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Sep 5, 2021 · The Bill is also the first step in enabling the Home Secretary to develop an Australian-style offshore processing system for asylum seekers. It does so through the expansion of large-scale accommodation centres, the introduction of ‘designated places’ from which people may claim asylum, and the newfound ability of the state to remove asylum ...
Apr 19, 2024 · Rishi Sunak’s plan to fly people seeking asylum to Rwanda this spring appears to have been put back to the summer after House of Lords insisted on changes to the scheme. On Thursday the prime ...
The UK asylum system is strictly controlled and complex. It is very difficult for people seeking asylum to provide the evidence required to be granted protection. Despite these challenges, the majority of asylum claims are successful. In the year ending June 2022, 76% of initial decisions resulted in a grant of asylum or other form of protection.
Asylum seekers must now be granted access to the labour market after nine months of waiting for a decision on their asylum (the previous period in place was 12 months). In 2010 the Supreme Court held that an asylum seeker awaiting a decision in an asylum claim should be entitled to work under the terms of the Directive
Out of the UK’s 374 unitary and lower-tier local authorities (Office for National Statistics, 2021), 210 were recorded as having at least one asylum seeker registered there as of 31 December 2021, meaning that 164 (44%) were recorded as having no asylum seeker registered (although the data also include 401 asylum seekers in an “Unknown ...
Mar 3, 2015 · Australia has a long history of accepting refugees for resettlement and over 800,000 refugees and displaced persons have settled in Australia since 1945. There is a difference between an asylum seeker and a refugee—asylum seekers are people seeking international protection but whose claims for refugee status have not yet been determined.
Mar 5, 2015 · Within the asylum process, sexuality is still largely defined by a conformity to stereotypes and expectations about what gay sex involves. In my research with lesbian asylum seekers, women who had ...
