Family reunion rules to be tightened in asylum cases

Home Secretary Yatete Cooper is to declare the details of tightening the rules for the migrants that have been given asylum, which bring their families to the UK.

As MP returns to Westminster, Cooper will also improve the refuge appeal system.

When a person is given shelter in the UK, they can also apply to bring their family, but Cooper believes that policies change across Europe means that Britain is now out of the kilter with its neighbors and requires restrictions.

In the Commons this afternoon they are expected to determine the criteria that family members will need to get – including difficult English language standards and access to adequate money.

Cooper will also say that she intends to bring forward the new law to improve the refuge appeal system.

In August 55, small boats crossed the channel. This was the lowest figure for the month after 2019.

Yet smuggled gangs are putting more people on each boat – there were an average of 65 persons per vessel last month.

Orthodoxies say “Labor’s claim has been broken by the gang, completely infamous”.

Improvement UK says “Government words are not matching reality”.

Cooper would say that the overhall of the government’s “broken” shelter system attempts to end the use of hotels for migrants arriving on small boats – an issue that has protested in recent months.

She will also highlight people’s efforts in the National Crime Agency in dealing with smugglers, saying that it led 347 disruptions of the immigration crime network in 2024-25 – the highest level on records and 40% increase in the last 12 months.

Appeal court on Friday Reversed a temporary prohibition Who would have stopped the house office from the residence shelters at Bell Hotel in Eating and it would have been seen as a possible example for legal challenges.

The Epping Forest District Council held a meeting on Monday to decide the next course of its action, including whether the hotel is being used in the Supreme Court for those seeking asylum.

In Commons, the Home Secretary is expected to say that NCA’s efforts have created a “important and long -term impact” on people’s smugglers.

Planned reform of the government in the shelter system Announced in the last few weeks Include a new independent body that prefer matters related to asylum housing and foreign national criminals within 24 weeks, and a new fast track appeal process.

Cooper will also give an update UK returns with France, Where some of the migrants visiting the UK will be detained on small boats crossing the English channel and returned under a pilot scheme lasting 11 months.

He is expected to announce that France is going to have the first exile in the coming weeks.

“Our action to strengthen border security, increase returns and overhall the broken refuge is laying a very strong foundation to cure the chaos that we have inherited and can end the expensive asylum hotels,” she will tell the Commons.

Cooper would say that the UK has a proud record of “giving sanctuaries to people who migrate” but the system needs to be properly controlled and managed “.

Shadow’s Home Secretary Chris Filp said that the government was “lost control” and “completely surrounded in the crisis of the boundaries extracted”.

He said that Cooper’s statement was a “desperate distraction strategy”, and pointed to an increase in hotels under the Labor Government and the record number of arrival in small boats so far this year.

An reform UK spokesperson said: “We have seen a record number of crossings as the labor came to power last year, which had no sign of slowing down.”

Improvement, he said, if the office had a detailed plan to deport more than 600,000 illegal migrants in its first term if selected. Labor “improved” with foreign courts and old treaties, while reforms were “in favor of British people”.

A full High Court is expected to hear a permanent prohibition for a permanent prohibition for the Bell Hotel in mid -October.

The government says that it is planning to stop using the hotel for those seeking asylum till the end of this Parliament.

The ministers stated that the decision on the legal challenge on the Bell Hotel, which was brought by the lawyers for the house office and the Bell Hotel, would allow the government to “in a planned and systematic fashion”.

But some councils It is said that they are still taking legal action To prevent the shelters from being kept in hotels in their areas.

The Reform UK said that all 12 councils are controlled, they should find out legal options to prevent shelter seekers kept in local hotels.

Orthodox leader Kemi Badenoch urged Tory-Run-Run Councils to chase legal action for “walking” and said that all orthodox councilors would be issued advice after the ruling.

The protests began after the protests began at the Bell Hotel when a refugeer was arrested and later accused of several crimes, including an alleged sexual attack on a 14 -year -old girl.

Protest against the residence of shelter seekers in hotels – Also continued to take place across England and Scotland over the weekends, including Counter -Protects – Eating, London, Gluster, Partsmouth, Warrington, Norwich and Falkirk.