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Asylum claims hit near 20-year high as backlog of cases soars

There were 55,146 asylum applications in the UK in the year to March.

The Independent UK

Channel crossings: Average arrivals per boat nearly doubles in 12 months

A Home Office report said there had been an average of 32 people per small boat in January to March 2022.

The Independent UK

Death registration law change hope after MP's tearful plea for families of Manchester Arena victims Liam and Chloe

Liam Curry and Chloe Rutherford's families want to register their deaths in person, but the law is stopping them

Manchester Evening News

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Plans to use a West Lothian hotel to house asylum seekers scrapped

Council bosses had been told 81 refugees would be housed at the Cairn Hotel but this has been shelved

Daily Record

‘Everybody’s getting their passport within four to six weeks’ says Boris Johnson

HM Passport Office is currently advising that travellers leave 10 weeks to receive a new passport - with many holidaymakers reporting longer waiting times

The Independent UK

Sir Keir Starmer taunts PM with quip about U-turn amid partygate furore

The Labour leader adapted a line used by Caroline Aherne in her Mrs Merton guise as he said Boris Johnson was running down the country.

The Independent UK

Where will Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stay during Queen’s Platinum Jubilee?

Sussexes will attend Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations with their two children in June

The Independent UK

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British policing is institutionally racist. Until we admit it we’ll never win back trust

Positive discrimination could encourage more black people to join the police so that our forces better represent their communities, says Neil Basu, assistant commissioner of the Met police

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re human beings too’: How a decade of the hostile environment has torn lives apart

It is 10 years since Theresa May first used the phrase that has become synonymous with hardline policies on migrants. In that decade – from “go home” vans to the Windrush scandal – thousands have faced fear and uncertainty as a result. They tell Nadine White their stories

The Independent UK

‘The fear still lives with me’: three years at mercy of the hostile environment

After an error on a visa application form, Sarah slipped into immigration limbo

The Guardian - UK

From ‘go home’ vans to Windrush scandal: a timeline of UK’s hostile environment

Theresa May first revealed Tory policy that has been derided across the world

The Guardian - UK

Home Office staff worry they may be asked to act illegally in ‘culture of fear’

After 10 years of hostile environment, critics say immigration crackdown has had devastating human cost

The Guardian - UK

Tory MP berates Home Office over plan to house asylum seekers in Yorkshire

Kevin Hollinrake insists opposition to scheme to accommodate 1,500 people at former RAF base is not about nimbyism or racism

The Guardian - UK

Martin Lewis issues passport warning as Brits face being banned from entering EU

Martin Lewis has explained how you now need to have a passport that is valid for at least three months on the date that you exit the EU. It must also have been issued in the past ten years at the time of entry

Daily Mirror

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Refugee 'humiliated' when he tried to use free rail travel and told it 'wasn't for him'

Raman, who "walked 35 days straight" to reach the UK, said a Transport for Wales worker inspected his Home Office documentation and told him he wasn't entitled to a free rail travel for refugees scheme

The Independent UK

New working group formed to stamp out ‘heinous’ spiking attacks on students

Michelle Donelan praises bravery of victims for coming forward to help others in campaign to stop spiking on campuses.

The Independent UK

Rwanda deportation plan is ‘unlawful’, campaigners claim

The Home Office is facing legal action over the policy.

The Independent UK

Second legal challenge launched over deal to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Home Office description of Rwanda as a ‘safe third country’ is irrational, legal letter says

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The Guardian - UK

Rwanda plan challenged over alleged failure to identify risks for LGBTQ+ refugees

Pre-action letter questions Home Office claims that east African country is ‘generally safe’

Daily Record

Brit couple face being forced to leave China without baby girl in passport fiasco

Callum and his wife Neelam, who are both teachers, are currently living in Shanghai where they welcomed their baby daughter Isabelle in February.

The Independent UK

Home Office warned protest banning orders backed by Priti Patel would not work

Proposals ‘essentially take away a person’s right to protest and would very likely to lead to a legal challenge’, government said in March 2021

Edinburgh Live

West Lothian plans to use hotel for asylum seekers scrapped by Home Office

The Home Office advised West Lothian Council that Bathgate's popular Cairn hotel would house asylum seekers, but the contactors running the service told the council before talking to the hotel owners.

The Independent UK

Channel migrant crossings top 9,000 this year as record levels continue despite Rwanda deal

At least 2,700 migrants have made the journey since Priti Patel announced the agreement with Rwanda last month

The Guardian - UK

Home Office detains all asylum seekers it plans to send to Rwanda

Department says previously announced option of serving arrivals to UK with notices while living in community has not been used

Daily Mirror

Ukraine schoolgirl denied entry to Scotland - but her pet guinea pig is allowed

Nataliia Zavhorodnia, 15, fled Kyiv with her guinea pigs Melon and Julienne who are allowed into Scotland while she faces having to return to the war zone

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