Immigration
Have 12,000 asylum seekers vanished in the UK?
Home Office data makes it unclear exactly what it means to have an asylum application “on hold”. Read
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Asylum seekers
Full Fact investigates claims and misinformation about asylum seekers in the UK and beyond.
Our fact checks examine statements from politicians, media reports and social media posts about numbers arriving, government policy, housing, and community impact.
Each article uses transparent data, verified official statistics and expert evidence to clarify what’s accurate, what’s misleading and what’s unproven.
Europe
How is the EU doing on refugee relocation?
The EU programme for relocating asylum seekers within Europe has seen 6,000 people move country in the past year. Read
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Immigration
Unaccompanied refugee children in Europe
How many unaccompanied children are in Europe and how many are claiming asylum here? Read
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Immigration
Counting the number of migrants in the Calais ‘jungle’
Officials and charities disagree over an extra 2,000 migrants in the Calais camp. We look at how both got their figures. Read
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Immigration
Where are the UK's refugees?
Reports that over 80% of councils have taken in no Syrian refugees under the main government resettlement programme are correct - up to a point. Read
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Refugees in Lebanon and the UK
Exact figures are hard to come by, but it seems correct to say that there are 10 times as many refugees in Lebanon as in the UK. Read
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Europe
Have 5,000 jihadis come into the EU?
Claims that there are 5,000 terrorists loose in Europe have been attributed to the director of Europol, the EU law enforcement agency. He says otherwise. Read
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Europe
The Sun, the OECD and asylum seekers
The Sun quotes the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development as saying that many migrants aren't fleeing war zones. Here's what else the OECD said. Read
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Europe
Are only one in five asylum seekers Syrian?
The Mail claims that 1 in 5 asylum seekers have been Syrian. The Guardian says there is evidence that's changing as the situation develops. Both are right. Read
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Immigration
Ask Full Fact: are asylum seekers mostly men?
Readers have asked us whether it's true that most refugees are male. Of those applying for asylum in the EU recently, more than half have been men aged over 18. Read
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