Home Office will decide asylum claims of thousands stuck in Rwanda scheme limbo

Previous UK government had built up backlog of 90,000 people whose claims it deemed inadmissible'

Thousands of asylum seekers left in limbo for more than two years as they awaited a decision on the Rwanda scheme will now have their cases decided in the UK.

The decision, revealed during a high court challenge on Friday, is a sharp shift in position from the previous government, which had passed various laws declaring that the claims of those who arrived after January 2022 were inadmissible" - and so could not be processed in the UK.