Hoonercat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:49 am
While the UK was in the EU, applications for asylum in the UK could be made from within the EU. That process became much more difficult after Brexit (along with legislation 'allowing' the UK to send them back to the first safe country), hence why the numbers making the crossing to Dover exploded after Brexit.
Just me being thick, I don't understand why the numbers increased after Brexit?
While the UK was part of the EU, asylum claims to the UK could be made from another EU country. Now...
To claim asylum in the UK, a person must be in the UK. It is not possible to apply from outside the country, and there is no asylum visa.
irie wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:34 pm
Would you please compare in numerical terms the UK's current financial situation with what it would now have been had the UK remained in the EU.
Thanks.
800 UK P&O jobs lost, and how many from other European countries?
How many pigs destroyed because there wasn't enough slaughtermen?
irie wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:34 pm
Would you please compare in numerical terms the UK's current financial situation with what it would now have been had the UK remained in the EU.
Thanks.
800 UK P&O jobs lost, and how many from other European countries?
How many pigs destroyed because there wasn't enough slaughtermen?
... the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility has said.
Richard Hughes said leaving the EU would reduce the UK's potential GDP by about 4% in the long term.
He said forecasts showed the pandemic would reduce GDP "by a further 2%".
"In the long term it is the case that Brexit has a bigger impact than the pandemic", he told the BBC.
His comments come after the OBR said the cost of living could rise at its fastest rate for 30 years, with suggestions inflation could hit almost 5%.
Speaking after Wednesday's Budget, Mr Hughes said recent data showed the impact of Brexit was "broadly consistent" with the OBR's assumption that the leaving the EU would "reduce our long run GDP by around 4%"
"A government fund designed to replace EU grants lost due to Brexit has been criticised as “nothing more than an outrage” that will leave English regions tens of millions of pounds worse off than when Britain was in the EU.
The Conservative’s 2019 manifesto promised “at a minimum” to match the average EU subsidy of about £1.5bn a year to help the most deprived parts of the UK.
But details of the government’s Shared Prosperity Fund show that it will hand out only £2.6bn over the next three years and will not match the previous EU funding level of £1.5bn a year until 2025"
The UK's proposal to send some migrants who arrive in Britain on small boats to Rwanda is a breach of international law, the UN's refugee agency has said.
The UNHCR called it a "troubling development" and said the UK was seeking to "shift responsibility".
Blundering about trying not to make too much of a hash of things.
The UK's proposal to send some migrants who arrive in Britain on small boats to Rwanda is a breach of international law, the UN's refugee agency has said.
The UNHCR called it a "troubling development" and said the UK was seeking to "shift responsibility".
Yet the UNHCR sends refugees to Rwanda for processing under their own deal.
Welcome to the ‘Help’ website run by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Here, refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons can find information to help them know more about their rights, obligations and services available to them in Rwanda.
On this site, refugees and asylum-seekers in Rwanda can find information about:
➡ Coronavirus (COVID-19 Updates)
➡ How to seek help and contact UNHCR
➡ Helpful services in Rwanda
➡ Registration
➡ Documentation
➡ Legal Assistance
➡ Education
➡ Have you experienced violence?
➡ Child Protection
➡ Family Reunification
➡ Resettlement
➡ Working in Rwanda
➡ Voluntary Return
➡ Food Assistance
➡ Complaints and Feedback
➡ Useful Information
Rwanda is hosting around 77,000 refugees from DRC, and, 71,000 refugees from Burundi amongst others, in camps and urban settings. As a result of election-related tensions in neighbouring Burundi, Rwanda has opened its border to Burundian refugees who have fled the country since April 2015.
UNHCR Kirehe Sub Office, in cooperation with the Government of Rwanda, is in charge of Mahama Refugee Camp, which is UNHCR’s sixth and newest camp in Rwanda.
That's not this:
Mussels wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:55 pm
UNHCR sends refugees to Rwanda for processing
Or are UNHCR in Burindi etc sending refugees to Rwanda?
The group of 116 landed at Kigali International Airport at 22:45 last night (Sunday 24 November). They have been taken to a transit facility in Gashora, where UNHCR is providing them with life-saving assistance, including food, water, medical care, psycho-social support, and accommodation.
“As violence in Tripoli intensifies, these evacuations have never been more urgent,” said Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR Special Envoy for the Central Mediterranean.
Are you drawing a comparison with the UK's care of asylum seekers?
