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Around 600 Afghan interpreters are to be offered the chance to settle in Britain after an apparent coalition rethink. About half the staff working ...
For the last few months I have been examining the reasons why so many of the decisions to refuse asylum are being overturned by Immigration Judges here in the UK. Home Office statistics show that 25% of initial decisions to refuse asylum, are being overturned.
Staff in the UK Border Agency have been told their jobs will stay exactly the same - despite the Home Secretary trumpeting sweeping reforms to the und...
Within the two-tiered system, asylum seekers waiting for their cases to be heard receive Section 95 support at just over £6 per day while individuals whose cases have been refused but who cannot be returned are on Section 4 support.
Picture this, first year of Uni. Cabin fever in halls. Too many conversations that went "what A-levels did you do?", "where did you go on your gap yah?" I was searching for normal people who woke up before 4pm. For people who didn't smell of stale beer and a garlic kebabs.
A failed asylum seeker who went on hunger strike after immigration officials confiscated his passport today told a High Court judge he was "living lik...
very day we hear about children and families living in poverty in Britain. Yesterday was the final day of evidence at the Parliamentary inquiry on support of children and families seeking asylum. The inquiry is the first formal review of the asylum support system since 2009 and has revealed evidence of systemic poverty, deprivation, and negative impacts on the lives of children.
At the heart of the Abu Qatada case is a dispiriting lesson for those relying on the UK's once honourable track record as a haven for dissidents: the rich, famous, notorious or powerful still have a better chance of justice.
The UK Border Agency is once again being slammed by the Home Affairs Select Committee in their report out today. And rightly so.
MPs have warned that attempts by the UK border agency to close a backlog of cases "the population of Iceland" could lead to a significant number of im...
An Afghan interpreter who was blown up by a Taliban bomb whilst working with British forces is to have his failed asylum bid reconsidered in an embarr...
A young woman killed after an asylum seeker allegedly drove the wrong way down a motorway was a university-educated aspiring model, her family has rev...
Around 7,000 women claim asylum in the UK in their own right each year. Not only have the majority of these women experienced sexual violence before they reach the UK, but the evidence is clear that they face an increased risk of sexual exploitation and abuse once here.
Officials at an immigration removal centre were too dismissive of reports from detainees claiming to be victims of torture, inspectors have said. T...
The photo-journalist from Cameroon who grabbed national headlines has come back to his wife, Sharon in Sheffield and told the Huffington Post that...
An Olympic athlete has walked into a police station and asked for asylum in the UK. It is understood the male competitor turned up at the Bridewell...
Despite their political differences, there is something that binds Boris Johnson, Nick Clegg and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy: they all descend from refugees.
A failed asylum seeker who murdered his girlfriend the day after he was told he would be deported back to Iran has been jailed for 10.5 years. Ako ...
After fleeing his homeland of Cameroon in 2007, Bernard Mboueyeu made his way to the steel city of Sheffield. As a charity worker and volunteer he gave back to the community that took him in as an asylum seeker and now he may have to leave.
Almost half of women seeking asylum in Britain have fallen victim to rape in their home countries, according to a report published by a refugee suppor...
Michael Gove has raised concerns over the practice of giving children seeking asylum in the UK X-rays, amid fears they could be exposed to radiation. ...
An Afghan asylum seeker was taken out of his Croydon school and removed from his foster family after Italian authorities claimed the 15-year-old boy w...
Asylum seekers are those, in the main, who are escaping war and/or have stood up to tyranny and injustice from their rulers. They are courageous people that need to be admired, not vilified.
Victims of torture are being held in detention while their asylum claims are assessed due to an unsuitable screening process, inspectors have claimed....
The Home Office has paid compensation of more than £1m, plus £1m costs, in a case involving 40 child asylum seekers who were wrongly detained as adu...
