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...Peers in the upper house inflicted a series of defeats on the Rwanda asylum bill last month....
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...“There is no asylum accommodation strategy” at the Home Office, which had led to major problems of inadequate facilities across the asylum and immigration detention estate, said Neal in his first interview...
...It upgraded its agreement with Kigali to a binding treaty and introduced safeguards including a stipulation that no asylum seeker would be removed from Rwanda except back to the UK....
...In theory, asylum seekers threatened with removal can still appeal to the European Court of Human Rights....
...“Anyone applying for asylum in the EU could also be transferred to a safe third country and undergo the asylum process there....
...Rwanda hosts about 130,000 refugees and asylum seekers, according to the government, mostly from the DRC and Burundi....
...The government appeared to have “lost its grip on the way” aid money is spent, he added, and this was “weakening its ability to respond to urgent global crises and support long-term sustainable development...
...Sunak made “stopping the boats” that bring asylum seekers over the English Channel one of his core pre-election pledges....
...“We have always been clear that the use of asylum hotels is unacceptable, and that’s why we acted swiftly to reduce the impact on local communities by moving asylum seekers on to barges and former military...
...of each asylum seeker, to be paid out in instalments over a five-year period....
...The passage of the bill came after Sunak admitted flights to send asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda would not begin until the summer....
...Unsuccessful asylum seekers will be offered £3,000 to move to Rwanda instead of remaining in the UK under plans drawn up by Rishi Sunak’s government as it seeks to reduce the strain on Britain’s migration...
...The Rwandan government has called on the UK to stagger sending migrants once Sunak’s asylum bill becomes law in order to ensure adequate processing capacity....
...£5.4bn, as the cost of housing and caring for migrants awaiting an asylum decision swelled....
...The prime minister has been clear that he will tackle this major global challenge with bold and innovative solutions, and the Rwanda scheme is just that.”...
...That act bars anyone who enters the UK without prior permission from claiming asylum....
...His case appeared straightforward, according to Asylum Aid the charity helping him — about 98 per cent of asylum applications from Afghans in 2022 were successful, according to Home Office data....
...Enver Solomon, who heads the UK’s Refugee Council, said the only “sustainable way” to reduce crossings was to create more ways for people to safely apply for asylum....
...European countries are fortifying their borders with fences, fast-tracking asylum procedures in closed centres and outsourcing asylum processes to a string of countries on the edge of Europe, including the...
...The reforms stipulate that people could be rejected for asylum if they can be sent to a third country deemed safe....
...Sunak’s legislation aims to speed up removals of asylum seekers to Rwanda after the Supreme Court ruled the policy was unlawful....
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...But Sunak’s attempt to regain the political initiative was undermined by a rebuke from the UK Statistics Authority over his use of asylum data....
...Sir Keir Starmer has ruled out keeping Rishi Sunak’s controversial plan to send asylum seekers who arrive in the UK to Rwanda if he wins power....
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