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Old May 26th, 2023 #7507
Stewart Meadows
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UK government has processed just 1% of asylum applications from small boat migrants last year


Of the 80,989 asylum claims made in the past five years by small boat migrants, just 16 percent have been processed, meaning some individuals have been living in Britain for five years without a confirmed right to do so

May 25, 2023
editor: REMIX NEWS author: THOMAS BROOKE



FILE - Migrants successfully cross the English Channel to reach the U.K. from the European mainland.

The U.K. Home Office has processed just 1 percent of the 45,000 individuals who entered Britain illegally and claimed asylum in the year to March, government figures revealed.

The data published on Thursday regarding the status of irregular migrants in Britain showed that 44,797 people that the government is aware of arrived on England’s southern shore via small boats from mainland Europe in the year to March 2023. Of those, 40,444 claimed asylum.

As of May 25, the government had only processed 504 claims, just over 1 percent of cases in the past year, granting asylum in 61 percent of those cases.

In fact, the government has only processed 16 percent of the 11,902 asylum cases submitted by small boat migrants dating back to 2018, meaning some of the 88,221 individuals arriving in Britain using this method have potentially been waiting five years for a decision on their asylum application.
https://rmx.news/migrant-crisis/uk-g...nts-last-year/