November 16, 2025 Meet the Middle East

Britain to make refugee status temporary under asylum overhaul

By Catarina Demony and Alistair SmoutLONDON (Reuters) -Britain said it would make refugee status temporary and the wait for permanent settlement would be quadrupled to 20 years under the country's most sweeping overhaul of policy on asylum seekers in modern times.The Labour government has been hardening its immigration policies, above all on illegal small-boat crossings from France, in efforts to stem the soaring popularity of the populist Reform UK party, which has driven the immigration agenda.
Source: Al Monitor
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