#Asylum seekers

Fifteen third country nationals who were in Cyprus illegally have been repatriated in cooperation with Frontex, the EU’s border and coastguard agency, police said on Wednesday. The 15 were repatriated ...

Competent services need to cooperate more effectively to tackle the phenomenon of seasonal farm workers quitting their jobs to claim asylum in Cyprus, the House agriculture committee heard on Tuesday. ...

The EU will find a way to make the Turkish leadership responsible for restricting the migrant flow into the north of the island and from there to the Republic, European ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris has confirmed reports that a resident of Germany has acknowledged as his own, four children from three different women, all who happen to be asylum seekers ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris confirmed reports on Wednesday that a resident of Germany has acknowledged as his own four children from three different women, all who happen to be asylum ...

Police on Monday said they are “sparing no effort” in locating missing persons while many resources are being given to locate the 14 unaccompanied minors who disappeared from the facilities in ...

The situation at the Pournara reception centre for asylum seekers is extremely volatile, both for those staying at the facility and for the neighbouring communities, MPs heard on Tuesday. The ...

The health ministry on Tuesday announced it has made some changes for asylum seekers wanting treatment at state hospitals. In a written announcement, the ministry said the changes went into ...

More than 700 asylum seekers recipients of welfare benefits were found to have secured jobs and their grants will be terminated, deputy minister for social welfare Anastasia Anthousi said on Thursday. ...

Another 50 unaccompanied minors were transferred from Pournara reception centre for asylum seekers to a Paphos-based facility on Wednesday, with more expected to be taken there in the coming days, Deputy ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris sounded the alarm about the increasing migratory flow to Cyprus on Wednesday during a meeting with the leader of Dipa Marios Garoyian. Following the meeting, Nouris ...

The highest number of first-time asylum applicants relative to the population in the EU in 2021 was recorded in Cyprus, with 14,799 first-time applicants per million residents, according to a Eurostat report ...

The administrative court has rejected an appeal by a company seeking to continue using a specific building in Chlorakas to host asylum seekers, the legal service said on Wednesday after ...

Ukrainian refugees in Cyprus will be issued with a card giving them access to accommodation, food, and medical care as part of the temporary protection regime following Tuesday’s approval ...

Three people were arrested as a police operation until midnight on Sunday continued ongoing checks of the Chlorakas community. The latest coordinated police operation, which included airport security forces, took ...

Coordinated police operations in Chlorakas continued over Saturday night with two people found illegally staying in the area charged. A new operation was staged on Saturday lasting from the afternoon ...

Increasing migratory flows into Cyprus require comprehensive management of the asylum system in line with international laws and norms to implement fast and fair asylum procedures, the UNHCR representative in ...

The European border and coast guard agency helped return a record of more than 18,000 non-EU nationals to 102 countries last year, with Cyprus being among the main operations, a report showed ...

Some 3,000 asylum seekers have obtained jobs amid keen interest to fill vacant positions in the labour market, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday. And as of January 17, a total ...

The Water Development Department on Tuesday said it cannot satisfy a demand by residents at a specific Chlorakas apartment building to reconnect the water supply as it does not have ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres recommends renewal of Unficyp’s mandate for another six months, as he censured the government over its treatment of asylum seekers, emphasising the importance of ...

The speedy processing of asylum applications has led to a massive backlog in court appeals, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Wednesday arguing there was no other choice but to ...

Anger, suspicion and some sympathy – villagers say asylum camp out of control By Theo Panayides The Pournara reception centre for asylum seekers outside Kokkinotrimithia, on the outskirts of Nicosia, has ...

The government said Wednesday it had never tried to sweep the migration problem under the carpet, including the overcrowding at a reception centre outside Nicosia, as it sought to defend ...