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Six people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank in the Channel. A spokeswoman from French coastal authority Premar said between five and 10 others are missing, AFP reports.more

All 39 illegal immigrants who have been accommodated so far on the controversial barge "Bibby Stockholm" have been moved from it after the Legionella bacteria were detected in the water, the British Home Office announced yesterday.more

Last month, Smith Stone Walters reported on the latest set of changes to the UK’s Immigration Rules that were announced by the Home Office in two Statements published on 17 and 19 July. A key change set out in the first statement relates to the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). more

The number of illegal immigrants who have crossed into the UK on small boats and dinghies since 2018, when the phenomenon was first observed, has exceeded 100,000, with more than 60 per cent of these in the last year and a half, British media reported yesterday.more

Britain has reached an agreement with Turkey to combat illegal immigration and break up gangs involved in people smuggling, the British government announced. However, the agreement does not include the sending back to Turkey of illegal immigrants from this country, whose number is increasing.more

A "significant" number of asylum seekers who had refused to board the Bibby Stockholm have now changed their minds about moving to the barge, the immigration minister has told the BBC.more

The migration crisis in Germany is intensifying. The number of asylum seekers in Germany rose by 78 per cent in the first seven months of this year compared to the same period in 2022, the 'Welt' daily website reports today.more

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman today announced the establishment of a taskforce to tackle rogue lawyers who help illegal immigrants prepare evidence to successfully claim asylum.more

Only 15 illegal immigrants managed to accommodate on the Bibby Stockholm barge, moored in the port of Portland in south-west England, the British Home Office confirmed. Another about 20 people refused to transfer to the unit.more

Sitting behind 15ft metal fencing and two sets of guarded gates, the 222 tiny cabins on the Bibby Stockholm - the Home Office’s first asylum seeker barge - await the arrival of their first occupants. more

Although the number of asylum applications in Austria has dropped, Interior Ministry chief Gerhard Karner yesterday announced the introduction of new technologies at the border with Hungary to reduce migrant smuggling, these include heartbeat detectors and additional drones, APA reported.more

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brandenburg, Michael Stuebgen, renewed his call for the introduction of permanent controls at the border with Poland in connection with the growing number of migrants who cross it illegally, the portal of the daily "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" informs today.more

Four Nigerians attempted to reach Europe as stowaways - instead, to their surprise, they made it to Brazil, the BBC news portal reported on Wednesday. They traveled at the helm of a merchant ship and in a cramped space above it.more

Portland has its reasons for fame, but all of them are now being overshadowed by the "Bibby Stockholm", a nearly 100-metre-long barge docked in its port where the British government will send illegal immigrants. The first group of 50 people is to be accommodated there today.more

With the number of illegal entries into Germany on the rise, there are further calls for border controls. "Illegal migration is threatening to get out of control, especially on the border with Poland and the Czech Republic," the vice chairman of the CDU/CSU Union faction Andrea Lindholz urged on Friday.more

Tents could be used to house up to 2,000 migrants on disused military sites next month, under plans drawn up by the home secretary, Suella Braverman, in an effort to avoid accommodating asylum seekers in hotels.more

Joachim Walter, head of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg, wants asylum seekers in Germany to be required to take up jobs. "It would be important for us at the county level that refugees take up jobs quickly, including in nonprofit organizations," Walter explained.more

Between January and June this year, 162,271 migrants applied for asylum in Germany. This corresponds to the population of a city the size of Heidelberg or Darmstadt. If migratory flows continue at this rate, Germany will have 324,542 asylum seekers by the end of the year.more

Even 10,000 Pounds are taken by dishonest lawyers from illegally residing migrants in the UK for the preparation of evidence for them to successfully apply for asylum, according to a journalistic investigation described today by the "Daily Mail".more

Britain is imposing visa requirements for all visitors from Dominica, Honduras, Namibia, Timor-Leste and Vanuatu, as Suella Braverman cited abuse of the migration system.more

Later in July, the first illegal immigrants will be transferred to the adapted barge "Bibby Stockholm," the British government announced. The barge docked yesterday at the port of Portland in the county of Dorset in southwest England.more

The Illegal Immigration Bill, which aims to stop the uncontrolled flow of illegal immigrants into the UK, was finally approved by the British Parliament last night.more

Surcharge to increase by £400 to meet cost of salary increases, but extra savings still needed from government budgets more

The number of illegal entries into Germany from Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland continues to rise, the portal of the daily Welt reported. Germany needs border protection with these countries more urgently than ever, CDU politician Alexander Throm assessed.more

Britons should open their homes to asylum-seekers to help reduce the £2.2 billion annual cost of housing them in hotels, a report backed by a former Cabinet minister says.more