16 March 2021
80% of last minute claims submitted by immigration offenders are eventually denied, new research published by the Home Office today has revealed.
The high proportion of migrants with no right to remain in the UK making late claims – including human rights, judicial reviews or modern slavery related submissions – has raised concerns that this is becoming a tactic to delay and eventually “time out” removal from the UK.
Commenting on the analysis, Minister for Immigration Compliance and Justice, Chris Philp, said:
We know that our asylum system is open to abuse by those who have no right to remain the UK and these stark figures just demonstrate the difficulties we face when seeking to remove people.