As a young Syrian man was picking up his friend, who was returning from Germany, from the Beirut airport, he relayed the story of how he migrated to Egypt, returned, and then was banned from traveling there again.
He said that when he decided to flee Syria, he came straight to the Beirut airport, and then moved to Cairo with his small family — consisting of his wife and child — after his mother, siblings and in-laws had moved there before him.
He lived in Cairo for a while and opened a restaurant and coffee shop to help his brothers, who had worked for him in Syria. Then, for work, he traveled from Egypt to Turkey for 15 days, then to Lebanon to return to Egypt and live there with his family. He applied for a visa at the Egyptian embassy in Beirut immediately after the Eid al-Fitr holiday. However, until now, he has not obtained the visa. Every time he asks about it, the embassy employees tell him that he has to check back in a couple of days. Later, a female employee told him in secret, “There’s no use trying. Syrians are now banned from entering Egypt. You will not get the visa.”
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http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/culture/2013/09/egypt-bans-syria-refugees-return.html
SWEDEN
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/503745/20130904/sweden-syria-asylum-seeker-refugees-permanent-residency.htm
ICELAND
http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/search/news/Default.asp?ew_0_a_id=402667
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