UK's Asylum Strategy: Rwanda's Involvement Unveiled

Rwanda's Compassion 🌍: The Refugee Scheme

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The plan has a new initiative for refugees seeking to officially enter the United States. If successful under this scheme, refugees can be granted resident status in Rwanda. If not the refugee may apply for full residence in Rwanda on another visa or seek resident status in another safe third country.

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What is the Rwanda Refugee Scheme?

The government has said that any refugee who officially enters the UK after 1 January 2022, such as from a safe country such as France, can be sent to Rwanda, the government said on 22 April 2022.

If successful, they could be granted refugee status and allowed to live in the East Central African country. This is called the Rwanda Refugee Scheme.

If not, they may apply to resettle in Rwanda on other grounds or seek refugee status in another "safe third country".

Any refugee will not be eligible to apply for return to the UK.

UK ministers say they believe the scheme will prevent people from coming to the UK through the English Channel on short notice.

It is said that on April 30, 2024, 7567 people visited the channel, which is a higher figure than yesterday's low for this period in 2023 or 2022.

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How many refugees can be sent to Rwanda?

More recently, according to the BBC's planet and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani, when the Act was approved by Parliament on 22 April, there were 52 thousand misdemeanors who could potentially be sent to Rwanda. He has said this.

The government said on April 28 it would begin detaining people in the next few weeks for deportation to Rwanda under this rule.

On 1 May, the Home Office released footage of immigration inspection officers detaining a number of migrants, who they took away in handcuffs and into secure vehicles.

Or less so, after official documents reported that they had lost contact with 3,557 of the 5,700 refugees from the first group who were directed to Rwanda for evacuation. Because when the refugees came to know that they would be sent to Rwanda under this rule, after the arrival of the official documents, they hid their contacts with the people of the government, that is, they got lost so that the government could not take any kind of help from them. Could not establish contact because they do not want to go to Rwanda, so they have closed their contact with the people of the government, that is, they hid them so that the government cannot reach them because they were marked for sending to Rwanda. Therefore he can do this.

A government source has therefore denied it was missing, claiming the Office has contacted every candidate who is under consideration. 10 It is understood that the UK has previously successfully resettled refugees in a separate scheme in Rwanda. Sent back under the Voluntary Removal Program.

Workers whose claims are approved may be offered up to £3,000 to move there. This amount in itself is very high

When can the first flights take off?

Rishi Sunak has said on April 22 that the first flights to Rwanda will be launched in 10 to 12 weeks. Earlier the government had said that it aimed to start flights in the spring but this did not happen. Now it has been told that the date of April 22 is official. By form.

Rishi Sunak said that he has also shared information about the fact that the statue story will fly during and after the summer.

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And he also informed that there is an airfield in preparation and commercial charter aircraft have been booked. The first flight carrying Rwanda to Migrant was scheduled for June 2022 but was canceled just before the flights due to legal objections. Please give information about this also.

Why is the plane not being flown in the direction of Rwanda any time soon?

Today, planes are not being flown in some directions soon because there is some political work behind it, under which all of them will get permission to fly only after completing the formalities.

What is the Rwanda Bill and can it be objected to?

The UK Supreme Court ruled that the plan was illegal, so the government introduced legislation to clarify UK law that Ravana is a safe country, certified it and presented it to the Supreme Court.

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The law, which was finally approved after intense political opposition, orders the court to ignore key sections of the Human Rights Act because the government has also signed a migration treaty with Rwanda, which Home Minister James Cleverley said Who guarantees that no one sent there will risk returning to their country of origin?

The Rwandan legislator was strongly criticized by opposition parties and several charities representing refugees but no matter what happened, a bill was passed in their parliament that would send the refugees to Rwanda.

After the bill was passed, Illegal Migration Minister Michael Tomlinson said he expected legal objections to be made, possibly from specialist refugee organisations, from individual refugees appealing against their deportation. He has said this in his official statements.

Rishi Sunak said that 25 courtrooms and a hundred and fifty judges have been made available to resolve any legal cases and 500 highly qualified individuals have been prepared to escort illegal migrants to Rwanda and beyond. 300 are waiting for training.

The FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, announced it was launching a legal challenge to oppose the clause, because it feared officers carrying out the work could be forced to break the law. Which Congress has said it will scrap the Rwanda plan if it wins further elections.

A dividing line has been drawn in the elections by passing the Rwandan MLA and Congress has said that if it wins further elections, it will eliminate this MLA. He has said this for political gain for the vote bank.

Is Rwanda safe and what was the decision of the Supreme Court?

The UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled in November 2023 that the Rwanda plan is illegal.

It said that genuine refugees may face the risk of being returned to their country of origin where they may even be found unaccompanied by the Supreme Court and that it violates the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) which amounts to suffering and inhuman treatment. Prohibits. The UK is a signatory to the ECHR.

The decision takes issue with Ramananda's serious human rights record and also mentions Chita's past trafficking of refugees there.

In 2021 the judges said the UK government itself had criticized Rwanda over "extrajudicial killings, deaths in custody, enforced invisibility and torture". We have also come forward with many issues before the government on this subject.

He also highlighted the 2018 incident when Rwandan police opened fire on an offending refugee, killing at least 11 people.

A variety of things are emerging about the UK's approach to the refugee settlement round.

How much will the Rwanda plan cost?

It is being said that by the end of 2023 the UK government had paid £240 million to Rwanda. Such things are coming to light. Because there is a huge amount because the government is seen as spending a lot of money on sending its refugees to Rwanda.

And according to the National Accounts Office the total payment over 5 years will be at least £37 million. Because the government has got a bill passed in the Parliament to bear all these expenses for the refugees in Rwanda.

Where the government is going is that if more than 300 people are sent to Rwanda then the UK will pay a one time amount of £120 million to boost the economy of the country and an additional payment of £20,000 will be made for the resettlement of each person. That things have been kept in this bill. Because if the refugees are sent to Rwanda, the government will have to pay a huge amount because the UK government is incurring such an expense for the full residence of the refugees there and for providing them some employment. Is.

And where are the millions of rupees that will be paid for each individual? The report notes that this figure will not include the cost of payments depending on which clean Rwanda chooses to go.