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Fewer granted asylum on re-application: report

It has become increasingly difficult for undocumented immigrants, whose application for permanent residence in Sweden has been rejected, to apply a second time, according to a new report by national broadcaster Sveriges Radio (SR).

Fewer granted asylum on re-application: report

Of the around 20,000 asylum seekers who have their application rejected annually, about 15,000 are sent back to their home country and only some 500 per year try again, reported the broadcaster.

And in order to re-apply, four years must have passed from the rejection.

Previously, 85 percent of those who applied for a permanent residence permit in Sweden were granted the right to stay, whereas today, this number has been reduced to 60 percent.

The change follows a precedent-making verdict from 2009, which states that the asylum seeker must cooperate with authorities after the application has been rejected. Remaining hidden after the initial rejection will not work in the applicant’s favour in the re-application process, according to SR.

But to get to stay in Sweden today on a re-application, there would need to be especially distressing circumstances, according to Fredrik Beijer, acting legal head for the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket).

“A family with children for example who have been here for a long time and where the children have adapted to Swedish society to an extent where it would be very hard to uproot and return to their home country,” said Beijer to SR.

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France ‘will not welcome migrants’ from Lampedusa: interior minister

France "will not welcome migrants" from the island, Gérald Darmanin has insisted

France 'will not welcome migrants' from Lampedusa: interior minister

France will not welcome any migrants coming from Italy’s Lampedusa, interior minister Gérald Darmanin has said after the Mediterranean island saw record numbers of arrivals.

Some 8,500 people arrived on Lampedusa on 199 boats between Monday and Wednesday last week, according to the UN’s International Organisation for
Migration, prompting European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to travel there Sunday to announce an emergency action plan.

According to Darmanin, Paris told Italy it was “ready to help them return people to countries with which we have good diplomatic relations”, giving the
example of Ivory Coast and Senegal.

But France “will not welcome migrants” from the island, he said, speaking on French television on Tuesday evening.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called on Italy’s EU partners to share more of the responsibility.

The recent arrivals on Lampedusa equal more than the whole population of the tiny Italian island.

The mass movement has stoked the immigration debate in France, where political parties in the country’s hung parliament are wrangling over a draft law governing new arrivals.

France is expected to face a call from Pope Francis for greater tolerance towards migrants later this week during a high-profile visit to Mediterranean city Marseille, where the pontiff will meet President Emmanuel Macron and celebrate mass before tens of thousands in a stadium.

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