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An asylum-seeker on board a barge housing migrants off the south coast of England has died and a police investigation has been launched, British officials said Tuesday. A Dorset Police ...
Since 2014 the number of refugees seeking asylum in Spain has increased greatly and Spain has received criticism for what has been perceived as a failure to keep up with these numbers. Spain has offered to provide asylum to 17,337 refugees by September 2017, however, only 744 of which were extended asylum status in the country by July 2017. [210]
In 2021, a 29 year-old asylum seeker in the UK was given a £100,000 hospital bill after suffering a stroke which left him in a coma and paralysed. He had stopped taking anti-stroke medication due to having been previously charged £6,000 for the treatment.
An asylum seeker may have applied for Convention refugee status or for complementary forms of protection. Asylum is thus a category that includes different forms of protection. Which form of protection is offered depends on the legal definition that best describes the asylum seeker's reasons to flee. Once the decision was made the asylum seeker ...
The number of people waiting for an initial decision on their asylum application to the UK almost quadrupled in the last five years from 29,522 in December 2017 to 122,206 in June 2022, according ...
For example, one Facebook post shows the question “How many asylum seekers have committed crimes in the UK?”, followed by an answer saying: “The statistics show that the asylum-group is ...
In 2022, the UK started working on the Rwanda asylum plan, whereby illegal immigrants or asylum seekers would have been relocated to Rwanda for processing, asylum and resettlement. The plan faced some legal issues, but it received legal clearance from the High Court . [ 79 ]
The last asylum seekers living on the Bibby Stockholm are set to leave the barge. A group of eight remaining men will leave the accommodation moored in Portland, Dorset, on Tuesday, according to a ...