According to Germany’s new Special Commissioner for Migration Joachim Stamp, the German government plans to asses its options for transferring asylum procedures to the African continent. Meanwhile, Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants the government to also focus on deportations of people with no right to remain in the country.
A deadly knife attack on a German regional train has triggered a debate on deportation laws and their application. The suspect, a Palestinian, was living in Germany despite his criminal record.
The number of cases of church asylum has been on the rise in Berlin in recent months. The German capital has a long history of hosting people seeking protection in churches.
Serbia's increasingly restrictive border policies are having an overall impact on the Balkan migration route. Austrian authorities say they have noted a significant drop of about 70% of people being intercepted while trying to enter the country using irregular means since mid-December.
There is growing controversy about government plans to build a new asylum processing center at Berlin's new airport. A group of refugee charities has now issued a statement against the so-called entry and exit center, saying it amounts to little more than a detention facility.
The German government has confirmed that its current approach to church asylum will continue as it is. Since a changeover in leadership last year, there were hopes that the practice of church asylum would become more liberalized.
A German nun, accused of abetting illegal immigration and fined for granting church asylum to two Nigerian women last year, has been acquitted by a district court.
Roughly one third of all rejected asylum applications in Germany succeed when launching an appeal against the original decision after their appeal is examined by administrative courts. This can cost taxpayers in Germany up to 25 million euros annually.
Since the agreement was signed between Britain and Rwanda enabling Britain to send asylum seekers to Rwanda to be processed, more and more migrants have been asking about how to seek asylum in France. Here InfoMigrants explains how the asylum process works for those camping in northern France.
A rejected Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker living in Denmark was subjected to physical force during her deportation, a video circulating on social media appears to show. Danish law allows the use of physical force against persons without legal residence status when they resist being deportated.
She fled North Macedonia after she was assaulted, urinated on and almost raped. But German authorities have designated her home country as "safe" — and now they want to deport her and her family.
If an asylum claim is 'inadmissible' it generally means it won't be considered. This is usually because the authorities believe another country is responsible for the claim.