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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications by refugees for Indefinite Leave to Remain submitted since July 2017 have still not received a decision.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking with other government departments to ensure that asylum seekers are able to present in their substantive asylum interview all information relevant to their claim an
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking with the Ministry of Justice to ensure that legal aid availability meets the needs of asylum seekers.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 July 2018
2434. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the weekly allowance for asylum seekers living in direct provision to €38.74 for adults and €29.80 for children in line with the recommendations of the McMahon report. [33763/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 July 2018
918. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if funding or grants are available for local refugee projects such as project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34091/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 July 2018
908. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has had discussions with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with a view to enabling asylum seekers to apply for a driver licence in view of the fact that his Department has relaxed the criteria for asylum seekers that are seeking employment; if he has not held discussions on this issue, if he will do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33900/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 July 2018
841. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the provision of services at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33482/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 July 2018
746. Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in direct provision who have had their asylum application granted but remain in the system; the reason these persons remain in the system; his plans to address the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32901/18]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 July 2018
745. Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons refused asylum; the number of deportations that resulted from a refusal to grant asylum; the number of appeals made against the decision to refuse asylum; the number of successful appeals in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32900/18]
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the statement on the resettlement of White Helmets by the Foreign Secretary and the International Development Secretary on 22 July, whether members of that group will be resettled in the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the statement on the resettlement of White Helmets by the Foreign Secretary and the International Development Secretary on 22 July, whether they will ensure that before members of that group are relocated i
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the statement on the resettlement of White Helmets by the Foreign Secretary and the International Development Secretary on 22 July, what estimate has been made of the costs to (1) the Exchequer, and (2) loc
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many applications for indefinite leave to remain submitted by refugees have been delayed by the Home Office by at least 12 months since July 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department has allocated to the UNHCR to support the processing of family links applications for each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will increase funding from her Department to the UNHCR to support the processing of family links applications in the Liverpool City Council area in each year for which information is avai
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that legal aid solicitors have the capacity to meet the demand for their services in relation to complex asylum cases.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2018 to Question 133797 on Asylum: Housing, which regions have not secured compliant bids under the tendering process for the new asylum accommodation contracts.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2018 to Question 133797 on Asylum: Housing, what criteria (a) his Department and (b) accommodation providers use to assess the particular circumstances and vulnerabi
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure greater consistency in the accuracy of decision making for all nationalities of asylum applicants.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2018 to Question 133797 on Asylum: Housing, what information his Department holds on the number of incidences of forced room sharing of asylum seekers in dispersed a
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2018 to Question 133797 on Asylum: Housing, how many asylum seekers have been placed into forced bedroom sharing in dispersed asylum accommodation in each of the las
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what extra support he is providing to the Liverpool City Council for the Syrian Resettlement Programme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Syrian refugees have been resettled in the Liverpool City Region since 2016.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many family links applications to the UNHCR have been successful in reuniting relatives of Syrian families settled in the Liverpool City Council area.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding has been allocated from his Department to the UNHCR to support the processing of family links applications for each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to increase the funding from his Department to the UNHCR to support the processing of family links applications in the Liverpool City Council area.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department is planning to send emergency aid to refugees to South Sudan as a result of violence in that region.
Germany · German Bundestag · 20 July 2018
Originaltext der Frage(n):<br /> <br /> Welche Konsequenzen und Handlungserfordernisse folgen nach Ansicht der Bundesregierung mit Blick auf Deutschland aus dem Urteil des Europäischen Gerichtshofs (EuGH) in der Rechtssache C-550/16 vom 12. April 2018, wonach als Flüchtlinge anerkannte unbegleitete minderjährige Geflüchtete einen Anspruch auf Elternnachzug haben, wenn sie bei der Einreise und Asylantragstellung noch minderjährig, zum Zeitpunkt der Asylentscheidung aber bereits volljährig waren, und inwieweit muss nach Auffassung der Bundesregierung betroffenen jungen Flüchtlingen in dieser Fallkonstellation nunmehr mit Blick auf das EuGH-Urteil die Möglichkeit gegeben werden, auch rückwirkend den Elternnachzug innerhalb von drei Monaten beantragen zu können, da ein solcher Antrag bislang mit Blick auf die deutsche Rechtslage und Rechtsprechung, die sich aber nun als unionsrechtswidrig erwiesen hat, chancenlos war (bitte begründet ausführen)?
