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
This viral image claims that pensioners can collect just a fifth of what ‘illegal immigrants’ and refugees can. But how much can each group really get? Read
Immigration
The government has a target to take in 23,000 refugees by 2020 from the Middle East and North Africa. Read
Immigration
The UK and France have cooperated on border controls around French ports for years. How much do we spend on doing so? Read
Immigration
How many refugees and asylum seekers are there in the United Kingdom? Read
Immigration
The government never officially said that 3,000 child refugees would be accepted under the Dubs Amendment, although some campaigners say they expected that many to arrive. Read
We’ve looked into Jeremy Corbyn’s and Theresa May’s claims on the government response to the recent US order on refugees, and to the wider Syrian crisis. Read
Immigration
We look at what the experts say on how, if at all, asylum seekers choose between potential countries of refuge. Read
The mysterious tale of the vanishing asylum seekers - or, how the Home Office failed to answer our questions. Read
Immigration
The UK has committed £36 million to “maintain security” in Calais. Some of this money will be used to close the ‘Jungle’ camp, but some is also being spent on border security and keeping child migrant Read
Immigration
What are the Dubs 'amendment' and 'Dublin regulation', and why are they relevant to closing the migrant camp at Calais? Read
