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A map of the European migrant crisis in 2015. This is a timeline of the European migrant crisis of 2015 and 2016.. Against the backdrop of four years of Syrian civil war and political instability in other Middle Eastern countries, [1] there was a record number of 1.3 million people who lodged asylum applications to the European Union's 28 member nations, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 ...
Some migrant deaths may go unreported even when they are brought to the attention of officials. [11] Mexico's Secretariat of Foreign Affairs has compiled data including deaths on the Mexican side of the border area during the period from 1994 to 2000. The data shows 87 deaths in 1996, 149 in 1997, 329 in 1998, 358 in 1999, and 499 in 2000. [12]
On 3 September, the bottom of a boat overcrowded with migrants ripped open, resulting in 12 deaths. [63] During the year to date, more than 21,000 people had crossed the channel. [64] At 00:00 on 15 September, rescue services were alerted to a rubber boat north of Boulogne-sur-mer that had got in a difficult situation. After hitting rocks it ...
The Refugee Council estimated that, as of the end of March 2024, there were over 118,000 people in the asylum backlog — that is, waiting to hear if their claim for asylum will be accepted or ...
May 25: Figures show the asylum backlog has hit a new record high with more than three quarters of claims made by people who crossed the Channel since 2018 still awaiting a decision.
Spain has offered to provide asylum to 17,337 refugees by September 2017, however, only 744 of which were extended asylum status in the country by July 2017. [210] In 2016 the Pew Research Center found that from July 2015 to May 2016 there was an increase in percentage point of the refugee population in many European countries, however Spain ...
On 24 August 2014, 24-year-old Iranian asylum seeker Hamid Kehazaei sought medical treatment at the detention centre's clinic for an infected wound after cutting his foot. [17] Kehazaei's condition worsened and he could not be treated on the island. Medical staff sought his immediate evacuation, but permission was not granted until 26 August.
The department, which had to make an initial decision on more than 92,000 asylum claims made before June 2022, described ending the legacy asylum backlog as a “pivotal step in the Government’s ...