Since the announcement from the Home Office this week regarding ‘the biggest asylum shake up this country has seen in decades’, human rights campaigners, immigration lawyers, and opposition politicians have widely criticised the lack of compassion...
Child asylum seekers’ mental health is being devastated due to the COVID-induced halt in the UK asylum system. Many are ‘psychologically and physically falling apart’ a new report finds. Last March, asylum claim interviews stalled...
As part of the home secretary’s ‘New Plan for Immigration’, officials will grant indefinite leave to remain to those arriving from approved ‘legal’ routes, hardening the make-believe boundary between those deserving and...
With this weekend marking the partial ending of a much-criticised and legally-challenged project to hold asylum seekers in disused army camps in the UK, the Home Office said nothing more about the closure of one of these sites on Sunday. From 21...
Gibraltar and Isle of Man distance themselves from UK offshoring plans, rejecting suggestions they could be used to temporarily hold asylum seekers on behalf of the UK. The two territories said the plan, believed to have been drawn up for the Home...