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The National Asylum Support Service (NASS) is a section of the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) division of the Home Office. It is responsible for supporting and accommodating people seeking asylum while their cases are being dealt with. [1] NASS was created in April 2000 under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The British government has been given powers to detain asylum seekers and migrants at any stage of the asylum process. [21] The use of asylum has increased with the introduction of the process of "fast track", or the procedure by which the Immigration Service assess asylum claims which are capable of being decided quickly.
A Home Office Immigration Enforcement vehicle in north London. The Home Office (HO), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as the Home Department, [2] is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for immigration, security, and law and order.
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The Government is spending £6.8 million a day housing migrants in hotels and Home Office figures published in August showed the cost of the UK’s asylum system topped £2 billion a year for the ...
A demonstration outside the Suites Hotel in Merseyside descended into chaos on Friday, with protesters hurling missiles and damaging a police van.
In September 2005 Manuel Bravo, an asylum seeker from Angola, hanged himself while in detention awaiting deportation with his 13-year-old son following a dawn raid at his home in Leeds. [30] In March 2014, 40-year-old Christine Case from Jamaica died at the centre from a massive pulmonary thrombo-embolism. The family were only told of her death ...
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