Foreigners 22% of Swiss population as it nears 8m
GenevaLunch News Swiss births up, new mothers older, divorces down Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Foreigners made up 21.98 percent of the Swiss resident population in 2009, figures released by...
View ArticleSwiss gov’t moves to speed up asylum process
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss federal government Wednesday 27 May agreed to revise the laws and regulations covering asylum, despite objections from several quarters on...
View ArticleAsylum seekers: Nigerians remain largest group
GenevaLunch News Acceptance rate at 18.7% Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – The number of people seeking asylum in Switzerland fell by 4.2 percent from April to June 2010, with a total of 3,544...
View ArticleWikileaks studying move to Switzerland
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, told TSR, Swiss public television, in a broadcast interview Thursday evening 4 November that he is considering...
View ArticleUNHCR warns Europe as agency celebrates its 60th anniversary
GenevaLunch News Largest-ever single pledge session as refugee group increases internally displaced and stateless refugees work Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The UN refugee agency, UNHCR,...
View ArticleOssetian-Norwegian illegal immigrant author expelled from Norway
GenevaLunch News The author of a book about being an illegal immigrant in Norway was deported to Moscow Monday, 11 years after she last saw Russia, at the age of 14. Her case has sparked heated debates...
View ArticleAustralia: Grave concerns for the mental welfare of child asylum-seekers
GenevaLunch News AUSTRALIA – Child asylum-seekers in Australia may be victims of “child abuse,” said the Australian Medical Association, AMA, to a joint select committee looking into Australia’s...
View ArticleAsylum seekers on rise in Switzerland, but sharp drop from Balkans (update)
GenevaLunch News New 48-hour turnaround policy effective, says Bern Update 17:30 BERN, SWITZERLAND – The number of requests for asylum in Switzerland rose by 6.8 percent in October, to 2,407, while...
View ArticleSwiss to check asylum seekers’ fingerprints against Schengen entries
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Office for Migration in early December 2012 began checking asylum seekers’ fingerprints against CS-VIS, the European database of registered asylum...
View ArticleNumber of successful asylum seekers down as loopholes closed
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – The number of requests for asylum in Switzerland fell by 16 percent in February, compared to January (and by 20 percent compared to February 2012), and the number...
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