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1,451 records in 2018
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Orthodox Christians seeking asylum in the UK from Syria for persecution are given fair and appropriate treatment and consideration.
United States · United States Congress · 10 January 2018
Securing America's Future Act of 2018 This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise immigrant visa allocation provisions, including family-related visas. A nonimmigrant classification for parents of adult U.S. citizens is created. The diversity visa program is eliminated. Annual immigration levels are revised. The limit on the worldwide level of employment-based immigrants is increased. The H-2C visa temporary agricultural worker program is revised. A trust fund is established to provide incentives for such workers to return to their country of origin. DNA testing to establish family relationships is authorized. Employment eligibility verification provisions are revised. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shall establish an employment verification system. No federal, state, or local government entity or individual may prohibit or restrict a federal, state, or local government entity or official from complying with the immigration laws or assisting related federal law enforcement activities. The bill revises provisions regarding: (1) detention of aliens in removal proceedings; (2) illegal entry and reentry; (3) inadmissibility and deportability of criminal aliens, gang members, drunk drivers, and sex offenders; (4) repatriation; (5) asylum and asylum fraud; (6) unaccompanied alien children; (7) foreign students; and (8) visa fraud. The bill: (1) transfers authority for strengthening the southern border from the Department of Justice to DHS; (2) revises border security provisions; (3) provides for additional border security personnel; (4) authorizes new ports of entry along the northern border and southern borders; (5) authorizes National Guard border security activities; (6) provides contingent nonimmigrant status for certain aliens who entered the United States as minors; (7) authorizes appropriations for specified border barriers and infrastructure; and (8) establishes Operation Stonegarden to make border security grants to law enforcement agencies. DHS shall: (1) submit a southern border threat analysis, (2) establish the Integrated Border Enforcement Team program, (3) implement the Border Security Deployment Program, (4) review social media activities of visa applicants, and (5) establish a biometric exit data system.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers classified as having special reception needs were detained in the UK by type of special reception need in 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's report, Asylum Migration and Integration Fund, List of Actions allocated funding, published in July 2017, which actions will continue to receive funding; and whether
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the reasons for the rise in the number of asylum applications in the last 12 momths that have failed to receive a decision within six months.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will examine the reasons for the number of asylum applications which are overturned on appeal; and if she will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the decision was taken to require Oxford-based asylum seekers to have to report at Eaton House, Hounslow, rather than at a closer location such as an Oxford police station.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many travel documents were issued to beneficiaries of international protection in 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications, by nationality, for family reunification with a beneficiary of international protection were received by the UK in 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many decisions made by the UK on applications for family reunification with a beneficiary of international protection were (a) accepted and (b) rejected in 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what proposals they have for international cooperation to make good the deficit on the current budget of the UN High Commissioner For Refugees; and in particular, how they intend to ensure that measures are taken to prevent
European Union · European Parliament · 9 January 2018
European Union · European Parliament · 9 January 2018
Netherlands · House of Representatives · 9 January 2018
Reactie op verzoek commissie over petitie "NietGayGenoeg" door LGBT Asylum Support
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
What steps she is taking to support refugees living in different regions of the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish guidance for healthcare professionals on the entitlements refugees have to NHS treatment.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied minors seeking asylum were detained by the UK in 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incoming Dublin III regulation requests were received by the UK in 2017 broken down by responsibility criterion under Chapter III Regulation 604/2013.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants were detained by the UK in 2017, broken down by grounds for detention.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will reintroduce a programme of support to newly-recognised refugees similar to that provided by the Refugee Integration and Employment Service until 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will produce a National Refugee Integration Strategy.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will increase the period in which refugees continue to receive asylum support after receiving a positive decision on their asylum application to 50 days.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has to provide training to JobCentre staff to support refugees.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on ensuring that newly recognised refugees receive the first payment of universal credit within 28 days of their applicati
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will allow asylum seekers to work while awaiting a decision on their application for refugee status.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will remove the limitation that asylum seekers are only able to work in jobs on the shortage occupation list, when granted permission to work.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to reinstate Government funding for DNA testing when it is required for asylum applications.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to amend immigration legislation to allow adult refugees in the UK to sponsor any dependent relative.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the immigration legislation to allow unaccompanied child refugees in the UK to sponsor their parents and siblings.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for exceptional case funding for refugee family reunion applications under part 11 of the Immigration Rules have been (a) received and (b) accepted in each financial year since 1 April 2013.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to add newly recognised refugees to the list of groups exempt from the seven day waiting period for universal credit.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department provides to refugees to find employment; and if he will make it his Department’s policy to work with local authorities to increase such support.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees regarding (1) the work needed to improve conditions for refugees in the camp at Moria on Lesbos, and (2) the resettlement or repatriation of other
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many incoming transfers under the Dublin III Regulation (regulation 604/2013) were made to the UK in 2017; and how many times the discretion under Article 18(1) of the Regulation was used in 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average duration of detention for adult asylum seekers in the UK in 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average duration of detention for all minors seeking asylum in the UK in 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average duration of detention for unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in the UK in 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average duration of the asylum procedure in the UK over (1) the last 12 months, and (2) the last three years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average duration of the asylum procedure at first instance in the UK over (1) the last 12 months, and (2) the last three years, for (a) Syrian nationals, (b) Afghan nationals, and (c) Iraqi nationals.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to schools to support refugee and asylum seeker children.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of removing legal aid from refugee family reunion cases on those refugees seeking family reunion; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average duration of the appeal procedure against first instance decisions on asylum applications in the UK over (1) the last 12 months, and (2) the last three years, for (a) Syrian nationals, (b) Afghan nationa
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 January 2018
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average duration of the appeal procedure against first instance decisions on asylum applications in the UK over (1) the last 12 months, and (2) the last three years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many outgoing Dublin III regulation transfers were made by the UK in 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average duration was for the Dublin III regulation procedure from the issue of outgoing request to the UK to the transfer to the Member State responsible.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average duration was of the Dublin III regulation procedure from a Member State accepting responsibility to the transfer from the UK to the Member State responsible.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incoming Dublin III regulation requests were received by the UK in 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which three countries made the most Dublin III regulation requests to the UK in 2017; and how many such requests were made by each of those countries.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incoming Dublin III regulation requests based on Article 16 Regulation 604/2013 relating to the dependent persons clause were received by the UK in 2017.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 January 2018
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incoming Dublin III regulation requests based on the discretionary clause pursuant to Article 17(2) Regulation 604/2013 (“humanitarian clause”) were received by the UK in 2017.