Almost 1,000 asylum seekers are allowed to stay in UK to escape sexual persecution in their country

Almost 1,000 asylum seekers are allowed to stay in UK to escape sexual persecution in their home country Almost 1,000 gay, lesbian or bisexual applicants were offered sanctuary in 2018   Home Office sources say that homosexuality putting a person at risk was one of the main arguments made in last-minute legal challenges to deportation  501 … Read more

Locals outraged at plan to house 500 asylum seekers in portacabins on MoD land in Hampshire village

Locals have reacted with ‘horror’ to a proposal to house 500 asylum seekers in portable cabins near a picturesque village near one of the south’s busiest trunk roads. The plan is for the asylum applicants to be stay in the makeshift housing on Ministry of Defence land by the A303 at Barton Stacey, Hants, while … Read more

Ministers plan new law to make it harder for adult asylum seekers to pose as children

Ministers plan new law to make it harder for adult asylum seekers to pose as children after more than 2,000 attempt to hoodwink authorities in the past five years By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 16:24 GMT, 2 December 2020 | Updated: 16:24 GMT, 2 December 2020 Ministers are planning a law change … Read more

Queen’s cousin blasts asylum plot in The Crown as ‘fantasy’

Queen’s cousin blasts The Crown over ‘fantasy’ plot about monarch’s relatives ‘certified as lunatics’ and left to rot in mental asylum – saying it caused ‘frustration’ in the family By Elliot Mulligan For The Daily Mail Published: 01:59 GMT, 2 December 2020 | Updated: 02:20 GMT, 2 December 2020 A cousin of the Queen has … Read more

Haunting photos in an abandoned Irish mental asylum

These creepy images reveal the haunting remains of an abandoned Irish lunatic asylum which was once overcrowded with mentally ill patients who were forced into straitjackets and padded cells.   The mental hospital in Ballinasloe, which opened in 1833 to take care of ‘curable lunatics’ and ‘dangerous idiots’ who were sometimes sent away from prisons and workhouses … Read more

Priti Patel vows to reform asylum law tackling deportation delays

Priti Patel vows ‘fundamental reform’ of asylum law tackling deportation delays on ‘human rights’ grounds and making it easier to kick out criminals as she bids to put bully row behind her Priti Patel vowed to introduce ‘fundamental reform’ to Brtain’s asylum system Pledged to make it easier to expel migrants without legitimate right to … Read more

Priti Patel vows ‘fundamental reform’ of asylum law tackling deportation delays

Priti Patel vows ‘fundamental reform’ of asylum law tackling deportation delays on ‘human rights’ grounds and making it easier to kick out criminals as she bids to put bully row behind her Priti Patel vowed to introduce ‘fundamental reform’ to Brtain’s asylum system Pledged to make it easier to expel migrants without legitimate right to … Read more

More than 2,000 adult asylum seekers pretending to be children

More than 2,000 adult asylum seekers have been caught lying about their age and pretending to be children, figures reveal Of 3,755 ‘children’ investigated by UK immigration half were found to be over 18   Adult asylum applications can be processed more harshly by the Home Office Genuine child victims of war, terror and disasters, are … Read more

Asylum seekers in the EU must be given access to new Covid-19 vaccines, UN says 

Asylum-seekers and other vulnerable migrants in the EU should have equal access to promising Covid-19 vaccines, the head of the UN’s migration agency told the European Parliament on Thursday. ‘It is for the sake of their safety and well-being of the entire host communities’ in the countries taking them in, said Antonio Vitorino, director general … Read more

Gaddafi ‘henchman’ has won the right to appeal deportation after seeking asylum over six years ago

Gaddafi ‘henchman’ has won the right to appeal deportation after seeking asylum over six years ago with his wife and three UK-born children Man, known only as AB, sought asylum in  2014 with his wife and three children ‘Serious reasons’ to suspect he committed war crimes, said the Government The Home Office argued that the … Read more