residency

• Italy

ASGI, the Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration, prepared a document to help foreign residents navigate the system and return to Italy after the coronavirus lockdown. Francesco Mason is one of a group of lawyers that worked on this paper. What’s written in law is one thing, he explains, but how things are working in practice is another and it could have dramatic consequences for foreign residents in Italy.

• France

In France, getting an appointment at the prefecture to apply for or renew a residence permit has become a near impossible task. The Defender of Rights has called on the interior ministry to take concrete measures to improve the situation.

• Italy
• Germany
• France

Some believe that if they give birth on European soil, they will somehow receive a residency permit or some form of protection. Let's look at what the law says about this.

• Italy

Undocumented workers in Italy can be regularized under a new decree starting on June 1. Applications can be filed until July 15.

• Netherlands
• Israel
• Iran

Olympian Taekwondo athlete Kimia Alizadeh defected from her home country because of its treatment of women. With her visa renewed, she is hoping to go to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics under the German flag.

• Italy

Italian authorities in Parma have arrested seven people on charges of aiding and abetting clandestine migration. The individuals are accused of having forged tax documents to help non-EU citizens needing to convert or renew residence permits and of having arranged transfers from Italy to other EU countries.

• Spain
• Senegal

An undocumented migrant from Senegal was granted residency in Spain on Friday after he was celebrated as a hero for having saved a disabled man from a burning building last month.

• France

Over the last year, the so-called Gilets Noirs - or Black Vests - have been holding demonstrations in France to bring the rights of undocumented migrants to public attention. But who are they?

• Somalia
• Germany

After nearly ten years in Germany, athlete, professional mechanic and refugee Mansor Farah wants to become a citizen in his new home country. There’s just one problem – he has no official identity.

• Turkey

Close to 21,000 unregistered Syrian refugees and "illegal migrants" have been expelled from Istanbul since mid-July after the authorities had issued a deadline for them to leave the city and return to the provinces where they had registered. An additional 300,000 Syrians living in Istanbul face expulsion.

• Greece

Migrants and refugees in Greece are set to benefit from a much smoother and less time-consuming process in obtaining residence permits after the country's Migration Policy Ministry announced that the process for foreign nationals living and working in Greece will be digitalized.

• Italy

The court of appeals in Brescia, a city in northern Italy, has ruled that migrants in the city's municipalities are discriminated against through ''disproportionate increases in costs for certificates required'' to reside legally in Italy.