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🚨 IN FULL: The changes to the UK's asylum system - Seek to deport families and children who failed at asylum, starting with voluntary return payments, then enforced removals after a consultation - Consult on cutting support for families who don't take steps to leave the UK after being refused asylum - Scrap the legal duty to support asylum seekers and replace it with a discretionary system - Deny support to any asylum seeker who has the right to work but doesn't, as well as those who break rules, deliberately become destitute, or commit crimes - Require asylum seekers to hand over non essential assets such as jewellery, but not wedding rings, and sell it to help pay for their accommodation - This includes any money or assets they brought with them or gained in the UK on a visa route before claiming asylum - Allow the Home Office to demand repayment later if it turns out someone had assets they didn’t declare or if those assets become usable after support is given - Cut the time someone can stay after being granted protection from five years to 30 months, after which their status will be reviewed and returned to their home country if deemed safe - Force refugees to wait 20 years before they can permanently stay in the UK, which can be shortened if they switch to a work route or pay a fee for a study route - Ban automatic family reunion for everyone on the basic protection route, but leave it open to some of those on the work or study route, with separate rules for children and families still to be decided - Plan to restrict benefits for people granted asylum unless they are working or contributing to the economy - Plan to force people back to countries the Government now considers safe enough to return to, including Syria - Impose visa penalties or sanctions on countries that refuse to take back their own citizens, starting with Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo - Deport foreign offenders from the first day of their prison sentence - Roll out new age-check technology using AI facial analysis - Continue to explore the use of "return hubs" - safe third countries that failed asylum seekers can be sent to instead of their country of origin Reform of claims, appeals and human rights law: - Fast-track and refuse clearly weak claims from safe countries after one interview - Allow failed asylum seekers one single appeal only - Create a new appeals body to speed up such appeals and require all evidence in one go - Deny refugee status to people who arrived on a visa, then claimed asylum but still travel back to their home country (for holidays) without difficulty - Stop last-minute human rights claims from halting removal by fast-tracking them and rejecting weak ones immediately if they don’t meet a higher bar - Restrict the use of ECHR Article 8 family life claims by limiting it to immediate family only and tightening when these claims can be made - Push for a stricter reading of Article 3, used to block removals on "inhumane or medical grounds", by working with European countries - Tighten modern slavery rules by removing second-chance appeals and making sure any slavery claims are checked much earlier, so people can’t use last-minute claims to stop a flight Legal routes: - Introduce an annual cap on people arriving through safe and legal routes - Make local groups and charities responsible for bringing most refugees to the UK through a new community sponsorship system, determined by capacity - Create new capped routes for refugee students and skilled displaced workers - Keep flexibility to respond to crises like Ukraine or Gaza