All news on the topic: Asylum

Several athletes have disappeared after competing in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, failing to return home with the rest of their teams.

Nigel Farage’s desperate small boats plan has been dismissed as impractical and illegal as he attempts to divert attention from sleaze allegations.

A new US policy allows hundreds of thousands of pending asylum cases to be sent directly to immigration judges as the administration seeks to reduce a 1.4 million backlog.

The Home Office is blocking the evacuation of dozens of women and children from Gaza, despite the Foreign Office saying it is ready to get people out of the war-torn region.

Twice-deported Albanian criminal Dorian Puka is flaunting his wealth on social media, having snuck back into the UK once more.

A Chinese human rights lawyer has been arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), raising concerns he could be deported to China where he would face persecution.

Shabana Mahmood’s one-in, one-out deal has been thrown into chaos after migrants successfully argued deporting them was unlawful.

France has denied asylum to Central African Republic journalist Ephrem Yalike, whose testimony helped expose the workings of the Russian propaganda and disinformation network in Africa.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Hamburg (Germany) has carried out searches and asset seizure measures in an investigation into suspected organised subsidy fraud involving funding from the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) 2021–2027.

In a huge overhaul, Shabana Mahmood will put forward plans to use members of the public to decide asylum appeals.

The Home Secretary has pledged to save the asylum system “for generations to come” as she announced the opening of new safe routes for refugees from the autumn.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp has vowed to abolish immigration tribunals as part of plans to be announced by the Conservatives.

The message circulating on WhatsApp listed 26 locations in and around Belfast with an unambiguous instruction: “Forward to all men of the age 18 and over.

All residents at The Bell Hotel in Essex, a site that has been used to house asylum seekers and was the location for protests last year, have been removed, Epping Forest District Council (EFDC) has confirmed.

The backlog of asylum appeal cases has reached a new record high, according to Ministry of Justice figures.

Twelve police officers have been injured and 16 people have been arrested in Northern Ireland following a second night of disorder in the wake of the Belfast knife attack.

A failed asylum seeker has been handed a two-and-a-half year prison sentence after planting a fake stick of dynamite outside MI5 headquarters on New Year’s Day.

Poland’s former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro, wanted on several criminal charges in his home country, has fled Hungary to the United States, he confirmed on Sunday, after being granted asylum from former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s government last year.

Hundreds of Afghan women have been refused asylum in the UK in the past year amid plummeting grant rates, new analysis shows.

Two men have been rushed to hospital with head injuries after attending an event at Newsham Park tonight.

Reform UK has stated it would prosecute civil servants who knowingly granted asylum to sex offenders.

In a move that has sparked outrage among aspiring students, several British universities have halted or restricted admissions from Pakistan and Bangladesh, citing rising visa misuse and mounting pressure from the UK Home Office to curb fraudulent applications.

Syrians no longer have a reason to be granted asylum in Germany following the conclusion of their country’s civil war, according to Friedrich Merz.

A criminal gang member who falsely claimed he was the father of eight Albanian children to get them UK citizenship has been jailed.