Failed asylum seekers will be given choice to move to Rwanda — and paid thousands by UK taxpayers to do it

FAILED asylum seekers will be offered the choice to move voluntarily to Rwanda under a new scheme.

It is separate from the long-standing plan to forcibly and quickly deport illegal migrants to the east African nation.

Now Britain has struck a new deal with Kigali to rehome those who have already gone through the asylum process and been refused permission to stay.

Usually the Home Office would help return them to their home country, but the new policy would offer them the choice to move to Rwanda.

Like the illegal migration scheme, they would get thousands of pounds from British taxpayers to start new lives.

Last year 19,000 failed asylum seekers were voluntarily removed from the UK, after being told they would never get the rights of legal migrants such as the right to work.

The Home Office said: “We are exploring voluntary relocations for those who have no right to be here to Rwanda, who stand ready to accept people who wish to rebuild their lives and cannot stay in the UK.#

“This is in addition to our Safety of Rwanda Bill and Treaty which, when passed, will ensure people who come to the UK illegally are removed to Rwanda.”

Because it would be a voluntary rehoming, the plan does not require legislation as the illegal deportation scheme does.

The Safety of Rwanda Bill last night passed the House of Lords and will return back to the Commons in a watered-down form.

MPs are expected to strip out peers’ changes that weaken the Bill, in the hope of getting the first removal flights going by the spring.

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Jack Elsom

March 12, 2024 8:30 pm