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UK offers cash incentives for return
The UK Home Office has announced that cash and aid repatriation packages worth up to £6,000 are to be offered to failed asylum seekers to go home voluntarily to Zimbabwe. Phil Woolas, immigration minister, indicated at the same time that the first steps would be taken this fall towards forcibly returning more than 10 000 [...]
UK plans Zimbabwe asylum removals
The UK Home Office has announced it wants to resume the removal of failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers. Immigration minister Phil Woolas said the ground was being cleared to start enforced returns “as and when the political situation develops”. The BBC understands the UK Border Agency could start returns in the New Year, but no firm [...]
UK makes changes to asylum system
Dear Sir/Madam, I wanted to let you know of an operational change we are making to the way we manage applications for asylum and further submissions. A WMS has been published on this issue today outlining the following changes: • Further submissions must be presented in person by the applicant • All in-country asylum applications [...]
Good news for Zim asylum seekers in UK
By Tichaona Sibanda Thousands of Zimbabwean asylum seekers are to benefit from the relaxation of immigration laws by the British government. From July, the UK government quietly loosened the immigration rules for asylum seekers in order to clear a backlog of cases. The British government two years ago halted its policy of returning Zimbabwean asylum [...]
Zim driver nabbed in UK depot raids
Two bus drivers including a Zimbabwean, Buka Tabengwa working illegally in Britain, were arrested by immigration officials after carrying out raids on their depots, the UK Border Agency (UKBA) said. One man, from South Africa, was held as he arrived at Arriva’s Northfleet depot in Kent after it was claimed he obtained work with a [...]
Jail for woman who forged birth certificate
A Zimbabwean woman living in Ashford, UK has been jailed for 18 months after forging her birth certificate to stay in the country. Mavu Chinyani, 38, of London Road, was jailed on September 17 for fraud by false representation at Croydon Crown Court, after denying the crime. The court heard how Chinyani tried to con [...]
UK to grant amnesty to asylum seekers
By Tom Whitehead At least 144,000 asylum seekers will be allowed to stay in Britain due to a backlog of claims. More than 63,000 of the 450,000 historic cases that were found to have slipped under the radar for years have now been told they can stay. Many are because they have been in the [...]




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