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Number of fresh asylum claims plunge (fact (decision (Home Office (= a…
Number of fresh asylum claims plunge
fact
Destitute asylum seekers across Britain
must make journeys
to submit further evidence to their claims
costing more than £100
500 miles each way (Liverpool)
decision
Home Office
= a ‘deliberate’ attempt to make the process more difficult
2015
more than once
new analysis of government figures
the number of people making fresh claims has more than halved
162 --> 2014
70 --> 2017
process
Asylum seekers can submit new evidence if their application is refused and their appeal rights have been exhausted
Home Office decides whether it will be considered as a fresh claim
during the process
not eligible for government support
not allowed to wor
become destitute
Rol of charities
spent thousands of pounds to help asylum seekers get to Liverpool
BUT
people who are not in contact with charities may have been prevented from making the journeys at all
eligible for protection at risk of deportation
being driven underground
into exploitation
example : The Scottish Refugee Council
135 asylum seekers
/£72 each for travel and food
expert : Wafa Shaheen
Requiring people to make this journey forces them to rely on charity and goodwill to find the money for a bus ticket
“Why would you make people go to Liverpool? There’s a Home Office building in Folkestone, Kent, Croydon"
unjust policy designed to reduce the number of further submissions
to keep the statistics down
expert : Chapman
appointment with the Home Office’s fresh submissions unit was also difficult
part of the hostile environment
example
the very vulnerable woman
child
spoke limited English
had a history of torture
couldn’t possibly manage to navigate her journey to Liverpool alone
:red_cross: charity --> she wouldn’t have been able to afford that, which means she would have been pushed further into destitution