Britain’s asylum claims have risen to their highest level in nearly 20 years amid a record number of migrants crossing the Channel, new official figures revealed today.
A total of 37,562 applications were made from September to September, mainly from the claimants. Iran, Eritrea, Albania, Iraq And Syria,
This was higher than any 12-month period since 2004 (39,746) and higher than the numbers seen in 2015 and 2016 (36,546) at the height of the European migration crisis.
Figures published by the Home Office this morning after a canoe capsized FranceAt least 27 migrants, including a pregnant woman and a young girl, died.
In the deadliest migrant tragedy in Anglo-French history, a ‘snappy’ gray inflatable boat was photographed by a lifeboat captain arriving from Calais yesterday afternoon to find floating bodies in the water.
So far this year, more than 25,000 people have made the crossing.
This table shows the number of people granted asylum, resettlement, and family reunification visas in the UK from the year to September
The new arrivals bring the total number of UK arrivals this month to 6,050, up from the previous record of 3,879 in September. This year’s total is now a record-breaking 25,772. Is
The latest figure for asylum claims is up 18% as of September 2020 (31,966), although it will be affected by the coronavirus pandemic amid restrictions on movement. In 2019, 35,737 applications were received for the same period.
A total of 67,547 asylum applications were awaiting a decision at the end of September – 41% year-on-year and the current record highest since the start in June 2010.
Separate Home Office figures show the total number of cases in the asylum system – including cases awaiting results of appeals and unsuccessful asylum seekers due to be deported from the UK – 14% year-on-year at the end of June 2021 -Years were 125,316. – year and more than three times the number a decade ago (37,903 in June 2011).
Two-thirds of asylum seekers were granted asylum or other form of protection after their first application, up from more than half in the previous year.
Meanwhile, the number of appeals filed till September was 30% less than the previous year and has been falling since 2015. About half of the appeals were successful.
Last night, a migrant boat sank off the coast of France, the darkest day ever in the cross-Channel migration crisis.
Top 10 Nationalities Claiming Asylum in the UK and Percentage Success Rate on Initial Application
Comparison of the number of asylum applicants in the UK compared to the three EU countries receiving the most applications
Two survivors – an Iraqi and a Somalian – have told police that the poorly built dinghy was hit by a container ship, puncturing its thin rubber hull. Five people have been arrested in France in connection with the deaths of 27 people, including one held overnight for driving a German-registered vehicle loaded with flying ribs.
But as the capture of Emmanuel Macron was urged, French police this morning failed to stop a group of more than a dozen asylum seekers from crossing the Channel in choppy conditions. They were brought to Dover trembling at dawn by the RNLI.
Small groups of officers were seen patrolling beaches near Calais this morning but failed to stop dozens from leaving for Britain amid claims by Britain that the French were sitting on their hands as 17 men yesterday Seven women and three children were killed. ,
Year to September breakdown of asylum applicants broken by sex
Boris Johnson, Mr Macron and their ministers are expected to hold further talks today as the prime minister insists British shoes are needed on the ground in France to prevent rogue slave gangs ‘getting away from murder’.
As relations between the UK and France rapidly deteriorated, Macron’s minister in charge of the crisis, Gerald Dormann, today blamed Britain for the crisis and claimed migrants were promised ‘Eldorado in England’ by people smugglers. Because of its benefits and ‘attractive’. ‘ labour market.
Mr Macron is said to have ignored the new offer for help with patrols during his call with the prime minister last night to the French president, who insists he does not “turn the channel into a cemetery”. Will, again accused by critics. Allowing bitterness over Brexit for their failure to deal with migrant smugglers.
French Home Minister Mr Darmanin is expected to speak to his counterpart Home Secretary Priti Patel this morning. He said that migrants today were ‘often attracted’ to the UK labor market and said the death of 27 people after a migrant boat sank was an ‘absolute tragedy’.
He added: ‘That’s the allure of Britain, to which it includes its labor market. Everyone knows there are about 1.2 million secret immigrants in Britain and that British business leaders use that workforce to produce the things the British use.
He told French radio network RTL that smugglers are ‘criminals, people who exploit the sufferings of others, of women and children – there were pregnant women, children on that boat who died yesterday … and for a few thousand euros they Promise them ‘Eldorado in England’.
This is the first picture of a substandard and dangerous canoe that sank in the Calais River yesterday, killing 27 people, including five women, some of whom were pregnant and three children.
A group of people believed to be migrants have been brought by the RNLI to Dover, Kent, following a small boat incident in the Channel that killed 27 people yesterday.
Calais MP Pierre-Henri Dumont has said Macron should reject Britain’s offer, saying: ‘It will not work. Thousands of people would be needed for this. And there is also the question of sovereignty. I’m not sure the British would accept the other side if the French army were patrolling the British coast.
French authorities are demanding even more money from the UK taxpayer to stop the flow of thousands of migrants across the Channel every month as a blame game between Paris and London over the 27 deaths.
As soon as 6,000 arrived in Britain in November alone, the owners of the ports of Calais and Boulogne insisted that Britain should start paying over £54 million to France each year to prevent people hiding in dinghies or lorries. To prevent people from going there.
Jean-Marc Puisseau said: ‘We are obliged to control each lorry to ensure that there are no migrants inside. We don’t do it for a penny. It is free for your country, it costs Port of Calais, 8 million (euro) per year to control it and I want to discuss this again with your government. It was signed at a time when Britain was in Europe and has no place’.
Calais mayor Natacha Bouchert blamed the lucrative gains in Britain for the crisis. She said: ‘I say that’s enough. The British government has imposed immigration controls on our territory for the past 20 years. Have never had the courage to control this immigration back home. You have to react, react quickly so that everything stops.
Police patrol a beach near Calais as French officers fail to stop migrants heading to the UK again
A team of French police looked around the dunes of a beach this morning as they were accused of failing to deal with the issue
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