Public to decide asylum cases as Mahmood pledges to speed up decisions
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will establish an Independent Immigration Appeals Authority by late 2027 to speed up asylum appeal decisions and reduce the backlog of over 150,000 cases, which currently take an average of 61 weeks to clear, prioritising high-risk offenders and meritless human rights claims.
- The new appeals body will involve professionally trained adjudicators from diverse backgrounds and include a single appeal route to prevent multiple claims that delay removals.
- The Immigration and Asylum Bill will introduce tightened deportation rules, restrictions on misuse of the European Convention on Human Rights, and enhanced age checks to identify adults posing as children.
- The Home Office plans to expand removal centres at Campsfield and Haslar to increase capacity and facilitate the removal of over 45,000 people without the right to stay.
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Great British public hired as immigration judges in bid to deport bogus asylum seekers - could YOU be one?
Members of the public are set to be hired to judge immigration appeals to speed up the deportation of bogus asylum seekers.Shabana Mahmood is set to announce plans to recruit hundreds of people to serve as adjudicators in magistrate-style reforms to the appeals process.The Home Secretary will include the changes in the Immigration and Asylum Bill on Tuesday.Illegal migrants will get only one chance to appeal against rejected claims under the new…
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Public to decide asylum cases as Mahmood pledges to speed up decisions
The Home Secretary will set out plans for a new independent body made up of people from a range of backgrounds with training similar to magistrates.
Shabana Mahmood to set up new independent appeals body to slash asylum backlog
EXCLUSIVE: Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will set up a new Independent Immigration Appeals Authority (IIAA), which will prioritise cases such as high-risk foreign offenders and human rights claims believed to be without merit
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