An Iraqi family relocated to Lithuania under the EU's refugee relocation program have decided not to appeal a court ruling refusing to grant them refugee status.
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The lawsuit against the Lithuanian state by a migrant family from Iraq who arrived in Lithuania last December under the European Union's refugee resettlement programme will help clarify refugee handling procedures, according to legal experts.
The first group of Iraqi refugees relocated to Lithuania through an EU programme arrived in Vilnius on Tuesday afternoon.
The list of potential asylum seekers to be resettled in Lithuania was longer, but after security tests officials decided to relocate only one family. At the moment, there is no new information about other refugees who could soon arrive in Lithuania, Deputy Interior Elvinas Jankevičius told reporters...
There a lack of inter-institutional cooperation in Lithuania as the Baltic country prepares to receive refugees, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė said on Monday after her visit to the Refugees Reception Centrė in Rukla, central Lithuania.
Every university of Lithuania intends to enrol between several and a few dozen refugees, financing their tuition.
Lithuanian border guards on Thursday handed over eight migrants from Iraq to their Polish counterparts, the State Border Guard Service said.
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A group of illegal migrants from Iraq have been apprehended in Lithuania near the border with Poland.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday will visit homes in St. Peter and St. Paul parish and together with Vilnius Archbishop Gintaras Grušas will meet with families from Iraq living there.
The Catholic Church of Lithuania plans to accept more Iraqi Christians who are being persecuted in their homeland, Vilnius Metropolitan Archbishop Gintaras Grušas, head of the Lithuanian Archbishops' Conference, says.
