The Migration Statistics Quarterly Report: May 2020 was released today (21 May). We welcome the fact that fewer people are in detention, but it’s concerning that 650 people were in detention for more than 28 days, including one person who was held for almost three years. The figures also show …
Today’s publication of the Independent Chief Inspector’s audit report on the Home Office’s Adults at Risk policy has highlighted a contradiction in the Home Office’s own policies and guidance. On the one hand, they say sexual orientation is not a risk factor, and elsewhere they recognise that open expression of your …
UKLGIG presented evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee’s Covid-19 inquiry in a joint submission with Asylum Matters, Detention Action, Doctors of the World UK, Freedom From Torture, The No Accommodation Network, Refugee Action, Refugee Council, and the Scottish Refugee Council. People in the asylum system are among those in …
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. …
