Visas: Asylum

(asked on 16th May 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that people on (a) family and (b) student visas do not claim asylum when there has not been a material change in circumstances in their country of origin.


Answered by
Angela Eagle Portrait
Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 22nd May 2025

I refer the Rt Hon Member to the announcements made in this area in the Immigration White Paper published on 12 May 2025, further details of which will be set out in due course.

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