Refugees

NEW ARRIVALS FROM Ukraine and other countries may have to sleep overnight in Dublin Airport as the Citywest facility has now reached capacity.  Arrivals to the Citywest Transit Hub have now been paused due to the “significant increase in the number of people seeking accommodation in recent weeks”, according to…

Published on October 20th, 2022 at 08:00am EDT Updated on October 20th, 2022 at 03:50pm EDT Recently, Statistics Canada released their report “Immigration selection factors and the earnings of principal applicants”. The report was an update of the 2015 investigation that helped guide development of Express Entry’s Comprehensive Ranking System…

By JULIET LINDERMAN, CLAIRE GALOFARO and MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press The young Afghan couple raced to the airport in Kabul, clutching their baby girl close amid the chaotic withdrawal of American troops last year. The baby had been rescued two years earlier from the rubble of a U.S. military raid…

Athens, Greece – After 92 asylum seekers were found stripped naked on the Greek side of the Evros River on Friday, Athens and Ankara are again trading accusations of ill-treatment of refugees, taking their fight public on Twitter. The river forms part of the border between the two countries, and…

Published on October 18th, 2022 at 08:00am EDT Updated on October 18th, 2022 at 09:18am EDT CIC News has obtained an internal IRCC memo that outlines targets for the number of new citizens Canada will welcome for the 2022-2023 fiscal year.  The memo, drafted by the Operations, Planning and Performance…

Rumoured proposals to charge people in Direct Provision for rent have been condemned by People Before Profit as “divisive”.  Around 55,000 Ukrainians have arrived in Ireland since the conflict began and in the first eight months of 2022, 8,892 asylum seekers arrived as well. Amid the worst housing crisis in…

CIC News > Latest News > General > Canada commits to attracting and retaining more international students The government has issued its response to the CIMM committee report on specific problems facing international students. Published on October 14th, 2022 at 08:00am EDT Updated on October 14th, 2022 at 09:53am EDT…

Published on October 13th, 2022 at 08:00am EDT Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) alongside Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations concerning Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs). In all there are 13 amendments designed to strengthen protections for TFWs and enhance…

There were tears of joy and immense relief in Killarney this morning after the Government announced it was reversing its decision to relocate 135 Ukrainian refugees to Mayo. Just minutes before busses arrived to take members of the Ukrainian community who were living in Hotel Killarney to Westport, news came…

Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita in the world. The government estimates that the country’s population of over 6 million includes roughly 1.5 million refugees from neighbouring Syria, though well under 1 million are registered with the UNHCR. Lebanon’s minister for displaced people, Issam Charafeddine, in July…