{"id":678534,"date":"2026-09-08T12:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/678534\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T12:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:47:19","slug":"just-1-of-asylum-pleas-are-genuine-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/678534\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Just 1% of asylum pleas are genuine\u2019 in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only one in 100 asylum seekers are genuine, a Home Office whistleblower in the UK has claimed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The former Home Office insider, who worked for years assessing thousands of claims, told The Times newspaper in a report<\/a><\/strong> published Monday that many migrants use the \u201csame script\u201d and that the process has turned into a \u201cmassive fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report has sparked backlash against the abuse of the UK\u2019s \u201cdysfunctional\u201d asylum system.<\/p>\n

Claims made in the bombshell investigation include \u201chundreds\u201d of Iraqi Kurds petitioning to stay in the UK, claiming they were all in a relationship with the same daughter of the Kurdish Prime Minister. Meanwhile, it is claimed by the whistleblower that scores of Pakistanis claimed they could not return home as they were in a homosexual relationship with the same man, who would provide letters supporting their claims.<\/p>\n

The former official said many applying to stay in Britain were ultimately using the \u2018same script\u2019.<\/p>\n

In a 2024 Home Office study, Pakistan had the largest number of claimants stating to be gay or bisexual. Pakistani people are among the most common nationalities claiming asylum in Britain (10%) followed by Eritrean (8 %), Iranian (8%), Sudanese (7%) and Afghan (7%).<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s almost no aspect of the asylum system that isn\u2019t either a massive fraud or just really dysfunctional,\u201d said the whistleblower. He said that claimants only needed to undergo a brief screening initially, which was followed by an interview by officials some months later. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis gives them time to prepare, time to get advice, time to see exactly what fake evidence they can get before committing to a story at full interview,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He told the newspaper that he believed some claims included fake police and court documents, however officials in the UK were prohibited from contacting the home countries due to confidentiality rules.<\/p>\n

According to British Government data, 39% of all asylum claims came from those who entered the UK on a work, study, or visitor visa and overstayed.<\/p>\n

The former employee spoke of an internal bias towards giving the green-light to claims, which would only take mere minutes, rather than spending hours rejecting an application.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It comes after an investigation<\/a><\/strong> by the BBC, released in April, caught legal advisors telling undercover reporters that asylum seekers can pretend to be gay to stay in Britain.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, a woman in her late 40s was arrested on suspicion of providing an immigration service contrary to section 91 of the Immigration and Asylum Act, while a man in his early twenties was also arrested on suspicion of fraud, according to a Home Office source.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The probe exposed a network of asylum experts in Britain charging up to \u00a37,000 to coach migrants whose visas are expiring on how to pose as gay. Clients, it was found, were given cover stories and told how to falsify evidence such as supporting letters, photos from LBGT nightclubs and medical reports.<\/p>\n

Migrants then used this training to claim asylum in the UK on the basis that they risk deadly persecution if they were to return to countries such as Pakistan or Bangladesh, where homosexual acts are against the law.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s asylum process offers protection to people who cannot return to their home countries because they would be in danger.<\/p>\n

The UK\u2019s Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said in response: \u201cAnyone abusing protections for people fleeing persecution over gender or sexual orientation is beyond contempt.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLet me be clear: try to defraud the British people to enter or remain in the UK and your asylum claim will be refused, your support cut off, and you will find yourself on a one-way flight out of Britain.<\/p>\n

\u201cSham lawyers facilitating this abuse will face the full force of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) told the BBC it was urgently following up with all the firms it regulated which were identified in the sting.<\/p>\n

Laura Rogowski Weldon, a former welfare manager for the Home Office\u2019s asylum contractor,\u00a0 who was also a 2024 Conservative general election candidate, today highlighted concerns relating to those who make the claim that they are victims of modern slavery \u2013 which she said may be the \u201cbiggest scam of them all.\u201d<\/p>\n

She told the Daily Mail: \u201cThe problem is that aside from the blatantly risible examples in the article there are thousands of other vague and unprovable claims for asylum. The biggest one is modern slavery.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you come here illegally and work cash in hand at a car wash and live in a shed round the back, the dodgy guy who owns it is not going to whip out a load of paperwork to show you were there of your own free will when it gets raided, so you claim asylum and they can\u2019t prove you weren\u2019t forced to do it so you get approved. That is the biggest scam of them all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In response, a Home Office spokesperson told The Times: \u201cWe do not comment on anonymous briefings. We have robust processes to test credibility and identify fraudulent claims.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf any evidence of fraud or misrepresentation is discovered during the process, those individuals will have their claim revoked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has seen the asylum grant rate falling from 77 per cent in 2022 to 38 per cent this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur new Immigration and Asylum Bill will ensure asylum processing is swift and fair, allowing us to further bear down on those who abuse the immigration system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Home Secretary has been clear that those trying to defraud the British people to remain in the UK will have their application refused and find themselves on a one-way flight out of Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only one in 100 asylum seekers are genuine, a Home Office whistleblower in the UK has claimed. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[83593,53,9,10,3248,13,14,12668,6,56261,12669,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-678534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-asylum","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-britain","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-fraud","tag-headlines","tag-home-office","tag-investment-fraud","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117235498573156556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}