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Ending face-to-face interviews could be ‘devastating’ for UK asylum seekers

Charities fear plan to instead introduce questionnaire in English could result in claims being wrongly turned down

The Guardian - UK

What do the latest asylum and resettlement figures show?

Albania was the most common nationality applying for asylum in the UK in 2022.

The Independent UK

Minister Robert Jenrick faces driving ban after being caught speeding...again

Home Office minister Robert Jenrick has “sincerely apologised” to a court after racking up his second speeding conviction in the space of a year.

Evening Standard

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UK asylum backlog hits new record of 160,000

The figure is 60% up from 100,564 for the same period in 2021.

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman’s claims modern slavery victims ‘gaming’ system questioned by Home Office’s own stats

Official figures question prime minister and home secretary’s claims migrants are ‘gaming the system’

The Independent UK

12,000 asylum seekers to have cases fast-tracked in bid to clear backlog

Ministers hope fast-tracking cases from high-acceptance countries will help clear backlog

Evening Standard

Labour’s Preet Gill accused of undermining Sikh victims of sexual violence

Shadow development secretary urged those calling Sikh temples unsafe to submit written apologies

The Guardian - UK

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Thousands of asylum cases to be fast-tracked in bid to cut soaring backlog

Government officials stressed that thorough security checks would still be carried out.

The Independent UK

Thousands of asylum cases to be fast-tracked as Home Office struggles with Sunak’s backlog pledge

Government could use failure to return questionnaires in 20 working days to delete asylum applications

The Independent UK

Stranded in a strange place, plucked from safety, child refugees are falling prey to Manchester's Counterfeit Street gangs

'Many of the children have travelled for considerable distances and by all accounts independently of responsible adults', GMP said as the latest raids were carried out

Manchester Evening News

Home Office to tell refugees to complete questionnaire in English or risk refusal

Exclusive: Claimants will have only 20 days to respond or face rejection

The Guardian - UK

Home Office treatment of children 'a gift to traffickers' as experts slam 'casual racism'

Former independent commissioners Dame Sara Thornton and Dame Vera Baird accuse the government of victim blaming amid reports of hundreds of children disappearing from hotels housing asylum seekers

Daily Mirror

UK’s modern slavery programme at ‘breaking point’ as demand from victims soars

Suspected modern slavery victims are waiting almost a year and a half on average to get a Home Office decision

The Independent UK

Coroner to decide if inquest to be held into death of woman, 43, murdered by her estranged husband

Tamara Padi, 43, was stabbed to death by Aubrey Pule Padi at her home on Lake Road in Stalybridge on July 7, 2021

Manchester Evening News

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Nottingham Post

The Nottinghamian: Striking a balance between students and residents

Take a look at the Nottinghamian newsletter from Wednesday, February 22.

The Independent UK

Windrush victim brings compensation fight with Home Office to the High Court

In July 2005, he visited his youngest son in Jamaica but was refused re-entry to the UK three years later.

The Independent UK

Key questions after the ruling in the Shamima Begum case

Ms Begum’s challenge to the decision to strip her of her British citizenship was dismissed on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Sunak: Home Secretary to provide update on asylum accommodation plans

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Nottingham Post

Home Office takes over hotel to house asylum seekers near Nottinghamshire border

Other businesses based in the hotel, such as Marco Pierre White's New York Italian restaurant and the Houdini Escape Rooms, will also be closed so that the Home Office can have exclusive use of the building.

The Independent UK

Shamima Begum loses bid to regain British citizenship

Amnesty International has criticised the ruling which followed a five-day hearing in November.

Liverpool Echo

Shamima Begum can never return to UK after losing court battle for citizenship

The decision was made eight years after she left the UK as a 15-year-old schoolgirl

Daily Record

Ex-ISIS bride Shamima Begum loses legal bid to return to the UK

She was 15 when she travelled from Bethnal Green, east London, through Turkey and into territory controlled by the so-called Islamic State.

Irish Mirror

Shamima Begum will not be allowed to return to the UK as she 'poses a risk to national security'

ISIS bride Shamima Begum had her British citizenship revoked shortly after she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019

Reuters

Shamima Begum, British-born woman who joined IS, loses appeal over citizenship removal

A British-born woman, who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State, lost her latest appeal against the removal of her British citizenship, but her lawyers vowed to keep fighting and said the case was "nowhere near over".

Nottingham Post

Shamima Begum loses legal challenge and will be deprived of British citizenship

Shamima Begum cannot come back to the UK after the major court decision

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