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UK immigration staff blast asylum seeker fingerprint plans

14:14 17/02/2021
UK immigration border staff have blasted Home Office plans to reintroduce fingerprinting by force on asylum seekers arriving on British shores from the Channel. A similar measure was scrapped in 2012...

Priti Patel UK immigration plan to deport failed asylum seekers

0:17 23/09/2020
Comments by Sanwar Ali : Perhaps asylum seekers should be allowed to work on farms to help with skills shortages after the end of the Brexit transitional period. It may prove to be difficult finding...

Dutch will deny failed asylum seekers food and shelter

11:41 10/09/2015
Dutch immigration officials will cease to provide asylum seekers with food and shelter after just three weeks if their application is unsuccessful. This is in contrast for example to Sweden and...

UK immigration watchdog says only 13% of failed asylum seekers deported

11:12 13/12/2012
While appearing before the Home Affairs Select Committee on 4th December 2012, John Vine, the UK's chief selector of immigration confirmed that only 104 of 764 asylum seekers who were refused leave...