The Afghan asylum seeker had been operating in Great Britain as a Russian spy for years, working for the British Foreign Office and probably also for the British secret services, The Times revealed.more
Around half of British workers do not earn the salary required to bring partners from overseas to the UK under new Home Office family visa changes, research suggests.more
In the UK, a manhunt is underway for the second day for an Afghan asylum seeker who poured a corrosive liquid on a woman, her two daughters and several bystanders. At the same time, questions are being asked about how it happened that the Afghan, who had previously been convicted of sexual crimes, was granted asylum.more
The initial list of illegal immigrants prepared by the British Home Office who could be sent to Rwanda first includes 5,664 people, the Daily Express revealed today.more
I decided to raise the price of visas because it turns out that Polish visas were among the cheapest in the EU, so it is not surprising that those willing in Africa or Asia went to the Polish consulate. It was simply cheaper with us," explained the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski in an interview published on Wyborcza.pl.more
UK's population will reach 73.7 million in 2036, an increase of 6.6 million - or 9.9 percent. - compared to the 2021 figure, with as much as 6.1 million of that increase due to immigration, the ONS statistics office said in a forecast released yesterday.more
New minimum wage thresholds for foreign worker visas will come into force "within weeks", the Home Secretary announced on Tuesday.
The Government said in December that there would be a wave of new restrictions on people coming to Britain, and their family members, in a bid to bring down legal immigration. more
Parliamentarians voted to reform the Citizenship Act, making naturalization faster and easier. It will also be possible to retain a second citizenship, the dpa news agency reported.more
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak assured yesterday that he is ready to ignore the interventions of the European Court of Human Rights preventing the deportation of illegal immigrants to Rwanda. He also called on the House of Lords not to block the bill on deportation adopted by the House of Commons.more
Last night, the British House of Commons voted in support of a draft bill that is highly controversial and causes great divisions within the ruling Conservative Party, which would enable the deportation of illegal immigrants to Rwanda. Meanwhile, the president of Rwanda commented on this matter.more
The adoption of a law fundamental to the political future of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak allowing the deportation of illegal immigrants to Rwanda has again come into question after a larger than expected rebellion within his Conservative Party.more
The Swedish government intends to inform immigrants about their duty to defend the country. Ultimately, the topic of the threat of war is to be included in the syllabus of a compulsory course on Swedish society for newcomers.more
The UK House of Commons today began a two-day debate on a highly controversial and hugely divisive bill within the ruling Conservative Party to allow the deportation of illegal immigrants to Rwanda.more
Six people from Rwanda have been granted asylum in the UK since the two countries signed an agreement in April 2022 to return illegal immigrants to the African country, the i daily reported today, pointing out that this undermines the government's claims that Rwanda is a safe country.more
The first people seen crossing the English Channel in a small boats in 2024 have arrived on Kent shores, nearly a month after the last arrivals. A group believed to be migrants were seen arriving in Dover after being picked up in a Border Force vessel on Saturday morning.more
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is likely to delay ruling on orders halting deportation flights from the UK to Rwanda and may be "tempted" to drag this out until after the House of Commons elections, the Daily Telegraph wrote yesterday.more
Not a single boat with illegal immigrants has entered the UK across the Channel for the past 25 days, the longest such period since February/March 2020, according to Home Office figures released yesterday.more
In the Netherlands, over 5 thousand labor migrants from Eastern Europe, primarily from Poland, are homeless - reported the daily "De Telegraaf". The newspaper warns that some of them are forced to sleep in tents.more
The percentage of immigrants receiving asylum in the UK is higher than in most European countries, and has more than doubled since Brexit, reports the Daily Telegraph. Poland is also among the countries with the highest percentage of positively considered applications.more
Britain is insufficiently coordinating efforts with France to reduce the number of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel on small boats, according to a report by the French Court of Auditors published yesterday.more
Fewer migrants arrived in the Netherlands last year than in 2022, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has notified. A total of 336,900 such people arrived in the Netherlands in 2023, compared to 404,000 the year before.more
The detention of 2,000 migrants who entered Poland through Slovakia has deterred more. The pressure from the Balkan route has eased, but Russia and Belarus are preparing new routes, "Rzeczpospolita" reports today.more
The number of migrants crossing the Channel has fallen year-on-year for the first time since current records began. Government figures show the total arrivals in 2023 were down by more than a third on 2022.more
At the end of 2022, approximately 1.523 million permanent residents of the country were temporarily staying outside Poland - the Central Statistical Office reported. As he explained, it was about 24 thousand. less than in 2021more
"There are several reasons why Rwanda is willing to accept illegal immigrants coming to the UK - money, international standing, reputation - but whether the deal will help its image is as uncertain as whether deportations will begin at all," he says. Ben Shepherd, Africa analyst at the London think tank Chatham House.more