People who originally came to the UK to seek asylum made up an estimated 5% of the UK’s foreign-born population in 2019, and 0.6% of the UK’s total resident population An estimated 388,000 foreign-born people living in the UK in 2019 originally came to the UK to seek asylum, according to Migration Observatory analysis of the Labour Force Survey. [...] COVID-19 substantially reduced asylum seeking and refugee resettlement in the UK in 2020 – though in 2021, asylum seeking was at its highest level since 2003 The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns had a substantial impact on all major aspects of asylum seeking in the UK, and on the asylum system (Figure 3). [...] Other factors that are likely to influence the time taken to process asylum applications include: changes in administrative policy and management, including the end of the Detained Fast-Track process in 2015; resource constraints or capacity (although the number of asylum caseworkers stood at the highest level in a decade: 600 in the financial year 2020/21); and the shifting characteristics of app. [...] When compared against EU+ countries, in 2021 the UK ranked 6th in the absolute number of people to whom it gave protection, comprising asylum seekers and resettled refugees With regard to the in-country asylum process, in 2021, the UK received around 56,500 asylum applicants, the fourth highest when compared with the EU+ (the EU-27 plus Switzerland and the three EEA countries, Iceland, Liechtenste. [...] BRIEFING: Asylum and refugee resettlement in the UK The Migration Observatory Based at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, the Migration Observatory provides independent, authoritative, evidence-based analysis of data on migration and migrants in the UK, to inform media, public and policy debates, a.
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