on Monday and Wednesday, more are expected to arrive on Thursday.
At least 95 refugees from various African countries and Syria have arrived in Italy on a UNHCR charter flight. The migrants were victims of torture and other serious forms of abuse.
The first flight of 2022 to evacuate vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers from Libya arrived in Rome this week. They are mainly from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Forty-eight people landed at Rome's Fiumicino airport on Friday, January 28 with a flight from Athens via a humanitarian corridor promoted by the Community of Sant'Egidio.
Munzir and Mustafa, a Syrian father and son, both missing limbs due to the war in their home country and featured in a now-well-known photo entitled 'Hardship of Life', are starting a new life in Italy, where they arrived Friday with their family.