Canadian and U.S. officials are working on a plan to tackle asylum seekers crossing into Canada illegally, with American officials keen to discover how they entered the United States in the first place, said a source familiar with the matter.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came under increasing pressure on Thursday to deal with asylum seekers illegally crossing into Canada from the United States to avoid a crackdown by the administration of President Donald Trump.
The Department of Homeland Security has prepared new guidance for immigration agents aimed at speeding up deportations by denying asylum claims earlier in the process.
Officials at an Australian immigration center in Papua New Guinea are increasing pressure on asylum seekers to return to their home countries voluntarily, including offering large sums of money, amid fears a deal for the United States to take refugees has fallen through.
The number of people arriving in Germany wanting to seek asylum fell dramatically last year, figures showed on Wednesday (Jan 11) - good news for Chancellor Angela Merkel as she prepares to seek re-election.
Austrian Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil has called for a Europe-wide upper limit on the intake of asylum seekers as part of his new plan to cope with the refugee crisis.
Protesters campaigning against the Australian government's treatment of asylum seekers have breached parliament security for a second day.
About 30 people demonstrating against the Australian government's treatment of asylum seekers have disrupted parliament in Canberra.
Austria's interior minister threatened on Wednesday to sue Hungary if it refused to take back migrants who had crossed their shared border, as political tensions mounted over immigration before presidential elections.
While the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) has been hard-pressed to respond to the loads of asylum applications, it came under criticism of deliberately issuing negative decisions.
Australia and Papua New Guinea on Wednesday said they had agreed to close a controversial Australian-funded asylum seeker detention center on Manus Island, although the ultimate fate of 800 refugees held in the camp remained unclear.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday reported that Iraqi migrants to Europe, who have opted to return to Iraq, have done so because of asylum delays, inability to support themselves and disappointment with Europe.
Four Hong Kong citizens were injured, including two seriously, in a late night Monday attack on a regional train near Wuerzburg in the southern German state of Bavaria, the Chinese Consulate General in Munich confirmed on Tuesday.
The European Commission proposed more unified EU asylum rules on Wednesday, in a bid to stop people waiting for refugee status moving around the bloc and disrupting its passport-free zone.
More than 4,000 asylum seekers in Belgium voluntarily returned to their countries of origin in 2015, Belgium's migration office spokesman said Sunday.
The number of stateless children born to refugees is rising in Hong Kong, where claims from asylum-seekers have more than tripled in the last two years, alarming residents and lawmakers.
The Finnish authorities are trying to verify the security risks caused by the disappearance of some 2, 500 asylum seekers.
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