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By Farnaz Fassihi and Hamed Aleaziz Four months after the Trump administration deported Artemis Ghasemzadeh, a 27-year-old Iranian Christian convert, to Panama before she could seek asylum for ...
The European Commission proposed a revision of the “third safe country” concept, paving the way for agreements similar to the UK-Rwanda asylum partnership. EU countries will be able to dismiss ...
Two other Balkan countries seen as potential destinations for UK migrant returns say they have not been asked by the UK. Sir Keir Starmer revealed on Thursday at a news conference with the ...
They come for asylum, insisting they face persecution for their religion, or sexuality or for supporting the wrong politicians. For generations, they had been given the chance to make their case ...
Two companies that receive taxpayers' money to house asylum seekers in hotels have said they will hand back some of their profits to the Home Office. Under contracts signed by the previous ...
The UK is looking to send asylum seekers who have had their application rejected to “return hubs” abroad while they await deportation, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Thursday.
The United Kingdom is talking to third countries about setting up “return hubs” to host asylum seekers refused the right to stay in the country as part of a renewed crackdown on immigration ...
Most who spoke to The Irish Times in Coolock, north Dublin, on Friday welcomed the news that asylum seekers will not be housed in the former Crown Paints factory site, describing the U-turn as a ...
An asylum seeker whose case rested on facing persecution in his home country for being gay will not be allowed to return to the UK after it emerged he is now married to a woman. Esmir Demaj was ...
Now, 15 years on, he continues to live in limbo awaiting asylum - unable to work, get a home or settle into life in the UK. He attempted to build a life for himself in Plymouth before he was told ...
An Iraqi asylum seeker has won the right to stay in the UK after claiming the shame of an extra-marital affair has prevented him from getting a new ID card so he can return. The unnamed 32-year ...
The number of asylum seekers supported by councils across the West Midlands has more than doubled in ten years but still represents a tiny fraction of the population, new data reveals. Across ...