Home Office grants 19,000 asylum seekers permission to remain
More than 19,000 asylum seekers, some of whose cases date back more than 10 years, have finally been told they can stay in the country, the Home Office said last night.
They are among the first tranche of 52,000 cases that have been looked at as part of a Home Office “legacy” drive to clear a backlog of between 400,000 and 450,000 files.
The disclosure was made as the Home Office embarrassingly announced that urgent immigration background checks on all its private security guards had been ordered after an illegal migrant was identified last Friday working at the department’s Marsham Street headquarters in London. (more…)
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