The most asylum applications on record - but also, perhaps, the beginning of a crackdown under Labour. There were 108,138 people claiming asylum in 2024, beating a record that had stood for more ...

BARCELONA, Spain — The European Union’s asylum agency on Monday released its annual report for the 27-nation bloc, plus Norway and Switzerland. Under international refugee law, people have the ...

One Venezuelan asylum-seeker, charged only with being in the U.S. illegally, was released by a judge who found no evidence of criminal history or gang ties, though ICE could still take him into ...

Migrants will continue to be housed in asylum hotels and other temporary accommodation for years to come, the Treasury has admitted. Before winning power at last July's general election ...

At the British Embassy, a security guard handed asylum-seekers a pamphlet reading “Emergency Help for British People.” The Swiss consulate told the group they would have to reach out to the ...

Migration politics have been roiling the bloc as mainstream parties are embracing harsher rhetoric on asylum-seekers and immigrants in a flailing bid to contain the rise of far-right populist ...

The film follows an undocumented Mexican woman and restaurant owner whose asylum petition is denied, leaving her with just 30 days to self-deport. Synopsis reads: When Xochit is pursued by US ...

But five of them told Human Rights Watch that they and others consistently told US and Costa Rican officials that they had fled persecution and were seeking asylum. Those interviewed described ...

Labour is proposing sending failed asylum seekers to detention centres like this one in Shengjin, Albania (Picture: AFP or licensors) Labour is reportedly considering plans to send failed asylum ...

The number of people claiming asylum in the UK in 2024 has reached its highest level since records began in 1979, Home Office figures show. According to data published on Thursday, 108,138 people ...

He was referring to the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, which is due to come into force in 2026. Poland voted against the pact, arguing that its planned distribution of migrants within the EU was ...

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