Whistleblower Says Just 1% of UK Asylum Claims Genuine, With Hundreds Recycling Tall Tales to Get Approval

Hundreds of asylum seekers have claimed to have slept with the daughter of the Kurdish Prime Minister to justify why they can’t go home, a whistle-blower is reported to have said as he reveals very nearly all asylum claims in Britain are fraudulent, but that there is a culture and incentive structure of accepting them anyway.

Only one-in-100 asylum claims made to the British government are genuine, but huge numbers of them are approved anyway, an anonymous whistle-blower cited by the national newspaper of record, The Times is reported to have claimed. Identified only as “J”, the whistle-blower is said to be a Home Office asylum ‘decision maker’ with years of experience and thousands of claims assessed, who says the fraud is so transparent the improbable and constantly recycled back-stories given by migrants — who he believes are coached on their claims to give the ‘right’ answers to get approved — are obvious, yet are so often approved anyway.

In recent years as many as three-quarters of asylum applications to the British government were approved. Although this has come down and is now comparatively low at about a third, if the one-per-cent figure of those being genuinely in need of asylum is even close to being true, the claims suggest Britain is continuing to absorb a huge quantity of costly dependents through fraud.

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