UK to start processing Syrian asylum claims again

Britain, after the fall of the Assad regime, the decisions will begin to regain the Syrian asylum claims after more than seven months after the decisions have been paused.

Asylum Minister Dame Angela Eagle said that the Ministry of Interior “is trying to remove the pause as soon as possible to make accurate and well -proven determinations.”

He said that the allegations could now be processed and returned to Syria in accordance with it.

BBC News understands that more than 20 asylum seekers living in the UK voluntarily returned to Syria this year, and thousands of people can be covered by feedback.

Ministers hopes that the first returns to Syria can be realized before the end of the year and adds that they will not say that they are “one million miles away from a host source.”

The government has published updated guidance To decide the authorities about Syrian claims.

British, President Bashar al-Assad after years of civil war after the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) by a rebellious attack by a rebel attack in December, the decisions of Syria and permanent settlement allegations in December paused.

In a written statement, Dame Angela said that the pause is “a stable, objective information to make strong evaluations of the risk of return to Syria,” he said.

However, the movement waited for more than 7,000 Syrians to decide to make a shelter in the limb.

Most of them live in the accommodation financed by the state, like the hotel.

The pause was already given refugee status and applied to the Syrians who had the right to stay in the UK for five years before applying for a permanent settlement.

Campaigns say that released on this temporary status makes it difficult for people to provide a job or housing.

Enver Solomon, who welcomed the movement, said the General Manager of the Refugee Council Aid Authority said: “We know that the pause in the decision is stuck in the limb more, that he could not work, that they could not continue their lives and they will come.

“However, the situation in Syria continues to be unstable, and the government, every asylum application on the basis of the case by ensuring that the recycling of the Syrians to ensure the safety and protection of the Syrians to ensure excessive risk.”

The HTS figures, which are called a terrorist group by the UK, are now running the country, HTS leader Ahmad al -sharaa is called the temporary president of Syria earlier this year.

In accordance with the United Nations Refugee Convention, an individual must have a “very good fear of persecution” to be given asylum and refugee status.

The updated guidance of the Ministry of the Interior about Syria states that “law and order or uncertain security do not cause a very good fear of persecution within themselves”.

“There are no important reasons for believing that there is a real risk of serious harm in Syria due to a serious and individual threat to a civilian life or person due to non -discriminatory violence in the event of international or internal armed conflict.”

He continued: “All cases should be taken into consideration on individual realities, the person is on the person to show that they face persecution or serious damage.”

In England Gradually to remove sanctions on Syria.

The government’s updated guidance is based on a process similar to a risk assessment that examines whether Syria is considered a safe country.

This process is usually carried out jointly by the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and can only be done if the UK has some diplomatic relationship with the country in question.

At the beginning of this month, Foreign Minister David Lammy met with the temporary president Al-Sharaa because he was the first British minister to visit Syria since the uprising that led to the country’s civil war 14 years ago.

During Lammy’s visit, the figures in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs believed that any movement was again a few months away to start committing Syrian asylum claims.

However, some European countries have already begun to commit allegations, the Austria has been the first EU country to deport one since the fall of Assad.

The BBC was told that if the European countries began to commit allegations and return people, Britain believed that Britain had a risk of being seen as a more attractive place for Syrian refugees.

Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron increased concerns about “pulling factors” to bring immigrants to the UK on small boats. Before the agreement of a ‘s signed by England and France.

The ministers had previously claimed that the majority of Syrians who came to England before the fall of Assad had escaped from the regime and some might want to return.

Regarding the refunds, the guidance states that after the amendment in the government, the opponents of the former Assad regime are not only likely to be under the risk of Syria “.

In the case of religious minorities, Kurds, Christians, Draze and Shiite Muslims are “low likely to face a real persecution or serious damage risk from the state” and “otherwise the person to show otherwise”.

However, in areas under the actual control of the Syrian National Army, the Kurds – the coalition of the Turkish -supported rebel groups – based on the ethnic origins or the perceived political views, he added that he would face a real risk of cruelty or serious damage “.

In addition, although the new government tries to secure the members of the Alawite minority, they will not be subjected to violent retaliation, and they will face a real risk of persecution or serious harm from the state because of their religions and/or imposed political views. ”

Most of the political and military elite of the former Assad regime belonged to the Alevi sect.

Guide, in March Members of the Alawite Minority have been subjected to a series of attacks The estimated estimate, which was reported to be HTS groups, killed 800 people.