Posted on 11/15/2025 10:21:22 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
People granted asylum in the UK will have to wait 20 years before they can apply to settle permanently, under plans due to be announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Monday.
The major shake-up to asylum policy comes as the government seeks to reduce small boat crossings and asylum claims.
Under the plans, people who are granted asylum will only be allowed to stay in the UK temporarily, with their refugee status regularly reviewed and those whose home countries are then deemed safe told to return.
Currently refugee status lasts for five years, after which people can apply for indefinite leave to remain.
Now the home secretary wants to cut the initial period from five years to two-and-a-half years, after which refugee status will be regularly reviewed.
But she plans to significantly lengthen the time it will take to gain permanent residence in the UK from five years to 20.
Mahmood told the Sunday Times the reforms were "designed to essentially say to people: do not come to this country as an illegal migrant, do not get on a boat".
She continued: "Illegal migration is tearing our country apart", adding that it was the government's job to "unite our country".
"If we don't sort this out, I think our country becomes much more divided," she told the newspaper.
The policy has been copied from Denmark, where a government led by the centre-left Social Democrats has presided over one of the toughest asylum and immigration systems in Europe.
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BBC News???? Seriously?
collecting benefits the entire time while waiting.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood......nothing to see here, but ban those St George flags now
I’m sure that will deter them.
> collecting benefits the entire time while waiting <
Bingo.
Plus having kids.
Remigration NOW.
>> She continued: “Illegal migration is tearing our country apart”, adding that it was the government’s job to “unite our country”.
They’re obviously running scared, doing damage control... the rest of it is theatrics. She doesn’t really believe “illegal immigration is tearing our country apart”.
UK rarely if ever deports anyone. Due to their courts being so dominated by Muslim and lefty judges. Germany and France are about the same. But then we allowed Zombie Joe to let 12 million turd worlders flood in here.
Our only upside is that due to greater distances, we have far fewer Muzz and Africans than Europe.
Its ok, they can murder plenty of white native citizens bedore they get citizenship...
How many Lefty judges can there be. This new world will not produce any more.
The problem is, given the birthrates of Muslims versus the Native-Borne, they will be pressured to change the policy in the future. Sadly, Western Europe is doomed.
Maybe that was the plan, all along.
That would only be meaningful if they had to wait it out in some miserable 3rd world hellhole like Uganda. If everybody crossing the channel in a rubber dinghy were scooped up and whisked off to Uganda, they would stop crossing the channel in rubber dinghies within days.
Good luck with that, Wan-Keir.
BTW, if you clink at the above, not thr job description for the enemediot tasked to write this swill.
Audience editor?!?
WTH?!
Excellent idea, to have them wait in a 3rd world country.
Because this new plan is just stupidity.
I get 20 years in your country before you can throw me out? Considering appeals, you can count on 25 years. And if you’re over the age of 25, you can cry to the court that you’ve spent the your whole ‘working’ life in the UK and surely they can’t kick you out now.
Not a solution, in fact worse. Join us in just packing them up and sending them home.
Military age males who left their women and kids behind are NOT refugees.
They are mercenaries.
And they work for the UK’s Deep State.
"Temporarily" meaning 20 years. Yeah, that'll stop the boats...
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