The Home Office and Sweden’s Migration Agency face similar challenges in assessing asylum claims based sexual orientation or gender identity. This is a guest blog by a former member of staff at Sweden’s Migration Agency. The views are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of …
Report by the Home Affairs Select Committee urges government to ‘recognise that LGBTQI+ people are vulnerable in immigration detention’. An inquiry into immigration detention by the Home Affairs Select Committee has criticised the government for not recognising lesbian, gay and bisexual people as adults at risk in immigration detention centres. …
Statement on report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights Leila Zadeh, Executive Director of UKLGIG, said, “We welcome the recommendation from the Joint Committee on Human Rights to put a time limit on immigration detention. The UK is the only country in Europe that does not impose a …
New statistics show proportion of LGB-related asylum claims granted protection by the Home Office fell between 2015 and 2017. Home Office experimental statistics released today reveal that the grant rate for people claiming asylum on the basis of their sexual orientation fell from 39% in 2015 to 22% in 2017. …
Report finds Home Office system for providing accommodation to people seeking asylum is inadequate to ‘take proper account of the needs of LGBTQI+ individuals’. An independent inspection of the Home Office’s management of asylum accommodation has found that the Home Office is not giving any choice to LGBTQI+ people about …
HOME OFFICE SETTING THE BAR TOO HIGH FOR ASYLUM CLAIMS FROM LGBTQI+ PEOPLE. Home Office decision-makers are not applying the correct legal standard of proof of ‘reasonable likelihood’ in all asylum claims based on sexual orientation or gender identity. LGBTQI+ claimants are routinely disbelieved if they didn’t apply for …
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