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For example, in 2013, 17,647 initial decisions on asylum claims were made by the Home Office, of which 5,734 (32.5 per cent) determined the applicant to be a refugee and granted them asylum, 53 (0.3 per cent) granted humanitarian protection and 540 (3.1 per cent) granted discretionary leave. 11,105 applications (62.9 per cent) were refused. [40]
Flora Thompson and Ian Jones, PA. August 22, 2024 at 7:12 AM. The UK’s asylum backlog dropped by almost a third in a year, but started to creep up again in the spring. Home Office figures show a ...
Formerly called. British Council for Aid to Refugees (BCAR) The Refugee Council is a UK based organisation which works with refugees and asylum seekers. The organisation provides support and advice to refugees and asylum seekers, as well as support for other refugee and asylum seeker organisations. The Refugee Council also produces many reports ...
National Asylum Support Service. The National Asylum Support Service (NASS) is a section of the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) division of the Home Office. It is responsible for supporting and accommodating people seeking asylum while their cases are being dealt with. [1] NASS was created in April 2000 under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The government insists the barge will be cheaper than hotels, where around 50,000 asylum seekers are currently housed at a cost of £6m a day but have refused to estimate the cost of each place.
MigrationWatch UK was founded in December 2001 [21] by Sir Andrew Green, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia.In an article in The Independent, Deborah Orr writes that the organisation came into being when, "after reading some of his anti-immigration letters in The Times", the then Sir Andrew approached David Coleman, Professor of Demography at Oxford University, and they subsequently set up ...
There were almost 30,000 asylum seekers in hotels across the UK at the end of June, Government figures showed. The total of 29,585 on June 30 was down from 34,530 at the end of March and from ...
The six charities making up the partnership delivering advice and other services to asylum seekers in each region of Britain funded by the Home Office, Welsh Government, and Scottish Government are: Refugee Council: London, East of England, Yorkshire and Humberside, West Midlands; Refugee Action: North West, East Midlands, South Central, South West