Government plans to overhaul asylum appeals system
The UK plans a new independent panel with trained adjudicators to reduce a 51,000-case backlog and cut appeal times averaging over a year, aiming to end costly asylum hotel stays.
- Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will introduce a new fast‑track asylum appeals process to reduce delays, as appeals currently take over a year on average.
- Earlier this month, official figures showed 111,084 asylum applicants , with about 51,000 appeal cases waiting and over 32,000 asylum seekers in hotels across more than 200 sites.
- Under the reforms, a 24‑week deadline will be imposed for first‑tier tribunal decisions involving taxpayers-funded accommodation and foreign offenders, with independent adjudicators prioritising these cases.
- On Tuesday, the High Court granted a temporary injunction requiring Bell Hotel residents to vacate by 4:00 PM on September 12th, and the government intends to appeal the ruling; Hillingdon council, housing 2,238 asylum seekers, is also considering legal action.
- In the coming months ministers will publish further details; the overhaul requires primary legislation and may amend the border security bill, amid 5.4 billion spent on accommodation.
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Britain's government is bowing to the pressure of anti-immigration protests. It now wants to decide more quickly on rejected asylum seekers who are going to appeal.
UK promises to improve 'broken' asylum system amid wave of anti-migrant protests
As anti-migrant protests continued outside hotels housing asylum seekers on Sunday, the UK government announced plans to reform the asylum appeals process – aiming to speed up decisions, cut the backlog and end the use of hotels for accommodation. The average appeal currently takes 53 weeks.
The British government promised on Sunday to speed up the processing of asylum-seekers' appeal procedures, in the middle of a weekend of anti-immigration protests in front of hotels used to house them in several cities in the United Kingdom. ...
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