An appeal by an Irish couple facing deportation from Australia because their son has Cystic Fibrosis has been rejected.

A Dublin couple who emigrated to Australia a decade ago could be deported because their application for permanent residency could mean taxpayers there may have to pay for their son's cystic fibrosis treatment.

Australia has announced that the last child refugees held on the Pacific atoll of Nauru will soon be sent to the US, ending the banishment of children under the government's harsh asylum seeker policy.

A transitional deal is expected to be completed within three years of the UK leaving the European Union, according to the Chancellor.

Free movement will end when Britain leaves the European Union in March 2019, the Immigration Minister has said.

A total of 350 child refugees will be brought to Britain from Europe under the so-called Dubs Amendment, the Government has announced.

Ireland has taken in just 550 people caught up in the ongoing migrant crisis despite vowing to offer a home to 4,000 by next year.

Australia’s immigration minister has brought border security and immigration to the centre of the 2016 election campaign, warning that resettling “illiterate and innumerate” refugees would strain the social safety network and take Australian jobs.

The Home Office has ordered an urgent review of asylum seeker homes in England’s North East amid claims their red front doors marked them out to vandals and race hate yobs.

Seven men blamed for a riot that caused €6.4m worth of damage to a remote Australian immigration detention camp have been flown to a mainland prison.

A lawyer for a pregnant Somalia refugee rape victim said he wanted to seek a court order keeping her in Australia before the government suddenly flew her to Nauru without providing the abortion she had requested.

Australia plans to pass a law within weeks to give the government the power to strip citizenship from dual nationals who are suspected terrorists even if they are not convicted of a crime, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said today.

Refugees rejected by Australia will soon fly from the Pacific atoll of Nauru to be resettled in Cambodia.

One of two men charged with planning to launch an imminent terrorist attack in Australia appeared on a video threatening to stab the kidneys and necks of victims, the prime minister has said, accusing the pair of "monstrous extremism".

Around 150 Australians are fighting with militants in Syria and Iraq, raising fears of a terrorist threat if they return home.

Net migration into Britain has fallen by more than a third, according to fresh figures released today as the number of immigrants arriving in the country dropped ”significantly”.

Closer co-operation between the UK and Ireland will help crack down on illegal immigration, ministers said today.

Britain's prison population reached a record high today as officials said they were developing contingency plans to manage the unprecedented situation caused by hundreds of people being jailed over the riots.

Australia’s plan to expel asylum seekers to Malaysia as part of a new refugee swap deal was today delayed for at least two weeks until the Australian High Court can rule on its legality.

A PAKISTANI national convicted of child sex offences in Britain has been deported, the Home Office said yesterday.

A boatload of 32 asylum seekers found in Australian waters will be the first to be sent to Malaysia, Papua New Guinea or another country under a contentious new strategy to deter future refugees from making the same journey, an official said today.

Up to 181,000 migrants who should have gone home over the past two years alone could still be in the UK illegally, figures showed today.

Migrants coming to the UK from outside the EU are to be banned from working as chefs in fast food outlets and takeaways, the British government said.

Rescuers were returning to treacherous seas today to hunt for any possible survivors after a wooden boat smuggling up to 100 asylum seekers smashed against the cliffs of Christmas Island, Australia, tossing people overboard and killing at least 28.

THE European Commission backed off prosecuting France for targeting groups of Roma gypsies for expulsion, but is threatening to move against the country over its failure to bring the relevant EU legislation into national law.

The EU is threatening to take legal action against France for targeting and deporting Roma migrants.

FRANCE came under fresh fire for expelling Roma migrants yesterday as the European Parliament demanded it “immediately suspend” removal of the Gypsies.

France today promised to continue dismantling illegal gypsy encampments and sending their inhabitants back to Eastern Europe despite widespread international criticism.

FRANCE defied mounting international criticism of its crackdown on Roma and Gypsy minorities yesterday, sending another planeload back to eastern Europe.

Banning the wearing of burkas in public would be “rather un-British”, the country's Immigration Minister said today as he attacked efforts to make it illegal in this country.

About 20 low-risk offenders are to take part in a pilot electronic tagging scheme this autumn, it was revealed today.

Australia has announced today that it will no longer accept refugee claims from Sri Lankans and Afghans, saying the situations in those countries has improved enough that their people may no longer need to seek protection elsewhere.

France has stopped returning illegal immigrants to Haiti following the massive earthquake.

FRANCE yesterday defended its decision to close a makeshift migrant camp known as “The Jungle” as the UN refugee body warned it had a duty towards people fleeing the world’s war zones.

French police held nearly 200 people without papers in a mass identity check around Calais today.

Two of the 12 men arrested over an alleged al-Qaida plot worked for a cargo company which has access to secure areas inside airports, it was reported today.

British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was back at her desk today after the latest damaging disclosures about her parliamentary expenses.

An Indian doctor jailed without charge in Australia last year in a bungled counterterrorism case will seek compensation from the government, he and his lawyer said today.

POLICE issued a murder and kidnapping warrant yesterday for the father of a three-year-old girl abandoned in Australia after her mother’s body was found stuffed in the boot of a car in New Zealand.

Australian police continue to suspect that an Indian doctor was part of the failed British bombing conspiracy last month despite a charge against him being dropped for lack of evidence, a government minister said.

An Indian doctor will be allowed to leave Australia after prosecutors dropped a charge linking him to the recent failed terrorist bombings in Britain, an official said today.

The Australian government has come under fire from civil libertarians and supporters of an Indian doctor accused of links to the failed car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow.

The Australian government said today that a doctor allegedly linked to the failed British car bomb terror plot would be detained for immigration breaches, overriding a magistrate who had earlier granted him bail.