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They come for asylum, insisting they face persecution for their religion, or sexuality or for supporting the wrong politicians. For generations, they had been given the chance to make their case ...
International students filed a record 20,245 asylum claims last year, with 2025 on track to surpass that number, according to federal immigration data obtained by Global News. The claims are ...
At least 375 Nigerian citizens sought asylum in Sweden in 2024, according to the Swedish Migration Agency’s 2024 asylum application data obtained by Saturday PUNCH. Of figure, 239 were first ...
In mid-December, she and her mother fled Venezuela, intending to claim political asylum in the United States. But, midway through their journey north, President Donald Trump, in one of his first ...
The Government is considering a range of proposals aimed at reducing the length of time the State’s asylum-seeking process takes. The most contentious proposal is that asylum seekers will no ...
A Ghanaian asylum seeker has been allowed to remain in the UK after arguing he’s “too scared of getting Covid" to return to his home country. Winfred Kwabla Dogbey, claimed he could not be ...
Requests for church asylum have almost quadrupled in some places, according to the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD). However, not everyone can be offered protection. An increasing number of ...
No fewer than 1,372 Nigerians have secured asylum in the United States of America over the last three years. This is contained in new case-completion data published by the Executive Office for ...
An asylum seeker could be allowed to stay in the UK after a judge's ruling against the 'purely fictitious' claim he was trafficked from Albania was overturned. The 24-year-old asylum seeker sought ...
The two facilities were opened last October as processing centres for potential asylum seekers intercepted at sea, in an experimental scheme closely watched by the rest of the European Union.
End asylum. After all, the Democrats’ rationale for admitting all those millions of illegal border-crossers was that they had a “right” to claim asylum, the legal protections offered to ...
New statistics reportedly show post-COVID lows in asylum applications to Germany. But does the data provide a complete picture of displacement abroad? Fewer and fewer people are seeking asylum in ...