A migrant staying at an asylum centre says there is “almost nightly fighting” between different nationalities living at the facility. The BBC says footage appears to show a brawl involving several men in the canteen of the Wethersfield asylum centre in Essex.
Germany has extended temporary protection to more than 260,000 asylum seekers so far this year as Berlin struggles to manage applications. The latest figures from European Union data service Eurostat show Germany granted temporary protection to 77,130 asylum seekers in the third
Aid charities in northern France say there are four times as many asylum seekers living in makeshift camps near Calais and Dunkirk compared with last year. That number is expected to increase as the freezing weather prevents migrants from crossing the Channel.
Almost 100,000 asylum seekers have been granted the right to work in the UK despite a decision on their claims not being reached due to a Home Office backlog. The number of people who have been waiting for an initial decision on
British holidaymakers could be sharing hotels with illegal immigrants as part of a new scheme to house asylum seekers in hotels abroad. Human rights organisations have asked hotels in numerous holiday hotspots to give up rooms for around £35 a night to
Rwanda is “less attractive” than the UK but is still “safe” to deport asylum seekers to, the Government told the Supreme Court yesterday. Lawyers acting for the Home Office opened the Government’s challenge to a Court of Appeal ruling in June that
Marley Morris, associate director for migration, trade and communities at IPPR, said: “There is only a very narrow window for government success on asylum, based on its current plan to forge ahead with the Rwanda deal and the Illegal Migration Act. “Even
According to the European Council, 962,160 non-EU citizens applied for asylum in the bloc in 2022. This is up 52 percent on 2021’s figure, but far below the 1,322,850 at the peak of the migrant crisis in 2015. A quarter of all
Asylum seekers spent four days on board the Bibby Stockholm barge after Legionella bacteria was found, Dorset Council has said. The discovery led to the removal on Friday (August 11) of the 39 people who had boarded the vessel docked in Portland
Asylum seekers poised to occupy rooms on the Bibby Stockholm barge as the vessel undergoes “final checks”. Transport minister Richard Holden said he cannot precisely say when the migrants will be moved onto the barge and added that the condition of the