UK promises to improve 'broken' asylum system amid wave of anti-migrant protests:
As anti-migrant protests continued outside hotels housing asylum seekers on ...
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UK Plans Major Overhaul of Asylum SystemWith 106,000 pending cases and 53 weeks average appeal wait, a new independent body aims to speed up asylum decisions.
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- The UK government announced plans to reform the asylum process to reduce long appeal delays and phase out hotel accommodations for migrants.
- Nationwide protests erupted against migrant housing in hotels, sparked by a sexual assault case at a hotel in Epping.
- More than 32,000 asylum seekers currently reside in hotels, while over 106,000 asylum cases, including 51,000 appeals, remain unresolved.
- An independent appeals panel modeled on European systems will be created to alleviate the overloaded judiciary and accelerate case outcomes.
We inherited an asylum system in complete chaos with a soaring backlog of asylum cases and a broken appeals system.— Yvette Cooper, interior minister, in a press release.
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