JCWI legal action ends Rwanda limbo
Although the Rwanda removals policy was scrapped last year, over 2,000 asylum seekers were left in limbo – receiving letters suggesting they could still be removed to other countries if “circumstances change.”
JCWI launched a legal challenge, warning that this uncertainty risked retraumatising people who had already fled conflict and persecution. Hours before the scheduled court hearing, the Home Office published guidance confirming it had “discontinued inadmissibility action and is committed to substantively considering the merits of the asylum claims.”
JCWI solicitor Taher GulamhusseinThe prime minister said on his first day in office that the Conservative party’s Rwanda plan was a gimmick and that it was dead and buried. He then promised those migrants that their claims for asylum would finally be processed in the UK. Shortly after that he went back on his word and told those people that he reserved the right to consider removing them to another third country after all. We challenged that practice. We are pleased that more than an estimated 2,000 of those migrants left in limbo and uncertainty can finally rest that their asylum claims will only be processed in the UK.