Refugees chosing Lithuanian rather than Latvia or Estonia (updated)
August 10, 2007 at 9:18 am 3 comments
According to the news portal balsas.lt the refugees are keener to chose Lithuania rather than Latvia or Estonia. Lithuania received 312, Latvia – 19 and Estonia 8 refugees this year so far. 246 of the refugees to Lithuania came from Russia.
As the BNS informed additionally 17 Afghan citizens, 7 Georgian nationals, 5 Armenians and Belarusians and 4 nationals from Morocco and Uzbekistan, 3 individuals from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan and Nepal have applied for asylum in Lithuania.
Lithuanian institutions have received to applications from 2 Somali citizens and one citizen of Nigeria, Moldova, Cuba, Israel and Kongo each.
Another 5 persons have asked for asylum in Lithuanian possessing no citizenship whatsoever.
Refugee status this year has been granted to as few as 8 applicants — 4 of them came from Uzbekistan, 3 from Eritrea and another one from Belarus. These people were given permit for permanent residence in the country.
Entry filed under: Baltic States, Estonia, EU, Latvia, Lithuania, Northern Europe, Politics, Russia, Totalitarian regimes.
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nice | August 27, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Nice.. Here in Finland our wonderful goverment gathers about 5000 somalians here EVERY YEAR !!!