Asylum seekers and refugees
Fact checks about refugees and asylum seekers in the UK
Refugees in the UK
How many refugees and asylum seekers are there in the United Kingdom?
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The Dubs Amendment: 3,000 refugee children?
The government never officially said that 3,000 child refugees would be accepted under the Dubs Amendment, although some campaigners say they expected that many to arrive.
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Ask Full Fact: 'Dubs' and 'Dublin'
What are the Dubs 'amendment' and 'Dublin regulation', and why are they relevant to closing the migrant camp at Calais?
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The UK, the USA, and Syrian refugees
We’ve looked into Jeremy Corbyn’s and Theresa May’s claims on the government response to the recent US order on refugees, and to the wider Syrian crisis.
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Why do migrants and asylum seekers want to come to the UK?
We look at what the experts say on how, if at all, asylum seekers choose between potential countries of refuge.
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Asylum seekers, the UK and Europe
In 2015, the UK had the ninth highest number of asylum seekers in the EU, and the fifth highest number of people accepted as refugees.
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We aren't spending £36m just to close the Calais 'jungle'
The UK has committed £36 million to “maintain security” in Calais. Some of this money will be used to close the ‘Jungle’ camp, but some is also being spent on …
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Do 74 people try to enter the UK illegally every day?
There were 164,000 attempts to cross into the UK made between 2010 and 2015, although these figures don’t correspond to individual people.
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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”.
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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.
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