🔴 Asylum seekers 'in limbo' while stuck in huge Home Office backlog for more than two years
shows that the number of people waiting for an initial decision on their asylum claim increased fourfold in five years, with a third waiting between one and three years.
His mother and brother were both killed in a traffic accident while he was in detention for 47 days after arriving in the UK, but he did not find out until several weeks later as his phone had been confiscated. His mother died three days after the accident, but his family were unable to contact him. “I don’t know what’s happening from here until tomorrow. Each day I have a mixture of fear and sadness and I am always fighting against a kind of depression. I am just in limbo.”
“It’s very much closed doors. Some asylum seekers get very frustrated and upset and contact the lawyers, which is difficult for everybody because the lawyers are obviously working really hard and don’t have a lot of extra time,” said Matilda Velevitch, north London lead for the charity Care4Calais. Asked about the Government’s new tougher stance, Amadou said: “When I hear of these new rules coming in, it makes me feel incredibly sad and fearful for what happens in the future to me or anyone else.He was one of six people who made the Channel crossing overnight in a small inflatable dinghy without being intercepted by coastguards. The group did not wear life jackets as they could not get them, despite him being the only one who could swim.
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