Greece to legalise 1/4m immigrants

Athens - The Greek government is set to legalise some 250,000 illegal Albanian immigrants already working in Greece, government…

Athens - The Greek government is set to legalise some 250,000 illegal Albanian immigrants already working in Greece, government officials said yesterday.

A law passed in June for residence permits to be given to foreign workers did not include immigrants coming from coun tries sharing land borders with Greece - Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

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