Britain to start processing Syrian asylum requests again

The United Kingdom must begin to process Syrian asylum requests more than seven months after the decisions were stopped after the fall of the Assad regime.

Asylum Minister Damla Orel said that the interior office “worked to remove the pause as soon as there was enough information to make accurate and well justified definitions.”

She said the allegations can now be processed and returned to Syria, held in accordance with that.

The BBC News understands that more than 20 asylum seekers who have lived in the UK have already voluntarily returned to Syria this year – and that thousands of others can now be resorted to.

Ministers hoped that the first return in Syria could take place before the end of the year, with a senior source of home office added that they would “not say it was a million miles.”

The Government has published updated guidance for officials to make decisions on Syrian claims.

The United Kingdom stopped Syrian asylum claim decisions and a constant settlement in December after President Bashar al -Assad was overthrown by a rebel offensive led by Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al -Sham after years of the Civil War.

In a written statement, I said Angela that the pause “is a necessary step until there is no stable, objective information to make stable risk assessments when returning to Syria.”

However, this move left more than 7,000 Syrians in anticipation of a solution to request asylum in Limbo.

Most of them live in government-funded accommodation, like hotels.

The pause also applies to Syrians who have already received refugee status and initially granted the right to remain in the UK for five years before they can apply for a permanent agreement.

Campaigns say that being left with this temporary status makes it difficult for people to secure a job or home.

Helping this move, Enver Solomon, CEO of the Charity Organization of the Board of Refugees, said: “We know that the pause in decision -making has left Syrian people caught in the more limbs, unable to work, continue their lives and fear for their future.

“However, the situation in Syria is still unstable and we urge the government to ensure that any asylum application is evaluated on a case -by -case basis, ensuring the safety and protection of Syrians who would face a high risk if returned.”

HTS -related figures – which is designated as a terrorist group from the United Kingdom – now it rules the country, with HTS leader Ahmad al -Sharaa described as a temporary president of Syria earlier this year.

According to the Convention on the Refugees of the United Nations, one must have a “well -justified fear of persecution” in order to gain asylum and refugee status.

The updated guidelines of the internal office regarding Syria state that “the breakup of the law and the order or the uncertain security situations in themselves do not give rise to a well -founded fear of persecution.”

“There is no significant reason to believe that there is a real risk of serious harm in Syria due to a serious and individual threat to life or a person of civilian due to indiscriminate violence in an international or domestic armed conflict situation,” he adds.

“All cases should be considered by their individual facts, such as a person’s weight to demonstrate that he is confronted with persecution or serious harm.”

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The updated government leadership is based on a risk assessment process that examines whether Syria is considered a safe country.

This process is usually conducted jointly by the internal office and the foreign service and can only be done if the United Kingdom has any diplomatic relations with the country in question.

Earlier this month, Foreign Secretary David Lamie met with temporary President Al Sharaa, as he became the first minister of the United Kingdom to visit Syria as the uprising that led to the country’s civil war began 14 years ago.

During the visit of Lami, the numbers inside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs believe that every move to start the processing of Syrian asylum requests is probably still several months old.

But some European countries have already begun to process claims, with Austria becoming the first EU country to deport someone after Assad’s fall.

The BBC has been said that senior home office figures believe that there is a risk that the United Kingdom will be seen as a more attractive place for asylum seekers in Syria if European countries begin to process claims and return people, but the United Kingdom does not.

Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed concerns about the “pull factors” attracting migrants to come to the UK on small boats, Before a deal with One In, One, signed by the United Kingdom and France.

Earlier, the ministers suggested that the greater part of the Syrians who arrived in the UK before the fall of Assad were fleeing the regime, and some may want to return.

On the issue of return, management notes that after the government’s change in the government, opponents of the former Assad regime are “unlikely to be at risk when returning to Syria only on this basis.”

With regard to the situation of religious minorities, it is stated that the Kurds, Christians, Druz and Shiite Muslims “are unlikely to face a real risk of persecution or serious damage from the state” and “the burden on man is to demonstrate another.”

However, this adds that the Kurds in areas under the factual control of the Syrian National Army – a coalition of rebel -backed rebel groups – “will probably face a real risk of persecution or serious harm” on the basis of their ethnicity or perceived political opinion.

It also states that although the new government has sought to assure Alavit’s minority members that they will not be subjected to violent repression, Alavites “are likely to face a real risk of persecution or serious harm by the state because of their religion and/or political opinion.”

Many of the political and military elite of the former Assad regime belonged to the Alawite sect.

Management notes that in March Alawite minority members were subject to a series of attacks who died approximately 800 people, such as HTS -related groups, reported to have participated.