Final week the asylum course of formally got moving again because the Unlawful Migration Act 2023 (Modification) Laws 2024 got here into power and so I assumed it was an excellent alternative to overview the highs and lows of final 12 months’s backlog clearance train. The impression evaluation for the brand new laws offers an
The Illegal Migration Act 2023 (Amendment) Regulations 2024 have ended the prohibition on grants of go away for individuals who have claimed asylum. The impact of the rules is to consolidate the inadmissibility backlogs as broken down by me previously. All instances at present sitting within the inadmissibility course of will now be handled beneath
A current response to a Freedom of Information request reveals that there was a pointy enhance within the variety of folks being invited to a couple of substantive asylum interview. In 2022, a complete of 4,144 asylum candidates have been invited to a couple of substantive interview. In 2023 this elevated to 17,264 candidates. Choice
The Asylum Assist Tribunal has discovered that there’s a proper of enchantment in opposition to a call to cease an individual’s asylum assist the place their asylum declare has been deemed withdrawn by the House Workplace, for instance the place the substantive asylum interview was missed. The House Workplace steering “Ceasing Section 95 Support instruction”,
Following final 12 months’s legacy backlog clearance train, the backlog of instances has shifted to both finish of the asylum course of. There are tens of hundreds of instances which can be sitting within the inadmissibility course of and never even being thought-about, after which there are additionally tens of hundreds of instances that have
Again and again we hear that refugees ought to declare asylum within the first secure nation the attain. There are variations on the theme. Real refugees declare asylum within the first secure nation. Refugees ought to and even should declare asylum within the first secure nation. The asylum seekers coming to the UK from France
This piece is about refugees, asylum seekers, and the Refugee Conference. It outlines who generally is a refugee, and the way being a refugee and having “refugee status” are two very various things. We additionally discover the rights and entitlements accessible to refugees and to asylum seekers awaiting the result of their declare, and the
The House Workplace has revealed statistics for the interval January to March 2024 exhibiting a marked drop within the grant fee for asylum instances, tens of hundreds of EU Settlement Scheme functions rejected as invalid, and a charge waiver backlog that appears to be quickly spiralling uncontrolled. My full write up is under and the
On Monday the Dwelling Workplace up to date the guidance documents referring to removals to Rwanda and retroactively amended the Rwanda settlement to incorporate the potential for sending failed asylum seekers there. This was completed by way of a letter from the British High Commissioner in Rwanda to Rwanda’s Everlasting Secretary Ministry of International Affairs
Following a authorized problem, the small group of Sri Lankan folks in search of asylum in Diego Garcia have been granted bail in order that they can entry extra of the island past the tiny encampment they have been stored in beforehand. We now have beforehand revealed a post offering the historic context of Diego