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Asylum Aid’s response to the Public Accounts Committee report on the UK asylum system

The Public Accounts Committee’s report lays bare what organisations like Asylum Aid have long known through our daily work with people seeking protection: the UK’s asylum system is not only inefficient and costly, it is fundamentally failing the very people it is meant to protect. The findings confirm a system characterised by poor decision-making, chronic delays, and a lack of coherent strategy for reform.
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Annual Report 2024

2024 was a year of exciting change and consolidation for Asylum Aid. As the final year of working towards the 2022-2024 strategic objectives, we successfully delivered on our commitment to increase our own capacity to provide our much-needed expert legal representation to survivors, taking on 93 new clients across the year. We worked in partnership to increase capacity across legal deserts, partnering with legal advice providers from Devon to Manchester through our innovative model of training and remote supervision. We grew our statelessness project and our casework, enabling us to reach many more survivors.
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Asylum Aid's response to the far-right violence and closure of asylum hotels

Over the last weeks, we have been deeply alarmed about the far-right attacks outside asylum hotels and threats of more organised violence across the country. We strongly condemn the racist and vitriolic targeting of people seeking protection in the UK. We stand in solidarity with the men, women, children and families at the sharp end of this hostility, who deserve to live in dignity and with safety.
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Helen Bamber Foundation Group’s response to the Immigration White Paper and hostile rhetoric from the UK government 

On 12th May, the government published its Immigration White Paper which contained a range of regressive measures, including those that would make it even harder for people living and working here to secure permanent settlement. In addition to recent changes to eligibility for citizenship, the government’s approach will further harm those trying to build a life in the UK. This includes the survivors we support who have experienced the worst humanity has to offer and now simply want safety and security.
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Asylum Aid’s statement on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

This new Bill builds on some of the much-needed reforms to the asylum system that the government has made since taking office, including tackling the backlog of asylum cases. It repeals the Safety of Rwanda Act, as the Government committed to do in response to Asylum Aid’s legal challenge.  It also revokes a significant amount of the Illegal Migration Act that aimed to strip those fleeing war, persecution and human rights abuses of their right to seek safety this country. However, Parliament should go further and repeal the whole IMA.

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