The UK government has made further changes Migration policy announced. In future, refugees will be “forced to return to their countries of origin as soon as those countries are deemed safe,” the Interior Ministry announced on Saturday. In addition, the duration of refugee status is shortened. The biggest asylum policy reform plan in decades is based on the Danish model, considered one of the strictest in Europe. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labor government is under pressure to reduce the number of migrants in the country due to poor opinion poll results.
Among other things, legal obligations to support certain asylum seekers, for example through housing and weekly payments, should be abolished. Ministry of Internal Affairs on Saturday with. The measure will apply to asylum seekers who can work but cannot, as well as those who break the law, said Home Minister Shabana Mahmood.
Shortening deadlines based on the Danish model
Like Denmark, the British government also wants to shorten the deadline: “I will abolish the British golden passport for asylum seekers,” said Home Minister Shabana Mahmood. In Denmark, migrants usually only receive temporary residence permits and must submit a new application if the permit expires. In the United Kingdom People with refugee status currently receive a “golden passport” for five years, after which they can apply for permanent residency and then citizenship.
The Minister of Home Affairs wants to shorten the duration of refugee status to 30 months. These protections are “reviewed periodically” and refugees must return to their country of origin as soon as they are deemed safe. Additionally, refugees must… asylum It’s true, they no longer have to wait five years, but 20 years before they can apply for long-term residence permits in the UK.
Plans to reduce the amount of immigration
Next week the government wants to set out in detail how the number of migrants coming to the UK will be reduced. The Labor Party, which has been in power for a year and a half, lags far behind Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist British Reform party in opinion polls.
Between July 2024 and June 2025, more than 111,000 people applied for asylum in the UK. This number increased 17 percent compared to the previous year. Excluding emigrants, the number of immigrants to England was more than 430,000 people. This value is called net immigration.
Following anti-immigrant protests, the British government announced changes to the asylum system in August. he said in early October starhis government plans to permanently limit family reunification for refugees. Migrants who have been granted refugee protection in the country should no longer be automatically granted entry to their relatives in the future, Starmer said and spoke of plans for further “fundamental changes” to asylum laws.
