British government looks to make changes to the country's asylum system
發佈日期: 2025-09-02 21:48
TVB News
The British government has announced a series of new plans as it looks to make changes to the UK's asylum system.
The measures include temporarily suspending refugee family reunification applications.
YVETTE COOPER, British Home Secretary: "Reforms are needed, so in our asylum policy statement later this year, we will set out a new system for family migration, including looking at contribution requirements, longer periods before newly granted refugees can apply and dedicated control arrangements for unaccompanied children and for those fleeing persecution who have family in the UK. And we aim to have some of those changes in place for the spring. But in the meantime, we do need to address the immediate pressures on local authorities and the risks from criminal gangs using family reunion as a pull factor to encourage more people onto dangerous boats. Therefore, we are bringing forward new immigration rules this week to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing dedicated refugee family reunion route. Until the new framework is introduced, refugees will be covered by the same family migration rules and conditions as everyone else."
British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper also announced plans to create a new independent body to deal with asylum appeal.
She emphasised the need to close asylum hotels.
The number of asylum-seekers housed in hotels in the UK stood at just over 32,000 at the end of June.
That figure was up 8 percent from about 29,500 a year earlier.
In recent weeks, protesters have taken to the streets across the UK, calling for a ban on housing asylum seekers in hotels.
