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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nicola Kelly

Revealed: Most Albanian asylum seekers granted UK visas are trafficked women

Gareth Fuller/PA

The majority of Albanian asylum seekers granted leave to remain in the UK in the past year were trafficked women, according to data obtained by The Independent.

Analysis from the Oxford Migration Observatory reveals that 86 per cent of Albanians who received positive decisions on asylum applications in the year ending June 2022 were women, whose leave to remain was granted on the basis that they were likely to have been trafficked and in genuine need of protection.

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