Over the past year, the number of deportations and repatriations of third-country nationals illegally residing in the territory of the Republic of Cyprus has increased by more than 800 people.

From the beginning of 2024 to the present day, 6,800 people have been deported or repatriated, which is significantly higher than the figure for the same period last year, when the total number was 5,977 people.

Cyprus Police spokesman Christos Andreou said that every week about 200 third-country nationals return to their homeland as a result of operations conducted by the police in cooperation with other competent authorities. These operations are aimed at identifying and repatriating illegal immigrants living in Cyprus.

On August 20, 2024, the Cypriot police took part in a joint operation to return illegal immigrants organized by Greece under the coordination of the European Union Agency for External Border Security FRONTEX. During the operation, 7 people illegally residing in Cyprus were repatriated, these were citizens of Pakistan and Georgia. This is the ninth participation of the Cypriot authorities in such operations in 2024.

“There is a certain process in which persons whose presence is recognized as illegal are detained, and then either deported by decree or repatriated, if they so wish, to their countries,” explained Christos Andreu. According to him, among the repatriated citizens are immigrants from Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, African countries and other countries.

The Police and the Aliens and Immigration Service continue to strengthen operations aimed at identifying illegal immigrants in order to further increase the number of repatriated third-country nationals.

A source: omegalive.com.cy

Photo: edition.cnn.com

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