#Asylum seekers

Afternoon court hearings will start for asylum seekers’ appeals while additional hires in the asylum service are among the measures aiming to speed up the processing of asylum applications, Interior ...

The Anastasiades government left the new interior ministry with 21,565 pending applications for political asylum, it was reported on Sunday. According to daily Politis, from November 2, 2018 until January 22 more than 41,283 people ...

A total of 29 people – which 21 from Pakistanis and eight Georgians, were returned to their country of origin on Tuesday. The repatriations were a result of a police operation carried out ...

Britain will scrap the requirement for around 12,000 asylum seekers to undergo face-to-face interviews and instead ask them to fill out a questionnaire, the government said on Thursday, in an attempt ...

The percentage of foreigners a company is allowed to employ and include into collective agreements has been raised from 30 to 50 per cent, Labour Minister Kyriakos Koushos announced on Wednesday. Speaking ...

Cyprus and Austria will submit proposals next week on their cooperation on illegal migration and relocation matters, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris stated on Friday after meeting his counterpart Gerhard Karner ...

Cabinet has tweaked the legislation to hire far more judges and court staff to decongest the backlog of asylum seeker applications. The courts are currently facing a backlog of 20,000 cases, ...

Three persons aged 26, 25 and 23, were arrested at Limassol port on Monday after they attempted to depart the island using forged travel documents. The suspects, who aimed to travel to Genoa, ...

A little over a third of the interior ministry’s budget for 2023 will go to development projects, as the administration works to push through a number of reforms, including in ...

I am so ashamed as an African, l am so ashamed as an asylum seeker here in Cyprus. We left our home countries because of insecurity. We found shelter in ...

Hope for Children organisation on Monday said it has hosted during the past three years, 257 unaccompanied minors, in its ‘Home for Hope’ shelter, offering them support during their transition to ...

The European Union’s report on migration and asylum, released on Thursday, said that Cyprus has seen a 122 per cent increase on 2021 in the number of irregular arrivals in the ...

Police arrested two people who tried to depart from Paphos airport last Friday and Saturday with forged documents, while a third person was also arrested for illegal trafficking of third ...

Police conducted a raid on a building in Chlorakas overnight, where they arrested three people for illegally residing in the building, and charged four others for stealing electricity, authorities said ...

A mission with 140 volunteers from various European countries came to Cyprus in August to support refugees staying at the Pournara reception centre for asylum seekers. The mission concerned an initiative ...

The state is to tighten its purse strings and get tougher on how benefits are handed out to migrants and asylum seekers, but those seeking protection are set for some ...

Pressure rose on the Dutch government on Friday to tackle what refugee advocates have called “inhumane” conditions at its main shelter for asylum seekers as humanitarian group Medecins sans Frontieres ...

A crackdown on the misuse and abuse of benefits has led to 3,000 asylum seekers having their payments cut, while restrictions on how they spend the money are also reportedly on ...

Improvements, which will reduce the burden on the Lakatamia welfare office that assists asylum seekers, were under way, the deputy minister of social welfare Anastasia Anthousi said on Monday. There ...

The social welfare services on Tuesday came in for renewed and harsh criticism over their handling of the Lakatamia office which deals with foreign nationals, as the municipality announced it ...

The blame game over the collapse of balconies on two buildings in Paphos in the space of 24 hours is well underway, as passing the buck in the event of a ...

The ambassadors of France, Germany and the Netherlands visited Pournara reception center on Monday in what was seen as acknowledgement of the problem facing Cyprus and of the need for ...

The European Union’s top migration official told Greece on Thursday to stop “violent” deportations of migrants or risk losing funds. After becoming one of the main destination points during ...

Asylum seekers held an anti-racism protest on Thursday in Nicosia, to demand the immediate examination of their applications. A group of asylum seekers gathered near Paphos gate in the capital ...