Press Releases

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 …

  UKLGIG joins the international condemnation of acts in Chechnya. UKLGIG is appalled by reports coming from the Russian Republic of Chechnya that approximately 100 gay and bisexual men or men perceived to be gay or bisexual, have been rounded up by local militia and authorities and detained in unofficial …