UK: A Not So New Plan for Immigration Envisions to Crack Down People in Need of Protection
The Home Office has presented details of its plan to overhaul the UK asylum system, raising concerns among human rights advocates and posing practical challenges. On 24 March, the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel presented to parliament a New Plan for Immigration which...
AIDA 2020 Update: UK
The updated AIDA Country Report on the United Kingdom provides a detailed overview on legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2020. During 2020 the...
UK: Less Applications more Waiting – COVID Exposure, Sexual Harassment, Squalid Conditions, Unlawful Fees, Lack of Legal Aid for Detainees, and Deportation Raids
Asylum applications dropped in 2020 by 18 per cent, whilst the number of people awaiting a decision reached a new high. More than 50 per cent of the asylum seekers at the Napier Barracks were COVID positive, asylum seekers housed in hotels have been threatened and...