Category: "Asylum-Seekers"

Written by: Elizabeth Tsurkov Asylum-seekers who reside in Israel have to renew their visa every one to two months. Without a valid visa, asylum-seekers cannot work, access their bank accounts, and most importantly, face arrest and detention...

Dozens of asylum-seekers have been arrested in Israel in the past three weeks for not holding a valid visa – after the Ministry of Interior have been refusing, in the past two months, to renew visas of...

Written by: Adv. Asaf Weitzen For just over three years, I have been working for the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants as a lawyer. Almost throughout this entire period we have been dealing with the Anti-Infiltration Law...

Asylum-seekers often turn to us at the Hotline due to bureaucratic abuse at the hand of Ministry of Interior clerks, but we haven’t encountered such a kafkaesque story in a while. Mahari is an Eritrean asylum-seeker who...

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“On Tuesday, my visa ran out. My employer told me that I cannot work without a visa for even just one day, so I went on Monday to the new Ministry of Interior office in Bnei...