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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

The government has designed it as a deterrent and they don’t expect it to have instant impact.

It's clearly not a volume shifter as it's one in, one out. What do you think it was designed to do?

As I said before, whether it works only time will tell.

There is a cap on numbers. There also has to an "in" candidate.
All the others that also arrived in that 2 week period are not subject to the scheme. Those are good odds, given how many arrived with only 2(?) leaving.
If they have made a "dangerous crossing", they can't then claim to be seeking safety. Automatically asylum should be refused.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Thanks, similar to the UK then.

Did you find anything to back-up Old Boy's four-star hotel claim?

UK

Asylum applicants should not stay in initial accommodation for any longer than 3-4 weeks415

That rule for some reason doesn't apply to France or Germany, and possibly others. Weird that.

There was a huge increase in the use of hotel and other full-board accommodation during 2020 and 2021, this has continued since. The Home Office issued a statement about the use of hotels and other temporary accommodation.417 The use of hotels for anything other than a very short period continues to be criticised, including in a report from the Refugee Council in July 2022.418
If the asylum applicant qualifies for Section 95 support they are moved into smaller units, mainly flats and shared houses, in the same region, but as regions are large this may not be within travelling distance of
their legal representative if they have one.

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"This is where I had my honeymoon. It's a four-star hotel. It's got a sauna and a jacuzzi and a pool. The people in it have come here illegally into our country."

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Asylum seekers recently arrived during the small hours at the wharf-side four-star Britannia International - 610 rooms,

Not quite 5,000 crammed into a former airport in Germany.