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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.
Migrant Help is a United Kingdom-based national charity that has been supporting migrants since 1963. [3]The charity operates from 10 offices across the United Kingdom, providing advice, guidance and support to people seeking asylum, refugees and victims of modern-day slavery and human trafficking.
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.
The UK Home Office defines unaccompanied asylum-seeking child as "a person under 18, or who, in the absence of documentary evidence establishing age, appears to be under that age, is applying for asylum in his or her own right and has no relative or guardian in the United Kingdom." [3] All asylum-seekers in the UK are seeking refugee status ...
Google’s search results and its AI overview have been giving misleading answers to questions about the number of crimes committed by asylum seekers in the UK—quoting figures that were actually ...
Home Office figures show a total of 118,882 people were waiting for an initial decision on an asylum application in the UK at the end of June 2024. UK’s asylum backlog creeping up after 32% dip ...
Refugees at Home is an independent charity which finds temporary accommodation for refugees and asylum seekers with host families in the UK. By the end of 2022 Refugees at Home had arranged hosts for over 4000 refugees and asylum seekers fleeing war and persecution from more than 70 countries. [1]
The barge, which has capacity to house some 500 people, is part of the British government’s plans to tackle huge costs in housing thousands of asylum-seekers and to deter migrants from crossing ...