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Applications for international protection submitted to the Immigration Office in Belgium increased by 53.6% in 2021, according to figures released by the General Commission for Refugees and Statel
Doctors of the World says that the situation at the Petit-Château reception centre for asylum seekers in Brussels is still very dire.
A desperate situation at the Petit-Château asylum seeker reception centre in Brussels was partially resolved late on Wednesday after 10 of the 30 unaccompanied foreign minors seeking shelter were
Several hundred people queued on Monday to try to access the "neutral zone" set up in Brussels to handle regularisation requests after a hunger strike by undocumented migrants was called off last
The building in Bilzen that was damaged by arson fire early last week will still become an asylum centre, according to federal migration secretary Maggie De Block (Open VLD).
Police have arrested five men in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a nine-year-old boy in Broechem, a district of Ranst in Antwerp province.
The Foreigners Office has launched a campaign to discourage migrants from seeking asylum in the country.
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.
Belgium's 50-a-day limit on asylum applications has been thrown out by the country's supreme court for violating human rights, after a complaint lodged by seven refugee organisations.
