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In 2023, the UK government made initial decisions on 93,303 asylum applications - including people attached to them such as children or other dependents - and granted more than two thirds of them ...
A record number of Syrians applied for asylum in the year to September 2024.
The Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2226 (C. 75)), made on 13 August 2006, enacted the bulk of the Act's provisions including the sections on variation of leave to enter or remain, removal, grounds of appeal, failure to provide documents, refusal of leave to enter, deportation ...
In 2019, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged to reduce net migration to the UK (the number of people immigrating minus the number emigrating) below 250,000 per year. [3] Net migration to the UK reached a record high of 764,000 in 2022, [4] with immigration at 1.26 million and emigration at 493,000. [5]
The Gateway Protection Programme was a refugee resettlement scheme operated by the Government of the United Kingdom in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and co-funded by the European Union (EU), offering a legal route for a quota of UNHCR-identified refugees to be resettled in the UK.
The overall backlog of applications stood at 98,599 as of December 28. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
On the same day, the cabinet suspended decisions on asylum applications by Syrians for six months, following the fall of the Assad regime. [36] After Faber finished the Asylum Emergency Measures Act and the bill establishing a two-tier asylum system, they entered a shortened consultation period.
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