Germany · German Bundestag · 20 July 2018
Originaltext der Frage(n):<br /> <br /> Welche Möglichkeiten des Rechtsschutzes werden die Betroffenen gegen Entscheidungen, die in den geplanten, so genannten "Transitzentren" für Flüchtlinge gefällt werden, haben?
Germany · German Bundestag · 20 July 2018
Originaltext der Frage(n):<br /> <br /> Welche Kenntnisse und Zahlen hat die Bundesregierung über die derzeit in Deutschland in Ausbildung befindlichen Asylsuchenden mit Bleiberecht, die Personen in Ausbildung mit laufendem Asylantragsverfahren und die abgelehnten Asylsuchenden, die danach ihre Ausbildung beenden mussten?
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 20 July 2018
Fiche: MFK - Verordening tot oprichting Asiel en Migratiefonds (AMF)
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the yearly variation in the number of applications granted for refugee status from refugees from Eritrea in the last five years.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 2018
UNRWA Reform and Refugee Support Act of 2018 This bill states that it shall be U.S. policy to recognize the refugee status of a Palestinian receiving assistance through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) if such person, or the person's spouse or minor child: resided, between June 1946 and May 1948, in the region controlled by Britain known as Mandatory Palestine; was personally displaced as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict; and has not accepted an offer of legal residency status, citizenship, or other permanent adjustment in status in another country. In applying such criteria to refugees under UNRWA it shall be U.S. policy, consistent with the definition of a refugee under the Immigration and Nationality Act, that: derivative refugee status may only be extended to the spouse or minor child of such a refugee, and an alien who was firmly resettled in any country is not eligible to retain refugee status.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people claiming asylum in Scotland have had to wait longer than the Government’s six-month target for a decision on their claims in each of the last three years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what emergency measures his Department has put in place whose application for asylum seekers for asylum support and whose application has been affected by ATLAS IT failures to ensure that such asylum
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that asylum seekers are able to finish the academic year in school once they have turned 18.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will list from which countries they would grant LGBTQ+ applicants refugee status based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to provide asylum seekers arriving in the UK with opportunities to learn English free of charge.
European Union · European Commission · 18 July 2018
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of why the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has referred so few Christians, Yazidis and other Syrian religious minorities for resettlement in the UK; whether any members of those minorities w
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government how long it takes for an asylum seeker to receive a decision on their application for section 4 support under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999; if successful in their application, how soon they should receive that suppor
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when after receiving refugee status people can expect to have their passports returned.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 July 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they are making to the government of the United States regarding refugees crossing the Texas border into the United States.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish his Department's targets for the processing of decisions on applications for asylum support.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to introduce a transparent system for the monitoring of his Department's performance on the time taken to make decisions on applications for asylum support; and if he will publis
Germany · German Bundestag · 13 July 2018
Originaltext der Frage(n):<br /> <br /> Sollen nach aktueller Weisungslage/Anordnung des Bundesinnenministeriums Migranten, die nicht in einem anderen EU-Staat registriert sind, aber über einen sicheren Drittstaat nach Deutschland kommen, weiterhin Asyl in Deutschland beantragen?
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference evidence in the report, Waiting in the Dark: How the asylum system dehumanises, disempowers and damages, published by Refugee Action in May 2019, what assessment has he made of the reas
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 July 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report Waiting in the Dark: How the asylum system dehumanises, disempowers and damages, published in May 2018 by Refugee Actio
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 July 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have claimed asylum on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity in the last 24 months; and of those, how many have been granted (1) refugee status, and (2) right to remain.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 July 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people who claimed asylum on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity have been subject to enforced removal from the UK in the last 24 months; and of those removed, which countries they were returne