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The 28 Member States of the European Union (EU) granted protection status to nearly 333 400 asylum seekers in 2018, down by almost 40% from 2017 (533 000). In addition to these, the EU Member States received over 24 800 resettled refugees, informs Eurostat.
Asylum seekers are not allowed to take up jobs or start businesses in Lithuania until they have been granted temporary or permanent residence, but international and some local experts say that changing the rules would benefit the economy and refugee integration, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on...
Lithuania will not slow down the pace of relocation of refugees after expiry of the European Union's (EU) two-year program, says Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas.
The Lithuanian Migration Department has decided to deny asylum to Alisher Toshev, a Tajik national who was last week detained at Vilnius Airport over national security concerns and remains in special accommodation premises for asylum-seekers at the airport's border control area.
Four local men who worked with Lithuanian troops in Afghanistan have come to live in Lithuania, with one of them still waiting for asylum, the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces told BNS.
The Migration Department is drawing up a register of dwellings asylum-seekers could be housed in if there is a sudden inflow of migrants.
Lithuanian border guards on September 23 detained a Latvian woman for illegally transporting three Indian asylum-seekers from Latvia across Lithuania to the border with Poland, the State Border Guard Service said.
Russian opposition journalist Andrei Nekrasov, who arrived in Vilnius on Wednesday morning after being detained in Cyprus, has asked Lithuania to grant him political asylum.
The 27 European Union (EU) Member States for which data are available granted protection status to 185,000 asylum seekers in 2014, up by almost 50 percent compared with 2013. Since 2008, more than 750,000 asylum seekers have been granted protection status in the EU, said Eurostat, the statistical of...
Lithuania has suspended the decisions on granting asylums to Ukrainian citizens, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday.
The number of asylum applicants in Lithuanian last year stood at 440, a 10 percent increase from 2013 with 400 applications. The applicants in Lithuania in 2014 accounted for 0.1 percent asylum seekers in the European Union in total, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, reports.
Twenty-five Ukrainian nationals have asked for asylum in Lithuania over the first half of this year in the wake of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports.
