UK: Record Number of Asylum Requests Granted but Huge Backlogs Remain and Channel Crossings and Deaths Continue ― Demands for Enquiries into Maritime Search and Rescue Responses and Treatment of Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children ― More Setbacks for Rwanda Bill Amid Revelations About High Costs of Policy ― Agreement to Work with “Calais Group” to Disrupt Supply of Small Boats ― Minister Discusses Possible Migration Co-operation with Libya

UK: Record Number of Asylum Requests Granted but Huge Backlogs Remain and Channel Crossings and Deaths Continue ― Demands for Enquiries into Maritime Search and Rescue Responses and Treatment of Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children ― More Setbacks for Rwanda Bill Amid Revelations About High Costs of Policy ― Agreement to Work with “Calais Group” to Disrupt Supply of Small Boats ― Minister Discusses Possible Migration Co-operation with Libya

The latest Home Office statistics show that over 62,000 people were granted refugee status or other protection in 2023 but that more than 95,000 were still awaiting an initial decision while hundreds more people have crossed the Channel in small boats and a child has...
UK: Changes to Ukraine Visa Scheme Amid Housing Concerns ― UN Issues Damning Report on Situation of Asylum Seekers on Diego Garcia ― UK Signs ‘Working Arrangement’ with Frontex

UK: Rwanda Bill Moves a Step Closer to Adoption as Rwandan President Casts Doubt on the Scheme and UNHCR Questions its Legality, More Migrants Die Trying to Cross the Channel, Asylum Accommodation Set to Be Excluded from New Legislation Covering Safety of Social Housing

MPs have approved the Rwanda bill at third reading but the Rwandan President has suggested that the UK’s efforts to implement the scheme cannot go on indefinitely and the UNHCR has called it incompatible with international law. Five migrants have died while trying to...
UK: Changes to Ukraine Visa Scheme Amid Housing Concerns ― UN Issues Damning Report on Situation of Asylum Seekers on Diego Garcia ― UK Signs ‘Working Arrangement’ with Frontex

UK: Government’s Claim On Clearance Of Asylum Backlog Widely Criticised, Questions Over Prime Minister’s Commitment To Rwanda Scheme Amid Preparation for Next Steps, New Details Emerge About The Death Of The Asylum Seeker On The Bibby Stockholm Barge And Humanitarian NGOs Start Medical Programme At UK Asylum Centre, UK’s Efforts to Decrease Boats Crossings Criticised By French Court, Home Office Report Fails To Include Any New Safe And Legal Routes

The Government’s claim to have cleared the backlog of legacy asylum applications has been widely criticised. The roommate of the asylum seeker who died on the Bibby Stockholm in December 2023 has described unbearable conditions on the barge, and two humanitarian NGOs...