The government is allowing illegal immigrants and asylum seekers to stay in the country because it fails to send staff to one in five appeal hearings.
Figures obtained under freedom of information (FoI) laws show that Home Office officials, who are supposed to defend decisions on asylum and immigration, failed to show up for 34,627 appeals last year, more than double the 2006 figure of 15,272.
Half of these hearings resulted in a victory for the appellant, up from just over a third two years ago. Many led to people staying who had been refused the right to remain.
The failure of the Home Office to send officials to fight its case was described as “inexcusable” by Chris Grayling, the Conservative shadow home secretary.'
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Now, if this were to do with any direct money related matter you can GUARANTEE that they would turn up at court.
ReplyDeleteAll kinds of bogus asylum seekers, crooks, thieves and scammers have invaded the country as a result.
UK is a complete joke, that's why every other EU reject makes their way over here.
I walked past some people tourists two weeks ago and I could hear them saying that London is overcrowded.
Anyone who votes Labour is equally a joker as well. Why should we continue to put up with this incompetence, I wonder!