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Refugees

South Africa sees influx of asylum-seekers

10:42 08/05/2012
The South African government has announced that they are working to deal with the high number of asylum-seeker claims they continue to receive. Currently, South Africa receives more individual asylum...

Asylum applications to the UK down for 2007, processing becoming faster

18:09 30/05/2007
• Watch This Video Asylum applications to the United Kingdom for the first quarter of 2007 are down 10% from the same quarter of the previous year. 5,680 applications have been lodged so far this...

Australia-US refugee swap agreement, bizarre & possibly illegal

10:59 24/04/2007
• Watch This Video Last week the United States and Australia announced an agreement which would result in asylum seekers being exchanged between the two Countries. Almost instantly the plan was...

Holland grants amnesty to more than 30,000 asylum-seekers

16:45 05/12/2006
• Watch This Video Late in the evening of 30 November, more than 30,000 asylum-seekers were granted general amnesty by the recently elected Dutch parliament, according to recent news reports. Seventy...

UK offers asylum seekers money to return home

11:58 16/01/2006
The British government is to offer some asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants more cash to leave the country. The offer, of up to 2000 GPB ($3,500) per person, would run until the end of June and...

Norway seeks to deter asylum seekers

10:16 01/03/2005
Norway is to consider requiring large bank deposits from tourists coming from certain Countries in a bid to discourage asylum seekers from entering the Country, the newspaper Aftenposten reports...

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