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
The Government has decided to automatically extend all residence, work or study authorizations. The extension takes effect from the day following the expiration of the permit and will extend for the six months following the end of the alarm state.more
46.8 thousand were inspected yesterday people coming to the country, including 41 thousand people on the internal border with EU countries, as part of the temporarily restored border control - today informed the Border Guard in Poland.more
The ordinance on the extension of border controls at the internal border with EU countries for another month was published in the Journal of Laws. Border checks will be in force until June 12, 2020.more
The vast majority, as much as 85 percent of foreigners working in Poland, prefer to stay in Poland for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, mainly due to earnings and the opportunity to work - according to the study.more
Brandenburg's Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke sent a letter to the Polish government to facilitate the inhabitants of the Polish-German border crossing the border during the Covid-19 pandemic.more
Migrants, especially Moroccan and Algerian citizens, are fleeing from the epidemic of coronavirus Spain. The most desperate do not hesitate to pay for an illegal boat trip to their countries 5,400 euro, according to "El Pais".more
Are you afraid that you won't see your loved ones for a long time through a pandemic? Or are you afraid of the financial crisis and market collapse? - among others such questions in an anonymous survey by experts from The Polish University Abroad in London (PUNO.more
Campaign group the3million has written to ministers warning that many EU citizens in the UK are being wrongly denied the equal treatment promised by the Withdrawal Agreement. As a consequence people are not able to get the help that they need, including benefits.
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