Tag: Asylum seekers

• Friday, May 17th 2024 - 11:55 UTC

  Uruguay creates “Residence by rootedness” legal figure for asylum seekers

  

  Uruguayan authorities came up with the so-called “Residence by rootedness” (“residencia por arraigo”) solution to help some 20,000 migrants who had their asylum requests rejected but would otherwise need a consular visa to stay in the country, it was announced in Montevideo.

• Thursday, May 16th 2024 - 14:42 UTC

  Venezuela denies safe-conducts to asylum seekers in Argentine embassy

  

  Venezuela's regime Wednesday denied Argentina's request for safe-conducts whereby six dissidents housed in the diplomatic mission in Caracas would be able to reach the airport and take a flight to Buenos Aires, government strongman Diosdado Cabello confirmed while calling Argentine President Javier Milei a “fascist.”

• Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 10:28 UTC

  Asylum seekers who arrive in UK on small boats will be sent to Rwanda, BBC

  

  Some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats across the Channel will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, under new government plans, report BBC. Home Secretary Priti Patel is in the African nation to sign a deal for a £120m trial involving mostly single men arriving in Britain via boat crossings.

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  UK MPs suggest asylum seekers crossing the English Channel be sent to Falklands

  

  According to UK news reports, the British government is becoming quite desperate about the asylum seekers braving the English Channel, a record 25,000 so far this year, and all sorts of radical measures to contain the increase in arrivals are being considered, including sending the refugees south to the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  UK considered building asylum processing centers in Ascension and St Helena

  

  British Home Secretary Priti Patel ordered officials to explore plans for building an asylum processing centre on a remote volcanic island in the south Atlantic – more than 4,000 miles from the UK, it has been reported.