UK will start processing Syrian claims again

The UK must start processing the Syrian shelter requirements again, more than seven months after the solutions were stopped after the fall of Assad.

Damn Minister Lady Angela Igl said the Ministry of Internal Affairs “worked on raising as soon as enough information appeared to make accurate and well -shown definitions.”

She said the claims could now be processed and returned to Syria in accordance with it.

The BBC News understands more than 20 asylum seekers who lived in the UK have already voluntarily returned to Syria this year – and that thousands of others may also be in the field of return.

Ministers hope that the first decorated return to Syria may happen by the end of the year, and the senior source of the home office added that they “will not say that it is a million miles.”

The government has published updated recommendations For officials who made decisions on Syrian requirements.

The UK stopped decisions on Syrian lawsuits and a permanent settlement in December, after President Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by the insurgent, led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) after the civil war.

In a written statement, Lada Angela said that the pause “was a necessary step, while there was no stable, objective information to make reliable risk assessments when returning to Syria.”

However, this step has left more than 7,000 Syrians, waiting for a decisions on the demand for a suspended state.

Most of them live in residence -funded the government, such as a hotel.

The pause was also applied to the Syrians who had already received refugee status and initially received the right to stay in the UK for five years before you could apply for permanent settlement.

Companies say that remaining with this temporary status makes it difficult to provide work or housing.

Welcoming this step, Enver Solomon, the CEO of the Refugee Council charity, said: “We know that the pause in decisions has left Syrian people who got into the further suspension, unable to work, continue their lives and fear their future.

“However, the situation in Syria still remains unstable, and we urge the government to guarantee that each refuge application is estimated at each case, ensuring the safety and protection of the Syrians who will face extraordinary risk if they are returned.”

The figures related to HTS – the UK is appointed terrorist group – now goes the country, and the HTS leader Ahmad Al -Sharaa called the Syrian president earlier this year.

According to the United Nations Refugees Convention on Refugees, a person must have a “well -founded persecution”, which will be provided asylum and refugee status.

The updated recommendations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Syria states that “a break in the law and order or uncertain safety situations do not cause a substantiated fear of persecution.”

“There are no significant reasons for the belief that there is a real risk of serious harm in Syria because of a serious and individual threat to the life of the civilian population or a person from the analysis of violence in the situation of an international or internal armed conflict,” he adds.

“All cases should be considered on their individual facts, and a person has demonstrated that they are faced with persecution or serious harm.”

The UK was also Gradually lifting sanctions on Syria.

The updated government leadership is based on a process similar to the risk assessment whether Syria is considered a safe country.

This process is usually carried out jointly by the Ministry of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the foreign service and can only be done if there is some diplomatic relations in the UK with the country in question.

Earlier this month, Foreign Minister David Lami got acquainted with the Interim President Al-Sharao when he became the first Minister of the UK, who visited Syria since the uprising, which led to the country’s civil war 14 years ago.

At the time of Lami’s visit, the figures at the Foreign Bureau believed that any step in processing the Syrian shelter’s statement was probably a few more months again.

But some European countries have already started to process claims, and Austria became the first EU country to deport anyone from the fall of Assad.

The BBC said that senior figures within the Ministry of Internal Affairs believe that there is a risk that the UK could be considered as a more attractive place for Syrian persons seeking asylum when European countries started processing claims and returning people, but the UK did not.

Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed concern about “pulling factors” that attracted migrants to come to the UK on small boats, Ahead of “One B”, one of the transactions signed by the UK and France.

Earlier, the ministers suggested that most Syrians who arrived in the UK before the fall of Assad fled with the regime, and some may wish to return.

As for the return, the leadership notes that after the change of government, the opponents of the former Assad regime “are unlikely to be at risk after returning to Syria solely on this basis.”

In a situation for religious minorities, it is said that Kurds, Christians, Druz and Shiite Muslims “are unlikely to face the real risk of persecution or serious harm from the state,” and “there is a person to demonstrate otherwise.”

However, this adds that the Kurds in the areas under actual control over the Syrian national army – the coalition of the Turkish rebel groups – are likely to face the real risk of persecution or serious harm “on the basis of their ethnicity or perception of political thought.

It also states that, despite the fact that the new government sought to assure the members of the Alawich minority that they would not be subject to severe repression, the Aliwites are likely to face the real risk of persecution or serious harm from the state from their religion and/or in the political opinion. ”

Many of the political and military elite of the former Assad regime belonged to the Alavita sect.

The leadership notes that in March The minority members of Alavita were subjected to a number of attacks As a result, 800 people were killed in which the HTS groups were involved.