Asylum seekers will be denied the right to stay in the United Kingdom if they have sentenced their legs for sexual crimes, the government announced.
Terrorists, war criminals and any other criminal whose crimes have a sentence of one year or more can already be rejected asylum under the refugee convention.
According to the changes, this will be extended to any person convicted in the United Kingdom for a crime that places them in the registry of sexual criminals, regardless of the duration of their sentence.
The Secretary of the Interior, Yvette Cooper, said that “would guarantee the thesis of apple crimes seriously,” but the conservatives said the measures were “too small, too late.”
The changes will be introduced through an amendment to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration bill, which is currently opening through Parliament.
It is not clear how many cases the change could affect.
However, a source from the Interior Ministry said the ministers hoped to address cases such as Abdul Ezedi, who was granted asylum despite being a sentenced sexual criminal.
Ezedi committed suicide in a matter of hours after he was suspended from spraying his ex -girlfriend with a corrosive liquid when he attacked her and her children in southern London in January last year.
He was already in the registry of sexual criminals, after declaring himself guilty of positions of sexual assault and exhibition in 2018, when he was granted asylum in 2020 after two failed attempts.
The amendment will also establish a 24 -week objective for appeal decisions about whether asylum seekers who are foreign criminals or who are in accommodation financed by the Government have the right to remain in the United Kingdom or not, in an offer of baclog asylum.
The Secretary of the Interior said: “Sex criminals who represent a risk to the community should not be able to benefit from the protection of refugees in the United Kingdom.
“Nor should asylum seekers be trapped in hotels at the expense of taxpayers who turn legal battles.
“That is why we are changing the law to help clear the order portfolio, finish the use of asylum hotels and save billions of pounds for the taxpayer.”
The Interior Ministry said that taking advantage of artificial intelligence (AI) to process asylum statements could also save up to an hour -out -of time when summarizing interview transcripts and accessing countries advice.
A variety of measures are being introduced to reform the asylum system, including the new powers for the immigration advice authority to issue fines of up to £ 15000 for any person involved in fraudulent claims for advice or lawyer that is not registered.
There will also be restrictions on foreign criminals living in the community, including compulsory electronic labels, strict nightlife touches and forced exclusion areas.
Enver Salomon, executive director of the Refugee Council, welcomed the efforts to resolve asylum cases, but warned that the use of AI could “counterproduct” if it produced decisions of defects that end in court.
The Law Society of England and Wales also raised Conerns that the objective of the appeal decisions would be “unfeasible” in practice, since the justice system is already struggling to deal with current demand.
The Minister of Safeguardia, Jess Phillips, said that the action would complement the promise of the government in half of the violence against women and girls in a decade.
But the interior secretary of the conservative shadow, Chris Philp, said that the legislation was “very little, too late” and highlighted how a record of 10,000 people had crossed the channel this year Alreamy.
“Foreign criminals represent a danger to British citizens and must be eliminated, but either this is frustrated by legal claims spurious based on human rights claims, not in asylum claims,” he said.
“Conservatives had already presented difficult and clear reforms to eliminate all foreign criminals and to disappear the Human Rights Law so that activists and lawyers cannot block deportations.
“But the Labor voted against our measures: the control of our borders is not taken seriously.”
