Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds a press conference on the Rwanda asylum plan, 22 April 2024
The Rwanda asylum plan (officially the UK and Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership, also known as the Rwanda asylum scheme, the Rwanda plan and the Rwanda deal) is an immigration policy first proposed by the British government in April 2022 whereby people whom the United Kingdom identified as illegal immigrants or asylum seekers would have been relocated to Rwanda for processing, asylum and resettlement. Those who were successful in claiming asylum would have remained in Rwanda, and they would not have been permitted to return to the United Kingdom.
The first flight for this plan received legal clearance from the High Court of Justice and was scheduled for 14 June 2022. A last-minute interim measure by the European Court of Human Rights led to the plan being halted until the conclusion of the legal action in the UK. At the end of 2022, the High Court further ruled that though the plan was lawful, the individual cases of eight asylum seekers due to be deported that year had to be reconsidered.[1] The Court of Appeal ruled on 29 June 2023 that the plan was unlawful; with an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom leading to a concurrence with the lower court on 15 November 2023.[2]
The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 overruled the courts' judgments and declared Rwanda a safe country.
^Doherty, Caitlin; Crowther, Zoe (19 December 2022). "Home Office Rwanda deportation policy is legal, court rules". Civil Service World. Archived from the original on 10 January 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
^"Supreme Court rules Rwanda asylum policy unlawful". BBC News. 15 November 2023. Archived from the original on 16 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
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