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Applications for admission to the current edition of the Diversity Visa 2025 program - commonly known as the visa lottery - can be submitted only until November 7. The program issues 50,000 visas for permanent residence in the US each year.more

Chancellor Scholz's government is strengthening deportation procedures - authorities will have more powers, regulations will be tightened. The government passed a bill to this effect in Berlin yesterday, dpa reported. According to the heads of the Interior Ministry of the Länder, dealing with the crisis requires more decisive steps, describes the portal of the daily Welt.more

Germany's Interior Ministry wants to extend stationary border controls with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland for another twenty days. The police union points out that border controls cannot be maintained for long due to a lack of personnel.more

The government is set to confirm plans to end the use of 50 hotels to house migrants by January. more

Permanent immigration to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries reached its highest level ever in 2022, according to a report published yesterday by the OECD. Last year, 6.1 million people arrived in these countries for permanent residence.more

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The head of the Christian Democratic CDU party Friedrich Merz said that in Germany "naturalization must be stopped too soon." The opposition leader demands that naturalization should only be possible if applicants recognize Israel's right to exist. Anyone who does not sign this has nothing to look for in Germany, Merz said in an interview with ZDF television.more

Like Tunisian terrorist Abdesalem Lassoued, who shot dead two Swedes in Brussels, some 20,000 people refuse to leave Belgium each year, the daily Het Laatste Nieuws reported today. Experts estimate that 112,000 people are living illegally in Belgium.more

Spain's Ministry of Anti-Exclusion, Social Security and Migration has declared a state of emergency due to the increasing wave of illegal immigration to the Canary Islands. This archipelago only in the first half of October this year. 8.5 thousand arrived newcomers from Africa.more

The massive influx of migrants from Maghreb and sub-Saharan African countries to the Canary Islands is outpacing the capacity to house them in overcrowded temporary care centers for foreigners. According to local Prime Minister Fernando Clavijo, 6,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in the archipelago in the past two weeks.more

Net migration to the UK is likely to fall significantly in the coming years but remain at pre-Brexit levels of about 300,000, analysis by academic experts suggests.more

Poles are more sensitive than ever to the dangers of uncontrolled multiculturalism, and the UK can learn from Poland's rejection of illegal migration and globalisation, this newspaper's columnist Steven Edginton writes in the 'Daily Telegraph' today.more

The UK Home Office confirmed yesterday that it is sending letters to asylum-seeking migrants informing them that they will be transferred back to the barge 'Bibby Stockholm' next week.more

This year, more than 800,000 asylum applications have already been made in the EU, Switzerland and Norway. Compared to previous years, this is the highest number since 2016, the portal of the German daily Welt reported yesterday, citing the latest and previously unpublished data from the EU Asylum Agency (EUAA).more

The British Supreme Court yesterday began considering whether the government's plan to deport illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel to Rwanda is lawful.more

The number of migrants in the Netherlands increased by 61 per cent in 2022 compared to the previous year, according to the latest 'Staat van de Migratie 2023' report from the Ministry of Justice and Security.more

The world is facing an impending hurricane of mass immigration, warned British Home Secretary Suella Braverman in a speech delivered at the annual conference of the ruling Conservative Party in Manchester.more

Robert Jenrick says he wants to cut care visas for migrant workers and criticises Johnson’s immigration policy.more

There have never been so many immigrants in France as today, mainly due to the law allowing family reunification, said Didier Leschi, director general of the French Office for Immigration and Integration, on CNEWS.more

In the first nine months of 2023, 24,830 people on 506 boats crossed the English Channel illegally, according to statistics published by the Home Office.more

Since the beginning of the week, 212 illegal immigrants have crossed the English Channel in three small boats to get to Great Britain, the BBC reported, citing the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs.more

There are numerous tensions between countries in Europe due to the migration crisis; there is a need for a new migration pact – writes the daily "Le Figaro" today.more

The Home Secretary says multiculturalism in Europe has ‘failed’ as she calls for asylum reform to try and preserve national identities.more

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Fearing persecution over being gay or a woman is not enough to claim asylum Suella Braverman will argue in a keynote speech on Tuesday – using her US visit to call on world leaders to change the UN Refugee Convention.more