Posted on 08/21/2025 2:39:56 PM PDT by RandFan
A record 111,000 asylum applications were made to the UK during the year to June, but the government is processing cases faster, new Home Office figures show.
This is an increase of 14% from the previous year, and it is higher than the peak of 103,000 in 2002.
But officials are processing more cases than before the general election, meaning that over the long term there may be fewer people in the system needing housing support.
The latest data, which covers Labour's first year in office, comes as the government faces growing pressure over immigration.
The figures also showed 71,000 cases, relating to 91,000 people, were awaiting an initial decision. The number of cases is lower than the number of people since one case can also cover the main claimant's family.
That backlog is almost half the peak of 134,000 cases at the end of June 2023.
This means that there are 18,536 fewer people waiting for a decision today than there were in March.
The numbers of asylum seekers in hotels has risen slightly to 32,059 - a figure higher than when Labour came to power, but well below a peak of 56,000 in September 2023 under the Conservatives.
Labour has pledged to clear the backlog by 2029, pledging to cut Channel crossings and to open new government-run accommodation.
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“Record 111,000 UK Asylum applications in past year, figures show”
Hello Islam ... goodbye freedom
“asylum’ my eye.
When the majority of people entering your country are young men, you have an invasion not an asylum.
Islam is a war plan
111,000 muslims the will not work go on welfare and breed nothing else
... and those are the people who bother to apply. There are others, who prefer the anonymous life of a street-soldier.
“But officials are processing more cases than before the general election”
There you go, just like the rats here. Replacement voters. It is an open question if enough of the English voters have woken up to put Reform in power. So the left goal is to get as many of the ignorant hordes voting as possible.
Good point.
The BBC doesn’t get it. People are not concerned about backlogs, they are concerned about the overall numbers being allowed into the UK.
They ‘get’ it. They are fellow travelers.
We have tens of millions here in this country. Most assume they're illegal but in fact, they were admitted legally under frivolous, totally farcical claims of political persecution. All they had to do was say "I'm afraid in my home country" and they were given the red carpet (to include travel documents and welfare).
Our asylum laws were written to entice Soviet scientists and doctors to defect a handful at a time and have instead been turned into a tool to admit tens of millions of Third World denizens fleeing the economic and social conditions that they themselves created in their rat hole countries.
In the mean time...
Border officials encountered 11 million unauthorized migrants attempting to enter the US between October 2019 and June 2024.
https://usafacts.org/articles/what-can-the-data-tell-us-about-unauthorized-immigration/
Disgusting what white Christian countries are doing to themselves and their citizens. Europe will NEVER recover from this invited conquest. .
“Europe will NEVER recover from this invited conquest.”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The invasion of America by tens of millions of illegals is already accomplished, together with the massive import of Fentanyl makes the situation very complicated as well. In Europe there is no fentanyl problem though.
Let’s just hope Trump can save America from the brink by trying to put an end to all this. It’s a very difficult task.
The coming Civil War in the UK...
https://x.com/amuse/status/1959189536959037843
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