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Irregular arrivals to Cyprus fell by 92 per cent and new asylum applications dropped by 93 per cent in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period in 2022, Deputy Migration Minister ...

Romani Youssef sits in a detention centre, waiting to be deported back to Egypt after being arrested as a ‘prohibited immigrant’ two months ago. Meanwhile, his Cypriot fiancée Anthi ...

The deputy migration ministry on the occasion of World Refugee Day on Saturday reaffirmed its commitment to “an effective response to migration challenges”, stressing that the day served as a ...

Cyprus and Lithuania on Friday signed a memorandum of cooperation on the relocation of applicants for international protection from Cyprus to Lithuania, marking one of the first concrete solidarity measures ...

The European Union’s Pact on Migration and Asylum formally entered into force on Friday, with Cyprus and the European Commission describing the move as a historic milestone aimed at ...

Hundreds of Libyan demonstrators blocked off the office of the U.N. refugee agency in the capital Tripoli on Thursday during a protest against migrants who have travelled to the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday hailed a deal struck between the institutions of the European Union over a new law which will allow the bloc’s member states to establish “...

One of the three men who jumped from a third-floor balcony during an immigration raid in Larnaca has succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday night. The man, whose details remain ...

President Nikos Christodoulides was one of 33 heads of government to sign a joint statement affirming their will to work together to “tackle” irregular migration on the sidelines of the day’...

Cyprus is pursuing a comprehensive restructuring of its asylum system within the framework of the EU’s new migration pact, deputy migration minister Nicholas Ioannides assured on Saturday. “Our goal ...

Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Malta agreed to step up coordination to prevent a new migration crisis, during talks on the sidelines of the informal European Council meeting. In a joint ...

The House approved new refugee legislation on Thursday, establishing a revised legal framework for asylum procedures in line with the EU migration pact, with the law set to take force ...

A bill amending the Refugee Law is entering its final stage before a vote, following the completion of its examination by the House interior committee, with the aim of fully ...

The new migrant centre in Limnes, near the Larnaca district village of Menoyia, has been partially opened, the justice ministry said. It described the new centre as a “substantial step ...

The creation of an independent national monitoring mechanism for fundamental rights, along with further reforms in asylum, refugee matters and migration policy, was announced by the deputy migration ministry on ...

The justice ministry and the deputy ministry of migration on Thursday pledged to improve the efficiency of deportations of migrants residing illegally in Cyprus. In separate statements, the two ministries ...

Foreigners in Cyprus are three times more likely than Cypriots to report discrimination when accessing public services, according to data published on Friday by Eurostat. “At EU level, data show ...

Cypriots are among Europeans increasingly concerned about the future amid increased geopolitical tension and are calling for a more decisive response on behalf of the EU, a Eurobarometer survey published ...

A total of 171 irregular migrants were repatriated over Thursday and Friday through coordinated police and deputy migration ministry operations, a police announcement said. This is part of a broader strategy ...

The full implementation of the EU’s new pact on migration will be the central priority of Cyprus’s EU council presidency, deputy migration minister Nicholas Ioannides told the European ...

Hundreds of people are feared dead or missing after attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea, with reports of multiple shipwrecks in the last ten days following bad weather, the UN ...

The EU has a unique opportunity as it implements the Migration and Asylum Pact to show that cooperation leads to better results than isolation, International Organization for Migration (IOM) director-general ...

Deputy migration minister Nicholas Ioannides on Thursday opened the first informal meeting of EU justice ministers in Nicosia by urging European partners to act as a ‘united front’. Addressing his ...

Cyprus is under migratory pressure due to the disproportionate level of arrivals over the last year and will therefore be eligible to access the ‘solidarity pool’, the EU’s solidarity ...