A US-Iran channel shaped deportation flights as Tehran picked who was sent backNewly released emails reveal U.S. immigration officials worked with Iran to deport Iranians in 2025 and 2026. Iranian officials influenced ...
20 Aug, 2026, 10.07 AM IST
Former Syrian President Bashar Assad sentenced to death in absentia for war crimesA Syrian court sentenced ousted President Bashar Assad and two relatives to death. Atef Najib, convicted of overseeing a crackdown, receive...
11 Aug, 2026, 06.18 PM IST
Biden ex-adviser Ajay Bhutoria calls new US immigration rule ‘step backwards’USCIS now denies incomplete immigration applications without requesting more evidence. This policy change impacts thousands of Indian appli...
06 Aug, 2026, 08.41 AM IST
Peruvian ex-President Ollanta Humala released from prison after court overturns his 15-year money-laundering convictionOllanta Humala, the former President of Peru, has been released from prison following the annulment of his money-laundering conviction by t...
01 Aug, 2026, 08.45 AM IST
US Supreme Court nears the end of its term with momentous cases about Trump's power to be decidedThe Supreme Court is concluding a term dominated by President Trump's assertions of executive authority. Key decisions this week involve bi...
29 Jun, 2026, 09.42 AM IST
US Supreme Court sides with Trump in asylum-processing caseThe court, in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative justices, overturned a lower court's finding that the policy violated federal law. T...
25 Jun, 2026, 07.47 PM IST
US immigration custody death rate at decade high: Rights groupsThe rate of people dying in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody has reached its highest level in over a decade amid US Presid...
25 Jun, 2026, 11.16 AM IST
US rolls out new immigration fees, asylum rules that could hit applicants harderNew US immigration fees are set to take effect soon, impacting asylum seekers and those applying for arrival/departure records. Asylum appl...
01 May, 2026, 11.32 AM IST
US tightens visa interviews for non-immigrants, adds new asylum-related questionsAmerica has introduced new screening questions for visa applicants. These questions aim to identify individuals who might seek asylum after...
30 Apr, 2026, 02.23 PM IST
Appeals court says Trump's asylum ban at the border is illegal, agreeing with lower courtAn appeals court has blocked President Trump's executive order that suspended asylum access at the U.S. southern border. The ruling stated ...
24 Apr, 2026, 10.38 PM IST
Japan balances record arrivals with stricter immigration checksJapan's stricter immigration controls are yielding results, with overstayers declining for a second consecutive year despite record foreign...
11 Apr, 2026, 03.31 PM IST
Judge slams brakes on deportation, grants Kilmar Abrego Garcia a temporary reprieve until OctoberFederal judge Paula Xinis has temporarily stopped Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation. He is currently in a detention center in Virginia and...
27 Aug, 2025, 11.20 PM IST
Mexico refuses U.S. military flight deporting migrants amid rising tensions over immigration policiesMexico declined a U.S. military flight that was intended to deport migrants back to their home country.
25 Jan, 2025, 09.33 PM IST
US formally ends policy for asylum-seekers to wait in MexicoThe announcement appeared to be a foregone conclusion after Biden promised as a candidate to end the policy, known informally as "Remain in...
02 Jun, 2021, 09.16 AM IST
Mexico will hold US-bound refugees while claims processed: Donald TrumpAfter a trek of more than a month from Honduras, nearly 5,000 migrants - including women and children - are now in Tijuana living in a make...
25 Nov, 2018, 06.57 AM IST
Australia hands over 37 asylum seekers to Sri LankaAustralia has given two vessels to Sri Lanka's navy to patrol its shores and stop boats leaving the island, as part of Canberra's hardline ...
29 Nov, 2014, 02.51 PM IST
Snowden case: Why experts & activists disagree with govt's decision to deny asylumExperts point out that the problem lies in the fact that India refused to ratify the 1951 Refugee Convention, which set up a framework on a...
07 Jul, 2013, 01.15 PM IST