Rukla refugee reception centre

Lithuania's Social Security and Labor Ministry has proposed paying one more benefit to asylum beneficiaries intended for rent of housing.

Four families of Syrian refugees that arrived in Lithuania in June under the European Union (EU) program bypassed the Rukla refugee registration center and were moved directly to the country's biggest cities, officers in charge of their integration said.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that Lithuania can still fulfill its commitment to accept over 1,100 refugees by the end of this year, but adds that this will not be done "at any cost".

Germany's migration authorities have notified Lithuania of its plans to send back yet another refugee to Lithuania. Although he has not yet reached Lithuania, non-governmental organizations organizing refugee integration say this could be a warning of more refugees to be sent back shortly.

Mayors of some of Lithuania's biggest cities fear the government's plans to move refugees directly to municipalities from April and bypass the stopover in the Rukla Refugee Reception Centre, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Wednesday.

Lithuania's non-governmental organizations should shortly provide a list of municipalities willing to receive refugees directly from camps in Greece, Turkey or Italy, with plans to implement the new scheme starting April, says Social Security and Labour Minister Linas Kukuraitis.

Lithuania's ministers of interior affairs and social security and labour, Eimutis Misiūnas and Linas Kukuraitis, are Monday going to the Refugee Reception Centre in Rukla to inquire about refugee integration issues.

200 asylum applicants have been relocated and resettled to Lithuania from Greece and Turkey in 2016. Since it is their first Christmas in Lithuania, International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Vilnius together with Rukla refugee reception centre organized an initiative to share the Christmas s...

Social Security and Labour Minister-designate Linas Kukuraitis proposes to change, based on Estonia's model, the way migrants are integrated in Lithuania in order to stop relocated refugees from leaving the country.

Abdulrahman Alfahed from Syria arrived with his family at the Rukla Refugee Centre a month and a half ago. The man is frustrated. So far the Migration Department has yet to interview him and the man has yet to receive a permit to live in Lithuania. Even if he did get it, Abdulrahman would not remain...

The elder of Rukla, a central Lithuanian town where a refugee reception center is located, says that a recent incident involving local and Syrian teenagers could have been provoked by the migrants themselves, the daily Lietuvos Rytas reported on Friday.

Lithuania's Social Security and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė has said following attacks on refugees in Rukla that asylum applications should be processed faster by migration authorities.

An Iraqi family of seven that has been relocated to Lithuania but refused a residence permit here has turned to court over the Migration Department's decision.

After Lithuania started to receive more refugees under the European Union (EU) program, its Rukla refugee reception centre may soon start running short on accommodation for all newcomers.