The German Bundestag has passed a controversial law on family reunification for refugees with subsidiary protection. 370 deputies voted in favor of the document, 279 were against, and three…
Almost 32,000 foreigners received refugee status in France in 2017, the French Ministry of the Interior reported, publishing updated migration statistics. Last year, more than 100,000 migrants…
In the first three months of this year, almost every second deportation from Germany of persons whose asylum applications were rejected fell through. To avoid such situations in the future, special…
Last year, 112,211 foreigners received the coveted German citizenship. However, more than half of them, namely 68,918 people, did not renounce their previous citizenship, officially failing to…
A scandal is widening in Germany over the illegal granting of refugee status to thousands of illegal immigrants. The leadership of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) promises that…
In Switzerland, a simplified naturalization procedure has been in effect for three months for young foreigners of the third generation, i.e., grandchildren of migrants who were already born in…
The number of applications for asylum in the United States from Russian citizens in 2017 reached a 24-year high. Compared to the previous year, there is an increase of almost 40 percent. U.S…
Last year, Germany granted more positive asylum decisions than all other EU countries combined. This was reported by the EU statistical office Eurostat in Luxembourg. The data refers to so-called…
The French National Assembly voted on a bill on immigration and asylum. Proposed by the Interior Minister, the bill reduces the time for processing asylum requests and simplifies the procedure for…
According to additional data from the German Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt) released last week, there have never been as many foreigners living in the Federal Republic as in…
For the whole of 2016, Germany's population reached 82.5 million citizens. At the same time, 1.865 million people arrived in the country, while 1.365 million left Germany. These official figures were…