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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lizzie Dearden

Thousands of Syrians in limbo as UK Home Office freezes asylum claims

People gather in Aleppo in December to celebrate the ousting of Bashar al-Assad.
People gather in Aleppo in December to celebrate the ousting of Bashar al-Assad. Photograph: Ozan Köse/AFP/Getty Images

More than 6,000 Syrians in Britain are stuck in limbo because of an ongoing freeze on their asylum claims, two months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

The Home Office announced a “pause” on Syrian asylum seekers’ claims on 9 December, the day after rebels swept into Damascus, saying that it needed to “assess the current situation”.

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