Foreigners who fail a French test will not be deported, the head of the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII) has said. The mandatory language test is part of a set of measures included in a national immigration reform bill.
Turkey has announced plans to tighten conditions for foreigners to be eligible for residence permits. New rules to be introduced next month will especially affect Syrian refugees and other migrants in certain neighborhoods.
The British sea rescue charity Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) remains defiant amid criticism following a rescue operation in the Channel shortly before new restrictive immigration legislation was published by the government.
African migrants should be offered temporary work permits in exchange for a cash deposit, a German panel of experts has said. They say the measure would reduce illegal immigration and encourage migrants to return home.
The number of migrants and refugees stuck on the Greek islands has peaked at above 40,000. The Greek government hopes that the introduction of new laws next year will help bring the numbers down — by deporting many asylum seekers back to Turkey.
The Slovenian Constitutional Court has scrapped an article of an immigration law that allowed the country to limit foreigners' access after a vote in parliament in the event of a migrant crisis.
The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia has deported three men from Bosnia Herzegovina, who had been classified as Islamist threats.
Persons who have been granted protection in Germany will have to actively provide information and help in other ways as well when their cases are reassessed. Before this recent change to the law, asylum seekers did not have to partake in such procedures.
The ECRE, a pan-European alliance of NGOs, denounced that asylum seekers in the United Kingdom are being deprived of their right to study. This is following the enactment of a legislative change to immigration law.
With the Italian elections only days away, a civil rights organization has published a guide to clarify political parties' stance on the issue of citizenship law reform.