Amnesty urges government to address surge in asylum seekers left in limbo
The sign outside the Home Office in Westminster, London
AMNESTY International urged the government today to address a surge in the number asylum-seekers being left in limbo.
The human rights group highlighted new quarterly Home Office figures to September that showed 133,409 claimants are still waiting for an initial asylum decision.
This is a 13 per cent increase than at the end of the previous quarter in June, with the backlog of claims remaining around 80,000.
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