UK to Speed Up Asylum Appeals as Migrant Hotels Protests Flare

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government plans to reform the asylum appeals process to speed up the deportation of rejected applicants amid nationwide protests over the housing of migrants in hotels.

Under the plan, appeals will be heard by a new panel of independent adjudicators in a bid to “dramatically” reduce waiting times from the current average of 53 weeks, the Home Office said in a statement Sunday.

The body will give priority to cases involving residents in taxpayer-funded accommodation and foreign offenders to determine whether an initial decision to refuse asylum should be upheld.

The Home Office said ...