Migration

Immigration

Vietnamese police pay a visit to Montagnards

Vietnamese police visited a group of Montagnards in Phnom Penh on Tuesday in an effort to persuade them to return to Vietnam, where the asylum-seekers claim to have fled systematic government persecution, a member of the group said on Wednesday. ...

Khuon Narim and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnamese-police-pay-a-visit-to-montagnards-113833/

Government readies new Nauru visit to meet refugees

The Interior Ministry has made tentative plans to send a delegation of three people to the South Pacific island of Nauru next month to meet and vet two more refugees who have volunteered to resettle in Cambodia.   ...

Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-readies-new-nauru-visit-to-meet-refugees-112947/

Gov’t headed to Nauru soon over potential resettlements

Cambodian refugee officials are expected to arrive on the shores of chaotic Nauru this month to interview two Iranian refugees about resettling in the Kingdom under a controversial deal with Australia.   ...

Erin Handley and Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-headed-nauru-soon-over-potential-resettlements

Two more nauru refugees volunteer to resettle in Cambodia

Two more refugees being held by Australia in an offshore detention facility have volunteered to relocate to Cambodia, an immigration official said on Wednesday, a sign that the teetering resettlement deal between the two countries has yet to run its course. ...

Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-more-nauru-refugees-volunteer-to-resettle-in-cambodia-112184/

Authorities given 10 days to collect foreigners’ papers in capital

Foreigners living in certain areas of Phnom Penh have 10 days to show their documents to police so the government can complete registering foreign nationals by the end of the year. Those found to have overstayed their visas or entered the country illegally will be ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24040/authorities-given-10-days-to-collect-foreigners----papers-in-capital/

Montagnard asylum seeker kills himself

A Montagnard asylum seeker was found dead on Wednesday morning in a Phnom Penh residence provided by the U.N.’s refugee agency, having committed suicide in his room, according to police. ...

Kang Sothear and Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/111572-111572/

Government calls Rohingya refugee ‘a liar’

Cambodian and Australian officials on Sunday denied claims made by a Rohingya refugee from Burma over the weekend that he was being poorly treated in Phnom Penh, with the Interior Ministry’s refugee director calling the man “a liar.” ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-calls-rohingya-refugee-a-liar-109826/

Montagnards ‘to be processed’

Immigration officials yesterday sought to dial back public remarks by Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak, who on Wednesday appeared to tell reporters that the more than 100 Montagnard asylum seekers currently waiting to have their claims assessed would be summarily deported. ...

Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/montagnards-be-processed

Remaining montagnards not refugees, ministry says

Less than a month after the government announced that more than 170 Montagnard asylum seek­ers would have their refugee applications processed, an Interior Min­istry spokesman said on Wednesday that the group had not met the criteria for refugee status and would be returned to Vietnam. ...

Khuon Narim and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/remaining-montagnards-not-refugees-ministry-says-108113/

Gov’t, UNHCR to share refugee responsibilities

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) yesterday said that it would divide between itself and the Cambodian government the duties of processing and potentially relocating the scores of Montagnard asylum seekers whose claims the government finally agreed to hear on Wednesday. ...

Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-unhcr-share-refugee-responsibilities

Gov’t U-turn on Montagnard refugees

In a seeming about-face, the government has backed away from its looming deadline to deport more than 100 Montagnards currently seeking asylum in Cambodia, instead pledging to “expedite” the process of assessing their refugee status. ...

Daniel de Carteret and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-u-turn-montagnard-refugees

Deportation figures triple

A year-long crackdown on illegal immigration equated to a threefold increase in deportations in the first 11 months of 2015, with 4,312 foreigners sent home versus just 1,307 in the same period last year, according to a Department of Immigration report obtained yesterday. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deportation-figures-triple

Fifth refugee from Australia’s Nauru camps enters Cambodia

Officials with the Interior Ministry and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Thursday that a fifth person from Australia’s refugee camps on Nauru had arrived in Cambodia, but declined to provide any details. ...

Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fifth%E2%80%88refugee-from-australias-nauru-camps-enters-cambodia-101376/

UN criticizes Australian refugee policy

Australia’s refugee policies were condemned during a review by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Australia automatically detains asylum-seekers who arrive in the country without visas. Hundreds of detainees are sent for processing to offshore camps in the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea and ...

Phil Mercer
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/un-criticizes-australian-refugee-policy/3053177.html

Nearly 170 Chinese ‘scammers’ deported

Early yesterday morning, 168 Chinese nationals were deported from Cambodia, following their arrest last month for allegedly using the Kingdom as a base from which to extort money from victims in China, police said. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nearly-170-chinese-scammers-deported

Gov’t says only one refugee from Nauru coming

Immigration department director Sok Phal said Tuesday that Cambodia will be taking in only one of the two refugees who volunteered to resettle here during a delegation’s visit to Australia’s refugee center on the South Pacific island of Nauru in late September, but did not ...

Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-says-only-one-refugee-from-nauru-coming-99248/

Nigerians decry immigration raid at church

About 400 parishioners at the Christian Evangelical International Ministry in Phnom Penh were singing hymns when 15 armed police officers rushed through the doors on Saturday and rounded up all of the Nigerian men present, according to Peter Ike, a preacher’s assistant at the church. ...

Sek Odom and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nigerians-decry-immigration-raid-at-church-99082/

Number of foreigners deported ramps up

The government deported 2,420 people from the Kingdom in the first nine months of 2015, according to updated figures from the General Department of Immigration released on the National Police website on Wednesday.​ ...

Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/number-foreigners-deported-ramps

Cambodian refugees in US reflect on failures in resettlement

As the United States commits to admitting 10,000 refugees from the current conflict in Syria, Cambodian refugees who arrived in the U.S. some 35 years ago say more needs to be done to help refugees resettle in order to prevent further suffering and future social ...

Elizabeth Lee
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-refugees-united-states-reflect-resettlement/3016575.html

Cambodian refugees deported after decades in US

Vuthy Tik was born in Cambodia. He and his family arrived in the United States in 1982 after having fled the war between Khmer Rouge forces and advancing Vietnamese troops. In 2002, the US threatened Cambodia with aid cuts if it did not agree to ...

Nathan A. Thompson
https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/cambodian-refugees-deported-decades-us-084628412.html

Refugees resettled in Cambodia reportedly move into private accommodation

Refugees resettled in Cambodia as part of a multi-million-dollar deal with Australia have reportedly moved into private accommodation, five months after arriving in the Asian nation. ...

Stephanie Anderson
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-20/refugees-resettled-in-cambodia-moved-into-private-accomodation/6870970

Refugees from Nauru are searching for jobs

The first group of refugees to arrive in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal the government signed with Australia last year are now renting their own apartments and searching for jobs, having left their temporary accommodations in Phnom Penh, the International Organization for Migration ...

George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/refugees-from-nauru-are-searching-for-jobs-97455/

Refugees from Nauru move out of Phnom Penh villa

The first group of refugees to arrive in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal the government struck with Australia a year ago have moved out of their temporary accommodations in Phnom Penh, the Australian government said Thursday. ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/refugees-from-nauru-move-out-of-phnom-penh-villa-97334/

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