Topic: asylum

A Cuban couple living in a converted shipping container in West Bay says they are struggling to survive as they await repatriation with their infant daughter and three-year-old autistic son.

Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica and Guyana have confirmed that they will be accepting asylum-seekers and deportees from the US.

Just $668,000 has been budgeted for asylum services in each of the next two years – $2 million less than is projected to have been spent this year, the Opposition leader has said.

Four men who are seeking asylum in the Cayman Islands landed in Cayman Brac in a small wooden rowing boat on Friday, 22 Sept.

Government is looking to expand the Immigration Detention Centre to increase accommodation for Cuban asylum seekers and move them out of the Bodden Town Civic Centre, Deputy Premier Chris Saunders has said.

Relief may be on the horizon for Cuban couple Javier Freites and his wife, Erica Alvarez-Freites, as government moves to remedy their plight.

Cuban political refugee Javier Freites and his wife, Erica Alvarez-Freites, have vowed to continue protesting outside Government Administration Building, as they pleaded for their marriage to be recognised and Alvarez-Freites to be granted residency and employment rights.

Customs and Border Control is reviewing possible amendments to the section of Cayman Islands law covering asylum, following months of demonstrations by Cuban protesters over government’s denial of refugee marriage rights.

Two migrants – one a Cuban man, the other an unidentified woman – have been granted asylum in the Cayman Islands after initially being denied.

The year 2018 was an eventful one for the Cayman Islands.

Seven Cuban migrants who were denied asylum by government have appealed their cases to the Grand Court, where a two-day hearing began on Tuesday.