{"id":8409,"date":"2026-03-24T06:51:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8409"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:51:52","slug":"uk-asylum-claims-drop-slightly-in-2025-as-small-boat-arrivals-rise-by-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/24\/uk-asylum-claims-drop-slightly-in-2025-as-small-boat-arrivals-rise-by-13\/","title":{"rendered":"UK asylum claims drop slightly in 2025 as small boat arrivals rise by 13%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recent Home Office figures show that while small boat arrivals rose by 13% in 2025, overall asylum claims in the UK actually fell by 4% to approximately 100,625. This decrease is attributed to a 20% drop in people using other illegal routes, such as lorries, alongside a significant 30% reduction in work-related visas. The government has also made progress in reducing the asylum backlog to its lowest level since 2020, with 42% of processed applications being granted protection. Furthermore, enforced returns of individuals without legal residency increased by 21%, while the number of asylum seekers housed in hotels fell as more people were moved into longer-term accommodation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: February 26, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cly07pyde00o\">bbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Home Office figures show that while small boat arrivals rose by 13% in 2025, overall asylum claims in the UK actually fell by 4% to approximately 100,625. This decrease is attributed to a 20% drop in people using other illegal routes, such as lorries, alongside a significant 30% reduction in work-related visas. The government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration-and-integration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8467,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions\/8467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}