Asylum

A Trump-era policy forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are processed in the US must be reinstated following a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The top court refused to grant the Biden administration a stay on a district court injunction pending app

When news broke in June that a Sudanese asylum seeker had been shot dead after stabbing six people in a Glasgow hotel there was an immediate public outcry. How, people wanted to know, could a system that is supposed to protect the vulnerable have allowed a man with obvious mental health difficulties

An application for appeal against the Inner House's judgment in the Serco lock eviction case is to be made this week. Mike Dailly, principal of Govan Law Centre, said in his column for the Evening Times that he will lodge an application seeking permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.

The implications of Brexit for asylum policy and for vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers in Europe have been highlighted in a new Lords committee report. The most significant implication of UK withdrawal from the EU’s Dublin System – which determines responsibility for asylum applicat

More than 30 organisations working with migrants and refugees have written to the new Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to raise a number of pressing issues "which require action if the immigration and asylum system is to regain the trust of the public". The letter, whose signatories include representati

The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has been granted leave to intervene in the continuing legal challenge to the “serious human rights implications” of Serco's lock-change policy. The private accommodation provider began its mass eviction policy of up to 300 people in Glasgo

A Glasgow MP has presented a bill to the UK Parliament this week to protect asylum seekers from eviction. Private housing provider Serco had issued a series lock-change orders to more than 300 people refused asylum in the UK, although the action has been temporarily stalled by a series of interim in

Hundreds of asylum seekers face eviction after housing provider Serco announced it is restarting its lock-changing programme. It first announced it was handing out eviction notices to tenants who had been denied the right to remain in the UK last July.

Home Office rules on determining if asylum seekers are younger than 18 are unlawful, senior judges have ruled. The Court of Appeal has supported a claim made by an Eritrean man, who sought asylum in 2014, The Times reports.