Slovenia News & Updates: Travel, Visas, Residency, and More

A new train route will connect Milan and Ljubljana in seven hours, following a new agreement reached between Italian train transport company, Trenitalia and SŽ Passenger Transport, or Slovenian Railways. If Trainitalia decides to proceed, the new service could begin...

Slovenia welcomed 27 citizens of Afghanistan last week, which would make this group mainly consist of family members, the second group of resettled refugees from Türkiye. The initiative is part of the country's permanent resettlement project. This follows the arrival...

More than 2,700 Iraqis have entered Slovenia trying to reach other European countries in the last two years, a Slovenian police official told Rudaw. Of those, 1,579 Iraqis arrived through the Croatia border in 2022, and an additional 1,150 entered...

Slovenia will provide temporary facilities for handling migrants at the Obrežje border crossing with Croatia, the authorities announced on Thursday, January 18. The government made this decision in response to ongoing migration challenges, . Slovenian authorities plan to set up a...

The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia has revealed that last year, the country saw a total of 35,613 individuals making the country their new home through immigration. A majority of these newcomers, constituting 61 per cent, fell within...

Slovenia has decided to extend internal border controls with Croatia and Hungary for another six months once the current measure stops being effective. The current measure is set to end on December 21, and as soon as it ends, the...

The Slovenian government has reminded travellers that it is essential for those embarking on holiday travel to ensure in good time that their travel documents are suitable and valid for international travel. The same states that the average processing time...

The Slovenian government has decided to extend its internal border controls with Croatia and Hungary for another 12 days once the current measure ends. Citing security concerns in the border region, the government said that controls at its internal Schengen...

Foreign nationals seeking to extend their temporary residence permit for family reunification purposes are now required to have Slovenian language proficiency, the authorities have announced. The new measure has come into force on November 16 as an urgent amendment to...

Ljubljana will continue to insist that Austria's control of the internal Schengen border with Slovenia is an “ineffective” and “disproportionate” measure, the country’s government has told SchengenVisaInfo.com. Despite these estimates, controls along the 330-kilometre border dividing the two EU states...

In response to potential security risks in the border region, Slovenia has announced the extension of border checks at its internal Schengen border with Croatia and Hungary for another 20 days once the current measure ends. Temporary border controls with...

The Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said that Italy and Slovenia aim to drop the internal border controls with one another as soon as such a measure is no longer necessary. Prime Minister Meloni's statement regarding the restoration of...

Austria has decided to extend border controls with Hungary and Slovenia for another six months, until May 2024. Announcing the news, the Austrian Ministry of Interior said that the decision to extend the border controls with these two countries has...

Interior Minister of Slovenia Boštjan Poklukar, together with his counterparts from Italy, Matteo Piantedosi, and Croatia, Davor Božinović, have urged to strengthen cooperation in patrolling the borders along the Western Balkan route. Their comments came during a trilateral meeting held...

Slovenia's population experienced an increase during the second quarter of this year,, primarily attributed to positive net migration, the Statistical Office of Slovenia has revealed. The same source revealed that the number of net migrations in Slovenia in the second...