UK to soon clear Asylum Cases Backlog
By sanam | Sat, 10/10/2009 - 11:05
Backlog of pending cases of immigration seekers in UK has swelled to more than 540,000 cases with many of them having returned to their homeland of which the UK Government has no real estimate.
To ease this backlog, UK plans to relax the immigration rules for asylum seekers to clear entire backlog by mid 2011. More than 40000 of these cases come from African countries as Zimbabwe, Somalia and Nigeria that have scant respect for human rights.
New guidelines are expected to make settlement of refugees from these countries settle faster.
As per the information, as gathered from a leaked memo, the move is designed to help officials hit the 2011 deadline because pursuing removal of any difficult case would have taken too long.
The so-called 'legacy' backlog of 450,000 asylum cases, some dating back to the mid-1990s and which were never concluded, was first revealed by former Home Secretary John Reid in 2006 who then vowed to clear it within five years.
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