The Dutch Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) is moving to deport minor asylum seekers more quickly if they have committed crimes, rather than treating them as juveniles. This law will come into effect within two weeks, and the IND can refuse or revoke permits on the basis of these...

Nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since the fall of Bashar Al Assad in early December, the UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said ahead of a visit to the region. Between December 8 and January 16, some 195,200 Syrians returned home, according to figures published by Grandi on...

The German government has decided to pay 1,700 euros to each Syrian family who wants to return to their country voluntarily as assistance, as part of a package of measures that the Federal Ministry of the Interior is working on regarding asylum and voluntary return. According to a statement...

An Austrian study has indicated that Austria is threatened by a real shortage of skilled workers with the legalization of asylum and immigration in the country. According to a study on the development of employment in the Austrian export industry conducted by the Institute for Economic...