he asylum case backlog has risen by 50 per cent in a 12 months to a report excessive with 172,758 folks nonetheless ready for a call on their declare for refugee standing, official figures revealed on Thursday.
The House Workplace statistics present that there have been 133,607 asylum instances, some involving a couple of particular person, awaiting an preliminary resolution on the finish of March. That compares with a complete of 89,344 excellent purposes a 12 months earlier, regarding 109,735 folks.
The information, which comes regardless of authorities pledges to cut back the backlog, is accompanied by an admission that “the variety of instances awaiting an preliminary resolution has elevated during the last 10 years” and grown “extra quickly since 2018” when there solely 22,100 instances awaiting an preliminary resolution.
Thursday’s figures additionally present that 54,653 of the instances within the backlog relate to asylum claims made after 28 June final 12 months and that total claims for asylum are at 75,492 — the best degree since 2002 when battle or political unrest in Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and Zimbabwe pushed the full even greater.
The overall variety of instances awaiting a call topped the earlier peak of 125,000, recorded in 1999.
Thursday’s figures present that the highest ten nationalities claiming asylum within the 12 months to the tip of March have been Albania, Afghanistan, Iran, India, Iraq, Bangladesh, Syria, Sudan, Eritrea and Pakistan.
The approval price was 99 per cent for candidates from Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea, 83 per cent for these from Sudan, and 5 per cent for Indians.
For asylum seekers from Albania, it was 33 per cent however many have been older instances, reflecting a special profile of applicant from the big variety of younger Albanian males who’ve arrived to say asylum previously 12 months.
