Get It Right: How Home Office Decision Making Fails Refugees

A report released by Amnesty in February 2004 reveals Home Office asylum decisions are based on inaccurate and out-of-date country information, unreasoned decisions about people's credibility and a failure to properly consider complex torture cases.

Government figures show that the Home Office got the initial decision wrong on nearly 14,000 asylum cases in the last reported calendar year (2002), meaning around one in five cases are overturned after costly appeals.

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