Romania immigration news

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Romania shares 8 reasons foreigners can lose their long-term residency

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Romania Announces 5 Key Benefits Foreigners Get With Long-Term Residence

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Romania Mentions Minimum Amount Foreign Businessmen Must Invest to Get Long-Term Residence

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Greece: Almost 200 migrants saved off Crete

Close to 200 migrants were saved in the Mediterranean Sea on separate boats near the Greek island of Crete. The four rescues reportedly took place during and just after a severe storm south of the island.

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Romania Announces 4 Categories of People Who Cannot Get Long-Term Residence

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UK: Court sentences Afghan asylum seeker and advises deportation

A UK court sentenced an Afghan refugee to "an indefinite hospital order," and recommended for deportation. The man was found guilty of manslaughter after attacking and killing a man walking his dog, as well as injuring two more people.

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Romania Announces 7 Requirements Foreigners Must Meet to Get Long-Term Residence

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Albanian Prime Minister rejects once more the idea of hosting EU migrant return hubs

The Albanian government reportedly does not intend to offer itself as a host country for future EU efforts to establish so-called return centers for rejected asylum seekers in third countries, according to a German newspaper report.

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Australia's migrant policy offers lessons for EU and US

Australia has used offshore processing centers to deter asylum seekers for more than two decades. As the EU and US pursue similar third-country arrangements, Australia's experience highlights the potential problems.

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Faster returns and stricter border controls: How the EU plans to tighten migration

The EU is cracking down on migration two months after launching the Migration and Asylum Pact. Migrants with no right to stay must leave and may be transferred to “return hubs”. A new European Return Order will include key elements of return decisions. But is the EU prepared?

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UK: Protests in Gosport as large group of intercepted migrants are brought ashore

Protesters gathered in the UK coastal town of Gosport, as a large number of migrants intercepted at sea were taken ashore there. The town is located around 180 kilometers away from Dover, which is the typical landing site of people rescued at sea in the English Channel.

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Libya: Several 'missing' Iraqi Kurdish migrants reportedly found alive and well

Iraqi Kurdish media is reporting that nine of a group of Iraqi Kurdish migrants, thought to be missing after leaving Libya on a boat bound for Europe may have been found, and are due to be repatriated to Iraq, once their identities and nationalities have been checked.