Content by tag : Asylum seekers
The staff at the Fedasil immigration office in the Petit-Château stopped work at 8.00 this morning for a 24-hour strike.
Between 500 and 600 demonstrators gathered in support of the Afghan people on Wednesday afternoon at the Schuman roundabout in Brussels, in front of the European Commission, the European Council a
The Brussels employment service Actiris and Fedasil, the federal institution responsible for the reception of asylum seekers, have signed a cooperation agreement to help asylum seekers find jobs.
The Belgian state has been condemned by the Brussels Court of First Instance for not directly offering reception to asylum seekers who had electronically informed the Aliens Office (AO) that they
A group of 18 unaccompanied children from Greek refugee camps have begun new lives in Flanders this week.
Last year, 217 asylum-seekers in Belgium had their right to stay in the country revoked. It is a record number for a single year.
The number of asylum applications made in Belgium rose by almost 20% in 2018 to 23,443, and grew faster in the second half of the year, official new figures show.
Since last Wednesday, the Immigration Office in the centre of Brussels has limited asylum requests to 50 to 60 a day.
The month of October saw 2,750 requests for asylum in Belgium, nearly 20% more than the month before and more than 50% more than October of last year.
