Full Fact investigates claims and misinformation about asylum seekers in the UK and beyond.
Our fact checks examine statements from politicians, media reports and social media posts about numbers arriving, government policy, housing, and community impact.
Each article uses transparent data, verified official statistics and expert evidence to clarify what’s accurate, what’s misleading and what’s unproven.
Immigration
There were 164,000 attempts to cross into the UK made between 2010 and 2015, although these figures don’t correspond to individual people. Read
Immigration
Home Office data makes it unclear exactly what it means to have an asylum application “on hold”. Read
Europe
The EU programme for relocating asylum seekers within Europe has seen 6,000 people move country in the past year. Read
Immigration
How many unaccompanied children are in Europe and how many are claiming asylum here? Read
Immigration
Officials and charities disagree over an extra 2,000 migrants in the Calais camp. We look at how both got their figures. Read
Immigration
In 2015, the UK had the ninth highest number of asylum seekers in the EU, and the fifth highest number of people accepted as refugees. Read
Immigration
Reports that over 80% of councils have taken in no Syrian refugees under the main government resettlement programme are correct - up to a point. Read
Exact figures are hard to come by, but it seems correct to say that there are 10 times as many refugees in Lebanon as in the UK. Read
Europe
Claims that there are 5,000 terrorists loose in Europe have been attributed to the director of Europol, the EU law enforcement agency. He says otherwise. Read
Immigration
David Cameron claims that the UK is the second largest contributor of humanitarian aid in the Syrian crisis. This is right, according to the United Nations. Read
