Parents of Manchester Arena bombing victims distraught after 'patronising' Home Office meeting 'We definitely are not in any grieving process' Manchester Evening News · Feb 26, 2023
Surge in number of Britons fighting to hold on to their citizenship After the Shamima Begum decision, figures show dramatic increase in challenges to Home Office The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2023
Terrified Ukrainian boy, 11, begs Rishi Sunak to let him join his dad in the UK The family applied for Boris Johnson's Homes for Ukraine scheme last September and is one of 9,400 cases caught up in Home Office delays and red tape Daily Mirror · Feb 25, 2023
Revealed: one in 100 police officers in England and Wales faced a criminal charge last year Figure has surged over the past 10 years with pressure growing for officers to be sacked on the spot The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2023
Vulnerable asylum seekers 'prisoners in their own homes' after fleeing war zones As many asylum seekers say they have been placed in unsuitable properties littered with tripping hazards, an expert blamed the system which she says 'creates a hostile environment' Daily Mirror · Feb 25, 2023
Asylum seeker protestors outnumbered outside Long Eaton hotel A protest and counter-protest took place outside the Novotel in Long Eaton around its housing of asylum seekers. Nottingham Post · Feb 25, 2023
She put Taliban members behind bars for their crimes. Now she’s in fear for her life – and the UK won’t help Exclusive: Afghan judge, Yousa, has had death threats, been shot at and is a Taliban target after putting many behind bars. She is now ‘stateless’ in Pakistan and the UK government won’t help, as Maya Oppenheim reports The Independent UK · Feb 25, 2023
The Greater Manchester town where only four people sleep rough Mo and Will have come through dark times Manchester Evening News · Feb 25, 2023
How to speed up passport application as wait times are as long as 10 weeks You might be able to upgrade your application and get your passport faster Liverpool Echo · Feb 24, 2023
The Guardian view on the asylum backlog: sticking plasters are no solution Editorial: A Home Office questionnaire is unlikely to provide an answer to the problems that are causing delays The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2023
Asylum seekers in Bedfordshire ‘afraid to leave hotel’ because of being filmed Dunstable residents said to be taking videos of those staying at hotel that has been focus of protests and far-right leafleting The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2023
The UK’s asylum questionnaires plan has inflamed left and right alike. All the while, lives remain in limbo Some say the form is a crackdown. Others see it as an amnesty. But either way, 80,000 will be kept waiting, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2023
Why Chelsea's Andrey Santos presents clearest transfer problem yet in post-Brexit reality The Brazilian prospect is still searching for a loan move because he cannot get a work permit as Premier League clubs continue to come to terms with the GBE system that has seen worldwide playing pool shrink by more than 90% Daily Mirror · Feb 24, 2023
The hundreds of desperate Ukrainian children saved by Labour peer who fled Nazis Refugee campaigner Lord Alf Dubs – himself evacuated as a child from Nazi Germany via the Kindertransport - began raising Valya Pylypenko’s case to then Home Secretary Priti Patel, in the House of Lords, to news outlets and to civil servants Daily Mirror · Feb 23, 2023
Manchester Evening News · Feb 23, 2023 The Mancunian Way: Where are they going? Child refugees are being put to work on some of Manchester’s most dangerous streets PLUS Keir Starmer backs Awaab’s Law
Reuters · Feb 23, 2023 Britain scraps interviews for 12,000 asylum seekers to speed up process Britain will scrap the requirement for around 12,000 asylum seekers to undergo face-to-face interviews and instead ask them to fill out a questionnaire, the government said on Thursday, in an attempt to clear record levels of backlogs.
The National (Scotland) · Feb 23, 2023 Rise of the far right: 'UK has parallels with Donald Trump's America' POLITICIANS have a “moral obligation to moderate their rhetoric” and should be more aware of the influence this could potentially have on…
The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2023 Warwick student with cancer wins payout after university denied extension request University accepts it did not make adjustments for her illness as a form of disability
Nottingham Post · Feb 23, 2023 Council hits back at Home Office decision to house asylum seekers in village It comes after The Best Western Yew Lodge Hotel, in Kegworth, confirmed it will be closing to the public
The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2023 Only 22 Afghans resettled in UK under ‘pathway’ to help vulnerable refugees Charity says disparity with 8,633 Afghans who arrived in small boats last year shows lack of functioning route
Al Jazeera · Feb 23, 2023 How and why did Shamima Begum lose her UK citizenship? Begum, whose nationality was stripped after she travelled to Syria to join ISIL (ISIS), continues to fuel debate.
Daily Mirror · Feb 23, 2023 Anger over Tory 'incompetence' as asylum backlog hits record 160,000 The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures reveal that 160,919 people were waiting for an initial decision on their asylum claim at the end of December - up 60% from a year earlier
Wales Online · Feb 23, 2023 Just 22 people resettled in UK from Afghanistan via government scheme while 8,633 crossed Channel in boats The Refugee Council said the Government needed to 'urgently rethink its approach'
The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2023 Press greets Home Office redraft of national security bill with scepticism Industry sources say changes appear not to go far enough amid fears of ‘chilling effect’ on journalism
The Independent UK · Feb 23, 2023 Government urged to ‘rethink’ after just 22 fleeing Afghans resettled via UNHCR Part of a resettlement scheme was for vulnerable people referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees having fled Afghanistan.