The Government is considering a range of proposals aimed at reducing the length of time the State’s asylum-seeking process takes. The most contentious proposal is that asylum seekers will no ...

Former Mumford & Sons musician and podcast host Winston Marshall asked the White House on Monday if President Donald Trump would give "political asylum" to UK citizens punished for their speech.

Republican lawmakers are seeking to give President Donald Trump broad powers to charge onerous fees to migrants seeking asylum in the United States -- suggesting a minimum cost of $1,000 per ...

In the two days since the new German government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz tightened border controls, 19 people who had applied for asylum have reportedly been turned away. Germany has begun ...

In mid-December, she and her mother fled Venezuela, intending to claim political asylum in the United States. But, midway through their journey north, President Donald Trump, in one of his first ...

At least 375 Nigerian citizens sought asylum in Sweden in 2024, according to the Swedish Migration Agency’s 2024 asylum application data obtained by Saturday PUNCH. Of figure, 239 were first ...

Venee fled rape and modern slavery, coming to the UK from Africa to seek asylum. She has just learned that her asylum case has been refused, with a decision made on the basis of a statement she wrote ...

The U.S. Department of Justice quietly instituted a policy in April that allows immigration judges to throw out immigrant asylum cases without a hearing. In an April 11 memo issued by the DOJ’s ...

In a 116-page reconciliation amendment from Chairman Jim Jordan, Republicans have proposed a whopping $1,000 fee for asylum-seekers—the first of its kind in U.S. history. The fee would be no ...

Asylum seekers will be denied the right to stay in the UK if they have been convicted of sexual offences, the government has announced. Any offender sentenced to more than a year in prison, as ...

Although she won her asylum case Thursday, Medina remains in federal custody for now. Still, she and her supporters considered the judge’s decision to be a victory. “I’m still in shock ...

Accommodation for asylum seekers will cost the taxpayer triple the amount the Home Office first claimed, according to new figures. Contracts signed by the Conservative government in 2019 were ...