Imigracja

Twice as many foreign convicts are currently in Polish prisons than in 2020. The reason is not only the war on the eastern border, "Rzeczpospolita" reported.more

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has pledged £84m for projects in Africa and the Middle East to stop illegal migration "at source". The government said the new funding for education, employment opportunities and humanitarian support would help address the factors driving people to leave their homes.more

The heads of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of the Interior and Administration: Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and Tomasz Siemoniak stressed yesterday that the coordination between the government and the services on the protection of the eastern border has been strengthened and there are fewer attempts to cross it illegally. The head of the Ministry of Defence recalled that from 1 August, Opemore

From mid-2022 to mid-2023, the population of England and Wales increased by 609,500, the largest increase in 12 months in 75 years, but of this increase, only 400 people were births over deaths, with the rest due to immigration, the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday.more

Keir Starmer must take quick steps to fix the “broken” Home Office settlement scheme for EU citizens who were in the country before Brexit to avoid a repeat of the Windrush scandal, campaigners have said.more

The Austrian authorities are making work compulsory for migrants and those who refuse to work will receive lower financial support. A pilot programme to transfer benefits to a special payment card is also being launched.more

Nineteen people were arrested in the Irish capital, Dublin, during protests throughout Monday against the conversion of a former factory into accommodation for migrants seeking asylum.more

A retired shopkeeper who was told he was not British despite living in the UK for nearly 50 years can stay for good, the Home Office has decided. Nelson Shardey, from Wallasey in Wirral, has lived in Britain since arriving as a student in 1977, but in 2019 he was told he had no right to live in the UK. more

Conditions at an immigration detention centre in west London were "the worst" in the country - and so bad the chief inspector of prisons says he raised concerns with the then home secretary.more

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has set out the first steps towards setting up a UK Border Security Command, which the government hopes will reduce small boat crossings in the English Channel.more

Keir Starmer's government, in order to avoid the threat of populists in the future, should focus on tackling illegal immigration, maintaining law and order and avoiding "any vulnerability to wokeism", according to former Labour UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.more

The number of new asylum applications in Germany fell significantly in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period last year. However, Germany is "still the number one destination country" for asylum seekers in Europe, German media reported. Syrians made the largest number of asylum applications.more

New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed that his government will abandon its plan to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda. He explained that the plan pushed by his predecessors did not act as a deterrent.more

More than two years after the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, more and more Ukrainian refugees are planning to stay permanently in Germany, according to the latest Voice of Ukraine survey. Ukrainians living in Germany are less likely to declare a desire to return to their homeland than their compatriots currently residing in Poland.more

In the first six months of this year, 13,489 migrants in 270 boats crossed the Channel illegally into the UK, a higher number than in the same periods in each of the previous years, according to Home Office statistics.more

A liberalised law on the granting of German citizenship came into force yesterday. The new provisions, which include a reduction in the naturalisation period to five years, will enable Poles living in Germany, among others, to obtain second citizenship more quickly.more

In the coming months, President Joe Biden's administration will allow some immigrants to apply for US citizenship, the White House announced on Tuesday. This applies to some 500,000 people who are spouses of US citizens and have no legal status.more

A record 882 migrants were detected crossing the English Channel on Tuesday, the highest number in a single day so far this year, the Home Office has said. During the early hours of that day, around 85 migrants are understood to have been rescued from small boats in the Channel, with UK Border Force vessels and RNLI lifeboats sent out at about 4am.more

An EU country is not obliged to automatically recognise refugee status granted by another EU country, the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled yesterday.more

The next government could have to make costly payouts to dozens of asylum seekers detained for deportation to Rwanda, even if the Rwanda deal falls apart after the general election.more

Attempts by migrants to illegally enter Poland by air - mainly from Greece - have intensified. Nearly 600 cases in the first quarter,' reported “Rzeczpospolita” today.more

In Ireland, European Parliament elections have been held together with local government elections for years, which means that local issues influence the campaign to a greater extent than elsewhere. This year, however, the dominant topic has both a local and pan-European dimension, and it is immigration.more

The UK Home Office has no credible plan for how it intends to implement its programme to deport illegal migrants to Rwanda, nor can it show where specifically the money has been spent so far, MPs on the Public Expenditure Committee wrote in a report published yesterday.more

More than 10,000 illegal immigrants have already crossed the Channel into the UK since the start of this year and this is the earliest date in a year since this level was exceeded, according to Home Office statistics released yesterday.more

Net migration to the UK fell 10% last year after hitting a record high in 2022, official figures show. The number – the difference between the number of people arriving in the UK and leaving – was 685,000 in the year to December 2023, says the Office for National Statistics (ONS).more