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Home Office to introduce new asylum routes to UK
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- PA Media By Sean Seddon Published22 minutes ago The Home Office is to introduce new "capped safe and legal" routes for asylum seekers to arrive in the UK later this year.
- The department said it would allow organisations like universities, community groups and businesses to sponsor refugees who apply to come to Britain, a model based on Canada's asylum system.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the new system would protect "genuine refugees" while "closing loopholes that have been too often abused".
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PA Media By Sean Seddon Published22 minutes ago The Home Office is to introduce new "capped safe and legal" routes for asylum seekers to arrive in the UK later this year.
The department said it would allow organisations like universities, community groups and businesses to sponsor refugees who apply to come to Britain, a model based on Canada's asylum system.
Alongside the new asylum route, the government said it would press ahead with changes to how human rights and modern slavery laws are applied to asylum applications, which the government says will root out "vexatious" claims.
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