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Four people suspected of transporting 114 irregular migrants from Syria to the Republic have been arrested, police said on Wednesday as officials seek measures to curb arrivals from the West-Asian country. ...

Australian MP and Chair of the Australia/Cyprus Parliamentary Friendship Group, Maria Vamvakinou paid a visit to Cyprus last week, opening the discourse on human rights, migration and peace, the ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou discussed ways to expedite the examination of asylum applications with officials during a visit to the Pournara migrants’ reception centre on Tuesday. At the camp in ...

Chlorakas residents held an anti-migration demonstration on Saturday holding banners which read “#NoMoreFakeRefugees” and called on the government to act. Organisers of the demonstration also said they plan to set ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday expressed satisfaction with the inclusion of a reference to the Cyprus issue in the draft conclusions of the European Council, which will convene on June 29 ...

A migration department officer was arrested on Friday in connection with an ongoing investigation where residencies were issued to third country nationals. Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said he was disappointed ...

Plans were announced by the government on Thursday for the creation of a new deputy ministry of migration and asylum. Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou explained that the new deputy ministry ...

The government is determined to file complaints with international university accreditation authorities against higher education institutions in the north, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday. He said that this ...

European Union ministers agreed on Thursday on how to share out the responsibility for looking after migrants and refugees, after 12 hours of negotiations got Italy and Greece to sign up ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Demographic trends, most notably the declining trend of indigenous populations, mainly due to low birth rates, is a key challenge for all developed countries. ...

Another 39 people arrived in Cyprus from Syria on two boats on Friday. According to Steve Theodoulou, spokesman of the Famagusta Police Department, “around 1:25pm on Friday a boat was detected ...

Migrant support group Kisa on Thursday slammed a proposal tabled by the Elam party mandating the age-testing of asylum seekers claiming to be minors. In a statement, Kisa called the ...

Dozens more people were repatriated to their home countries as part of a voluntary return scheme, police said on Saturday. According to police, a total of 75 people left Cyprus on ...

The government is hoping that an ΕU action plan to deal with irregular migration flows in the Eastern Mediterranean will be a permanent solution to Cyprus’ issue. The complexity Nicosia ...

The online platform to make appointments at the immigration department has been taken down and new arrangements will be in place as of Monday, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on ...

Cyprus is one of the success stories when it comes to stepping up on returns, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, said on Tuesday during a press readout in ...

The European parliament on Monday will be discussing energy security, migration, asylum policy, spyware and foreign issues, in a plenary meeting lasting from Match 13 to 16, it was announced. The meeting ...

Pournara migrant reception centre is set to receive upgrades with funds of €25 million being approved by the cabinet on Wednesday, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said. On Thursday, the minister said ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Monday admitted mistakes in the management of the citizenship-by -investment scheme, but said that by late 2020 – when the programme was nixed – many flaws had been ...

The government seems set on expanding the controversial barbed wire being erected along stretches of the buffer zone with works set to begin in Athienou. Wire fencing and metal gates ...

2022 in review: more migrants are coming than are being processed or sent back and authorities can’t keep up Migration is a polarising topic, although it’s probably fair to ...

Cyprus and India on Thursday signed a letter of intent for a ‘migration and mobility partnership’, initiating the process for an eventual agreement on migration between the two nations. The ...

India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is to visit on Thursday where a series of agreements are to be signed, ranging from migration and military cooperation to overseeing accession to ...

In the last seven months, a total of 4,000 irregular migrants have been deported from the breakaway state in the north, according to the “minister of the interior”, Ziya Ozturkler, Turkish ...