The European Commission has published an operational update on the progress made on the Pilot Projects for asylum and return procedures and new financial support for Bulgaria and Romania. The Commission welcomes the progress made over the past three..
Bulgaria is to support and grant asylum to nearly 70 Afghan citizens and their families, announced this country’s caretaker Premier Stefan Yanev after the government meeting. The Afghan nationals worked in the Bulgarian Embassy in Kabul and together..
Bulgaria's Vice President Iliana Iotova has received the new representative in Bulgaria of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Narasimha Rao Nilagiri Lakshmi. The two discussed the conditions for refugees in Bulgaria in a pandemic situation. Iotova..
An Iraqi and 11 Syrians, who crossed the Bulgarian border illegally, have been detained on the land of the Svilengrad village of Generalovo (Southern Bulgaria), BNR correspondent from Haskovo Dora Atanasova reported. The migrants told the border police..
In the process of integration, any capsulation of foreigners should be avoided, caretaker Social Minister Galab Donev told the Bulgarian National Radio. He is among the authors of the new draft of regulations aimed at the integration of migrants..
At an extraordinary sitting, the cabinet repealed the decree on the integration of foreign nationals with right to asylum (ordinance No. 208), endorsed in 2016. The motive is that the document is ineffective and that since its endorsement not a..
About 3300 immigrants have been detained in this country since the beginning of 2016, said Deputy Interior Minister Philip Gounev. Most of them submit applications to asylum, however in practice they disappear from refugee centers and try to leave..
