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But that ruling was reversed by a 2-1 decision in the Court of Appeal that found that while it was not unlawful to send asylum-seekers to a safe third country, Rwanda could not be deemed safe.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government will retain a ban on asylum seekers being able to claim protections under modern slavery and other human rights laws, even as its ministers have ...
By Andrew MacAskill. LONDON (Reuters) - The British government is planning to pay asylum seekers up to 3,000 pounds ($3,836) each to move to Rwanda under a voluntary plan to help clear the backlog ...
There is also a Public Performance Target to remove more asylum seekers who have been judged not to be refugees under the international definition than new anticipated unfounded applications. This target was met early in 2006. [111] Official figures for numbers of people claiming asylum in the UK were at a 13-year low by March 2006. [112]
On 2 May 2024, forty-five protesters were arrested after obstructing a coach moving asylum seekers in Peckham, London, on the way to the barge. [47] The Bibby Stockholm 's contract to hold asylum seekers expired in January 2025, after which it was not renewed. [48] The final eight asylum seekers left the barge at the end of November 2024. [49]
Home Office figures show a total of 118,882 people were waiting for an initial decision on an asylum application in the UK at the end of June 2024. UK’s asylum backlog creeping up after 32% dip ...
UK Home Secretary James Cleverly with Rwandan Foreign Secretary Vincent Biruta in December 2023, after signing a new treaty related to the asylum plan.. The UK and Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership, [3] also known as the Rwanda asylum plan, [4] [5] was a policy that was announced in a speech by British prime minister Boris Johnson on 14 April 2022. [6]
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 ...