Asylum seekers- time to Lift the Ban

GagaJo

Yep. Asylum seeker friends of mine 14/15 years for a final decision.

What possible justification can there be for taking so long? How on earth did they manage to live without work for so many years? I accept there is probably a huge backlog but there can't be any justification for taking more than one year to process an application, with the aim of bringing it down to 6 months.

The job of being a carer should not be seen as a useful way of employing asylum seekers. It is an important service and people being cared for deserve to have properly trained staff who choose to do the job.

Oh for heavens sake Orea many of these people fleeing a war torn country are doctors dentists and other professions you cannot pay the thousands necessary to get out the country unless you have money Of course if they arrive with no paperwork it will be a different and need to be tackled differently but certainly all those with paperwork shouldn’t be held for years waitingdoing nothing while they could be helping our economy (selfish as that might sound) as well as themselves
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As Asylum Seekers are predominantly young men I really don’t see many being suitable care workers, there is plenty of other work they could and should be doing.

Yep. Asylum seeker friends of mine 14/15 years for a final decision.

Excellent idea Veganrock

You need to be very careful what jobs they’d be doing tho.
Not carers of any kind.Nobody knows if they have criminal records in their own countries as many destroy their own paperwork and use false names.

Maybe best to speed up the process so decisions don’t take years. Allow asylum seekers to work after 6 months as in other countries, then that might focus the Home Office.

And if their application is subsequently refused? Fast forward to a claim under the HRA because they have established a life, maybe family, here and/or a successful appeal based on the status they have established, regardless of good reasons for refusal in the first place.