The UK Labor government will confirm, on Monday 17 November, a drastic tightening of asylum conditions in the UK. Refugee status granted by the authorities is no longer permanent. This policy will be reviewed every two and a half years for those who benefit from the program, and these people will most likely be returned to their country of origin if conditions are safe again (for example if the conflict ends or a regime changes). People who get asylum, but arrived in the country in a condition described as“wild” by authorities (in rubber boats) also have to wait twenty years before claiming permanent residency rights, compared to the current five years.
This is a real paradigm shift for Shabana Mahmood, home minister under Keir Starmer, who has made clear she wants to end the crisis. “golden ticket” (“golden ticket”) that the UK will offer to migrants seeking asylum. This was a satire on conditions which he thought were too generous for smugglers “sell” to the candidate who will leave for the north of France, as he said on Sunday on the BBC. The politician, known for his position on the right wing of the Labor Party, explained that he was directly inspired by the Danish model, which was introduced in 2021 by the Social Democratic Party and is considered one of the strictest models in Europe. Asylum requests have also dropped drastically.
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