Just 1% of asylum seekers in UK genuine, insider says, as UN blasts Britain for allowing bogus claims

Just 1% of asylum seekers in UK genuine, insider says TOI correspondent from London: “At best 1% of asylum seekers in the UK are genuine,” a home office whistleblower has said, adding that most claims are scripted and bogus but still get granted.The United Nations refugee agency has criticised the home office, too, over risks that migrants are being granted asylum in the UK “even though they are not entitled to it” after finding in an audit that in a third of cases the “full basis of the applicant’s claim remained unclear”.The home office official, who worked for years as a decision-maker on asylum claims, told the UK Times newspaper: “There’s almost no aspect of the asylum system that isn’t either a massive fraud or just really dysfunctional.”He said many asylum seekers used the “same script” but staff won’t check their claims with their country of origin, as doing so could place individuals at risk.He saw hundreds of claims from Pakistani asylum seekers saying they are gay who all claimed to have the same boyfriend – a man who has provided hundreds of “very obviously fake letters of support” to all of them.The men all submitted photographs from the same London gay venue, Legs 800...