Within the first 18 days of the brand new 12 months, over 700 asylum looking for purposes have been submitted earlier than Cyprus’ authorities, Philenews reported on Wednesday.
This means that Cyprus will preserve its undesirable document of getting the best variety of first-time asylum purposes amongst all 27 EU members relative to its inhabitants of roughly a million.
The Inside Minister has already introduced he’ll examine the Lithuanian mannequin in relation to the immigration downside the nation is confronted with due to Ukraine.
And that he’s sustaining shut contact with the French EU presidency for help primarily within the return of irregular migrants.
Based on information supplied, 19,000 asylum purposes at the moment are pending, whereas a document variety of 16,549 purposes had been processed in 2021.
On the similar time, a request has been submitted to the European Fee to take motion in favour of the Republic of Cyprus.
This contains granting it the fitting to droop asylum purposes by individuals coming into the nation illegally.