British Ministry of Interior data showed that tens of thousands of immigrants are waiting for more than a year for a decision on their asylum application, and that there are hundreds of waiting for more than five years.
The British “BA Media” agency reported that the data obtained by the Refugee Council under the Freedom of Information Laws indicated that the number of people waiting for a preliminary decision regarding the request to resort to the United Kingdom has doubled almost four times during the past five years from 29 thousand and 522 in December 2017 to 122 thousand and 206 in June 2022.
The data showed that the number in December 2020 was 64,891, which means that the number doubled in almost 18 months.
British Interior Secretary, Soyla Braverman, is exposed to increasing pressure to reform the UK asylum system, which she and his predecessor Patel described as “broken. ”
It is noteworthy that the British government spends 6. 8 million pounds (8.
8 million dollars) per day to accommodate immigrants in hotels, and the Ministry of Interior figures published last August showed that the cost of the asylum system in the United Kingdom exceeded 2 billion pounds annually for the first time, with the greatest A number of asylum applications within two decades..
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