Figures show large numbers of those denied asylum have been able to sneak back into the UK and have been allowed to stay – The Sun

A HUGE number of asylum seekers were able to sneak back into the UK and were then allowed to stay after making a second application, shocking figures show.

A total of 113 'boomerang refugees' made successful claims in the year, despite having previously been refused and deported from the UK.

Numbers – obtained from Internal office – show that some waited years to file new claims, while others were filed just weeks after the first denial.

The latest available statistics for 2021 show that the number increased by 39 cases in 2020. And in 2019, there were only 50.

In one case, an an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK in April 2020 had their application refused and were turned away France in August of the same year.

But just two months later, they returned to the UK and made another asylum application, which was approved only ten months later.

In another case, the applicant arrived in the UK in July 1998.

Their case dragged on until April 2007 when their first claim was dismissed and they were reinstated Sri Lanka.

Then 12 years later, in 2019, they returned to the UK, where their application spent two years in the system before being granted.

The records show how a man was sent back to Namibia in August 2010 after his asylum claim was rejected, only for him to return to the UK eight years later and be granted asylum.

In another case, a man who arrived in the UK in 2013 lost his asylum claim and was sent back to Albania three years later.

However, just eight months later they returned to the UK and lodged a second claim, which sat in the system for four years before being settled.

The casebook shows that these second asylum claims came from people who were removed from the UK to countries around the world, including Iraq, Iranafghanistan, SudanPakistan and Albania.

Alp Mehmetchairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “Such reversals of earlier decisions are surprising.

“All we can assume is that the failed claimants and their legal representatives have learned the lessons of previous failures and modified their claims accordingly.

“It is not surprising that we are now considered gullible, soft. And poor old people, put on the feet of taxpayers account.”

A Home Office spokesman said: “All asylum applications are considered on their individual merits and if matters relevant to the asylum claim have changed, such as personal circumstances or conditions in their home country, we are right to consider them carefully.

“The Government is going even further with our Illegal Migration Act, which will mean that people who arrive in the UK illegally are detained and immediately removed to their country of origin or a safe third country.”