Priti Patel plans sweeping changes to asylum rules

BRITAIN is going to act tough and would soon stop adult migrants claiming to be children while seeking asylum in the country.

Home secretary Priti Patel is set to bring in major changes to the asylum rules after refugees including a balding man in his 40s was found attending a school.

Earlier, there was a case where a migrant named Ahmed Hassan entered Britain while pretending to be a 16-year-old. He later set off a bomb on a Tube train that left 69 injured.

According to a Daily Mail report there would be an independent age assessment body and not local councils that will take decision on asylum seekers claiming to be children.

Earlier, after verification anyone under 25 was treated as a minor but in the new legislation it will be under 18. However, stats from last five years says that 55 per cent of asylum seekers proved to be above 18.

The changes are expected soon once the borders legislation is published later this month.

The judge who sentenced Hassan for 34 years jail-term said that the Parsons Green bomber was over 18 and not older than 21.

In 2018, an asylum seeker named Siavash Shah believed to be from Iran, spent six weeks as a Year 11 pupil at Stoke High School in Ipswich.

A classmate of his posted a picture on social media and asked, "How's there a 30-year-old man in our maths class?"

There are rules that govern an asylum seeker's age in Britain. Physical examination is not permitted and instead they have to be assessed on other factors like language skills.