Australia’s Federal Circuit and Family Court Monday ruled that Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic’s visa was improperly cancelled by Australian border services, and that he must be allowed to enter Australia immediately. The reversal came about after Djokovic’s initial ban from entering Australia to compete in the Australian Open due to a failure to prove [...]
The Mexican Ministry of the Interior Thursday announced new rules requiring all Venezuelan nationals to secure a visa before entering Mexico as temporary visitors. This replaces older rules that allowed certain Venezuelan visitors to enter Mexico without a visa. The announcement, published in the Mexican Official Gazette of the Federation, cited legal authorities, including the Migration [...]
The UK Home Office announced plans Wednesday to establish a new Scientific Advisory Committee for developing a scientific method for evaluating the age of asylum seekers. The Home Office states that this method will prevent adult asylum seekers from posing as children to obtain support and benefits fraudulently. Discussing the program further, Home Secretary Priti [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Imperial Counties (ACLU) announced Monday that the Biden Administration had allowed the controversial Migrant Protection Protocol program (MPP), also known as “Remain in Mexico,” to be reimplemented in San Diego county. This followed a December 2021 federal court order requiring the Biden Administration to restart the [...]
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Jordan announced in a press conference with Jordanian media Sunday that 5,500 Syrian refugees had left Jordan and returned to Syria in 2021, a small fraction of the total number of Syrian refugees living in Jordan. The UNHCR stated that while many more wished to return to Syria [...]
Amnesty International Saturday reported that a nonbinary Jordanian LBTQI+ activist, who has been identified as AOA, has been improperly arrested and detained in Beirut while planning to fly to Australia to seek asylum. AOA’s arrest comes after they spent several years working in LBTQI+ rights in Jordan and eventually left to flee their allegedly oppressive and influential [...]
Former Danish immigration minister Inger Støjberg was voted out of the Danish parliament Tuesday, following her impeachment and conviction earlier this year for illegally separating married couples seeking asylum while in office. Støjberg was responsible for overseeing the immigration system in Denmark during the 2015 European migration crisis and received criticism for her extremely strict [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a statement Tuesday that described deteriorating conditions for migrants on the Poland-Belarus border, while also urging both countries to prioritize humanitarian aid and ensure the proper enactment of international asylum law. Poland and Belarus have been locked in a border dispute since earlier [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union in Maine (ACLU) Friday filed suit against the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the US District Court for the District of Maine, alleging that USCIS failed to provide detailed information on unusual numbers of denials for asylum cases for certain African countries at the Boston asylum office. The [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday they would hear the appeal of a lower court ruling that re-implemented Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) with the United States. That appellate court ruling followed a federal judge’s 2020 decision that struck the agreement down for violating the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. The [...]
