WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that his administration plans to maintain an indefinite pause on asylum decisions following a deadly shooting near the White House. The attack, carried out by an Afghan national, left one National Guard member dead and another critically injured. Read More: White House Shooting Leaves Two Soldiers Critical Trump […]
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Record 135,000 Pakistanis seek asylum abroad amid rising visa restrictions
ISLAMABAD: A Senate committee learned on Tuesday that 135,000 Pakistanis applied for asylum in Europe and the US over the last two years. Of these, 125,000 sought refuge in various European countries, while more than 10,000 applied in the United States. This information was shared by the Director General of Passports during a meeting chaired […]
UK may restrict students from Pakistan, other states most likely to claim asylum
The British government may restrict visa applications from students living in countries – including Pakistan – that are considered most likely to claim asylum in a move designed to bring down annual net migration, a government official said. The move comes after Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party was punished in local elections in England […]
Lithuania vows asylum for Afghan translators
NATO member Lithuania said Friday it would grant asylum to a dozen Afghans who worked as translators and interpreters for international armed forces and now fear Taliban reprisals once foreign troops leave Afghanistan. “These are people who helped our forces. This is a matter of honour for our country to help them in return,” Prime […]
Violent Mexican border city opens its doors to U.S. asylum seekers
Nuevo Laredo, a Mexican border city known for high rates of violence, received its first foreign migrants from the United States on Tuesday as part of a program begun in January, U.S. and Mexican officials said. The group of 10 people – including Central Americans, Venezuelans and Cubans – crossed into the northeastern Mexican state […]
No expansion yet of U.S.-Mexico asylum programme after Trump deal
U.S.-bound asylum seekers are not yet being sent back to additional Mexican border towns to await processing after a deal on Friday called for the programme to be immediately extended to the whole border, three Mexican officials said. The text of the deal stated that the expansion of the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also […]
Migrants break border gate, force their way into Mexico
Mexican authorities said a group of about 350 migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemalan border Friday and forced their way into southern Mexico to join a larger group of migrants trying to make their way toward the United States. The National Immigration Institute did not identify the nationalities of the migrants, […]
US struggling with growing number of asylum seekers
Border officials are aiming to more than quadruple the number of asylum seekers sent back over the southern border each day, a major expansion of a top government effort to address the swelling number of Central Americans arriving in the country, a Trump administration official said Saturday. It was the latest attempt to ease a […]