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Compared with other European countries, the UK has the 19th largest intake of asylum seekers when measured by per head of population. There has been an increase in asylum claims in the UK since ...
A total of 160,919 asylum seekers were waiting for an initial decision on their claim at the end of December. UK asylum backlog hits new record of 160,000 Skip to main content
In 2021, net migration to the UK was 488,000, [85] [86] up from 184,000 in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic. [87] Net migration to the UK reached a record high of 764,000 in 2022, with immigration at 1.26 million and emigration at 493,000. [7] Most of the migrants came from non-EU countries, including India, Nigeria, China and Pakistan.
The British government has been given powers to detain asylum seekers and migrants at any stage of the asylum process. [21] The use of asylum has increased with the introduction of the process of "fast track", or the procedure by which the Immigration Service assess asylum claims which are capable of being decided quickly.
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 total of 118,882 people were waiting for an initial decision ...
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]
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If migrants who prove themselves to be from several countries arrive in England through illegal means, upon arrival the UK Government is unlikely to reject their claims to asylum. In 2019 at least 1,890 migrants arrived from France via small boats; the Home Office reported that only around 125 were returned to other European countries. [12]