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.
In 2020, a monk in Germany decided to take in a rejected asylum seeker from the Palestinian Territories who was facing deportation. For years, the legality of such an interpretation of church asylum remained unclear. Now, for the first time ever in Germany, there is a final ruling on this kind of case, which could serve as a legal precedent for future trials.
Over the past twelve months Germany deported more than a hundred Bangladeshi migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected. Many other failed asylum seekers have voluntarily left the European country with financial support from the authorities in this period.
Data provided by the Italian government showed that in 2021 only one in two migrants held at Italian repatriation centers was actually repatriated. Italy's National Guarantor for the Rights of Detained Persons has criticized the data.
Two years on probation and a monetary fine: That's the latest court ruling in Germany on a church asylum case. A pastor had granted protection to a young, apparently well-integrated Iranian migrant. The clergyman might get pardoned.