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
A government minister said 200 hotels have been closed since peak usage under the Conservatives, but most of this decrease took place under the previous government. Read
Immigration
Thousands of people have viewed a video supposedly featuring a former ‘migrant hotel employee’, who makes a number of incorrect claims about what government support asylum seekers receive. Read
Immigration
Claims about a case Mr Starmer worked on when he was a barrister have recirculated online. Read
Immigration
A widely shared clip which contains a voiceover of someone claiming people on a beach are asylum seekers at Dover is misleading. Read
Politics
The hoax letter has been circulating on social media, but authorities say they have not received it, and it is not genuine. Read
A claim we’ve previously fact checked appears to be recirculating on Facebook. Read
Immigration
A post claiming this has been shared widely on Facebook. Read
Thousands have shared a Facebook post falsely claiming “every illegal immigrant” receives a card preloaded weekly with £175, as well as free daily meals. Read
Immigration
A post circulating on social media falsely claims that there are 1.6 million asylum seekers receiving “long term benefits”. Read
Immigration
A figure used by Robert Jenrick MP refers to a study which estimated the lifetime net cost of asylum seekers in the Netherlands, not the UK. Read
