A record number of asylum seekers, many arriving on small boats, are claiming to be gay Credit: Gareth Fuller/PAPhoto by: Gareth Fuller/PA
A record number of asylum seekers claiming to be gay have been allowed to stay in Britain under ECHR rules.
The number of asylum seekers granted leave to stay in Britain based on their sexual orientation rose to 2,133 last year, up from 762 in 2022 and 677 in the year before that.
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The UK has accepted that people who would be criminalised or open to persecution because of their sexual orientation can claim asylum under the European Convention on Human Rights.
The number of asylum seekers being granted permission to stay based on their sexuality is an even more significant rise from the tally in 2019, when 475 successful claims were made.
Some of the rise in people being granted asylum by this route in the past year has been because of a backlog of applications, which built up during the pandemic.
Gaming the system
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Alp Mehmet, the chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said: “While it’s impossible to be sure of the genuineness of applicants claiming asylum based on their sexuality, there are too many examples of our being too ready to give the benefit of the doubt. The case of Nigerian Saheed Azeez could be the tip of the iceberg.”
* Original Article:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/16/asylum-seekers-claim-gay-rising-lie-cheat-system-boats-echr/