Recently in asylum Category

By Ruth Smith

Today, if you're a destitute asylum seeker in the UK and ask the government for help, you will receive just £35.13 a week, down from £42.16. 

by Amy Taylor

Failed asylum seekers unable to leave due to their being no safe route available are stuck here through no fault of their own.

Given this point how can it be right that they are not entitled to free NHS care?

A two day hearing, which began yesterday in the High Court, is challenging this.

by Simeon Brody

The report by the Independent Asylum Commission has received lots of coverage in today's papers.

By Amy Taylor

The government's document on reforms to the care of unaccompanied ayslum seeking children, published last month, takes a different tone to its original consultation document published last February.

The need to safeguard the group while at the same time putting forward proposals that could make them destitute is still there but the new document makes it much clearer that these children are separate to other children looked after by the local authorities and to other children in general.

by Mike McNabb

In the worst government tradition, it was a good day to bury bad news. Yesterday started with the continued furore over the expense account of the Conservative MP Derek Conway; then it continued when the Inland Revenue's online self-assessment site crashed.

by Amy Taylor

The NHS was set up to provide healthcare based on need not the ability to pay - unless you are a failed asylum seeker that is.

Earlier this week 275 GPs spoke out against the government's plans to deny failed asylum seekers free access to their services. The move comes on the back of charges for hospital care for the group, brought in in April 2004.

by Mike McNabb

Whether the Watford footballer Al Bangura will turn into a star is impossible to predict.

What is certain is that the 19-year-old midfielder from Sierra Leone has been given permission to remain and work in the UK after a protracted battle with the Home Office against deportation.