UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has unveiled plans for a post-Brexit immigration system for the UK, which will end the freedom of movement for millions of European Union (EU) nationals.more
In the first half of this year, the number of illegal crossings of the EU's external borders fell by almost a fifth compared to the same period of 2019, to 36,400 cases, Frontex said. This was mainly due to the Covid-19 pandemic.more
"Poland is not a country for you. Do not waste time. Change your life" - appealed today well-known Polish surgeon Dr. Krzysztof Gójdź, encouraging young Poles to emigrate.more
Over 700 migrants are staying at the Italian Lampedusa center, where there are places for only a hundred people - this is the picture presented by the Italian media. Over two days, over 790 migrants arrived there. Gradually they are transported to Sicily.more
Also, Christians are not "immune to sin" of injustice and indifference to the cries of others - today Pope Francis gave during a mass in the Vatican, on the seventh anniversary of his visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a symbol of the migration crisis.more
PO MEPs collect signatures of the EP letter to the British authorities to ensure that future students from EU countries wishing to study in the UK could enjoy such privileges as during United Kingdom membership in the Community.more
Boris Johnson has said the UK will open a pathway to British citizenship for around three million Hong Kong British National (Overseas) passport holders as a result of China's new security law.more
It was enough for two weeks of lockdown in March for the earnings of foreigners obtained in Poland to drop by as much as 10% over the entire first quarter - the Polish daily "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" reports.more
Today marks one year before the EU Settlement Scheme application deadline of 30 June 2021. So far, there have already been more than 3.6 million applications and, according to internal management figures, more than 3.3 million have now been granted status.more
London's population is growing at its slowest rate in 15 years because of a rise in people moving abroad and a continuing exodus to other parts of the country, official figures revealed today.more
A fresh coronavirus outbreak in Germany has placed the country's massive meat processing industry under intense scrutiny, after more than 1,500 workers were infected at a family-owned slaughterhouse in North Rhine-Westphalia.more
Immigration rules that have left 1 million migrant workers in the UK at risk of destitution because they cannot claim universal credit should be suspended on public health grounds during the pandemic, a cross-party group of MPs has recommended.more
"As lockdown eases I think how fortunate we are to have been helped through this crisis by so many health professionals who trained here and abroad", Mirror.co.uk reports.more
The Canadian government's plans for 2020 assumed the arrival of 370,000 immigrants. Immigrants support Canadian economic development and will be needed for reconstruction after Covid-19. The economy is already losing because of fewer new arrivals.more
EU citizens in the UK may have problems obtaining citizenship, alerts the newspaper The Independent. The newspaper refers to a new provision that quietly introduced the Home Office, which closes many European immigrants to citizenship.more
Poland and the UK have signed a treaty that secures the right of Polish and British citizens to stand and vote in local elections in each other’s countries following the UK’s exit from the EU. This ensures that Polish people living in the UK and British citizens living in Poland have the right to choose who represents them in local government in the country where they reside.more
Data shows a reduction of 2% of registered Polish citizens on last year and of 5% on the peak year of 2018. The slight overall reduction suggest that only a small proportion of Polish families in London have been affected by the possibility of Brexit.more
On June 6, another, second charter flight from Kiev to Warsaw will take place for Ukrainian employees - said agency Gremi Personal, which provides Ukrainians to Polish enterprises.more
The Spanish government has extended by two years the right to work in agriculture for immigrants who were employed in the sector during the Covid-19 epidemic.more
Contrary to speculation about mass returns, the population of Poles in Great Britain remains almost unchanged at 900,000, the Office for National Statistics says.more
A Syrian refugee risking his life in the fight against coronavirus as a hospital cleaner has won the right for his family to be granted indefinite leave to remain were he to die on the frontline.more
