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Campaign urges end to asylum seeker work banMore than 133,000 people were awaiting initial asylum decisions at the end of 2024.
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- Former asylum seekers and campaigners staged protests across the United Kingdom this week against the work ban.
- After more than 12 months, asylum seekers may apply for permission to work if delays were not their fault; only selected occupations qualify.
- At the end of 2024, over 133,000 people awaited initial decisions; 60% had waited longer than six months, nearly two-thirds over a year.
- The Lift The Ban coalition of more than 300 groups supports work rights after six months; the Home Office currently has no such plans.
If people were given the right to work then they would be part of their communities, and we would not have this misconception of asylum seekers both taking our jobs and depending on public funds. The reality is that people are not allowed to work and they don’t have access to public funds [beyond the weekly allowance].— Pinar Aksu, the human rights and advocacy coordinator at the Maryhill Integration Network in Glasgow, speaking to STV News
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