Imigracja

Illegal migration to Europe via the central Mediterranean route has fallen by 35 per cent this year compared to 2023. - AP reported on Friday citing UN data. At the same time, more people are trying to reach the Canary Islands and the route across the eastern Mediterranean to Greece.more

The vast majority of Germans (71%) believe that their country is no longer able to cope with the large number of refugees from crisis areas. Only 27% of respondents remain optimistic about this, according to a Politbarometer survey for broadcaster ZDF.more

Almost 6,300 illegal immigrants arrived in the Canary Islands in July and August, a record number since detailed statistics began on the issue, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.more

Six children and a pregnant woman were among 12 people who died after a boat carrying dozens of migrants sank off the French coast, in the English Channel. In total, 10 of the dead were female and two were male, according to the local prosecutor's office.more

Thanks to foreign workers, our economy has grown faster in recent years. Their influx should further increase the rate of GDP growth, writes ”Rzeczpospolita” in today's issue.more

The Republic of Ireland’s population increased by almost 99,000 people last year, the biggest increase since 2008. Most of the growth - 79,300 people - came from net migration with the rest due to 19,400 more births than deaths.more

Care homes struggling to find staff following changes to the immigration system that will not be reviewed by the new Labour Government.more

The shrinkage of human resources in Poland could have disastrous consequences for social security systems and economic development; this could be prevented by, among other things, a well-considered migration policy, according to a report published on Wednesday by Employers of Poland.more

Official statistics reveal fewer people are seeking to come from abroad to work in the NHS or in social care. The statistics reveal that the outgoing Conservative government granted some 286,382 work visas overall in the year to June 2024 - 11% down on the previous year.more

Home Office ministers have promised a "large surge" in returns flights for failed asylum seekers and others with no right to be in the UK. Plans include 100 more new intelligence officers to target people smuggling gangs and reopening immigration removal centres in Hampshire and Oxfordshire, adding 290 beds. more

The United Kingdom has given the power to the Border Force officers to cancel the pre-settled status of EU citizens and their foreign family members who are found to not comply with the rules.more

While Canada has a good reputation on immigration, programmes such as the Temporary Worker Immigration Programme are becoming a breeding ground for modern slavery, wrote its special envoy Tomoya Obokata in a recent UN report.more

New Zealand had a net migration gain of 73,300 in the June 2024 year, down from the peak in late-2023, according to provisional estimates released by Stats NZ.more

Every fourth child in Spain under the age of 17 has at least one foreign parent - notes the Spanish daily "El Pais". In a country where for years more people have been dying than being born, population growth is mostly based on immigrants - adds the newspaper.more

703 illegal immigrants in 11 boats crossed the Channel into the UK on Sunday, the UK Home Office reported yesterday. This is the third highest tally this year and the highest since Labour took power at the beginning of July.more

Changes could include raising the minimum salary threshold for overseas workers to obtain a visa to take up a job in the UK.more

Two migrants died in French waters while trying to cross the English Channel in a small boat. Around 50 people who were also on that boat were rescued and taken to France, a UK government spokesman said.more

Since 2015, 12.5 million people have come to Germany, but more than seven have left, according to a study conducted by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, which analyzes the immigration and emigration of people without a German passport. The German economy is losing millions of workers - comments the website of the daily "Welt".more

The number of overseas workers and students applying to come to the UK has fallen after curbs on visas introduced by the previous government. Workers and their family members applying on skilled worker, health and care, and study visas fell by more than a third in July to 91,300 compared with last year.more

Within the first month of the Labor government taking power, 3,596 illegal immigrants entered Great Britain through the English Channel, which is an almost identical number to the same period last year and clearly lower than in the same period a year earlier - according to statistics British Home Office.more

A group of 96 migrants were unlawfully detained at a Kent processing centre and subjected to ill-treatment by staff and humiliation, their lawyer has told the High Court. The claims have been brought against the Home Office, which is yet to formally file a defence.more

Entrepreneurs in Poland fear that the government's tightening of immigration policy will result in companies having problems recruiting employees, reports today's "Rzeczpospolita".more

Riots continued across Britain on Sunday as aggressors set fire to hotels used to house asylum seekers. Hotels were set on fire in Rotherham and Tamworth while in Bolton, rival groups of anti-immigrant and Muslim youths were kept apart by police.more

Lawyers criticise what they consider inconsistencies in the handling of individual foreign nationals’ cases.more

Car washes and parts of the beauty sector will be targeted by immigration officers as they step up enforcement action over the summer, the home secretary has announced.more