Hundreds of lone children seeking asylum in the UK are being wrongly categorised as adults and handed new dates of birth by Border Force within minutes, an theipaper investigation has found mollyblackall reports
Case records and local authority data compiled by all the major charities working on age assessments, shared with, show that hundreds of children are being wrongly assessed as adults at the border and later confirmed to be children.
Care4Calais said it has supported 959 clients in age disputes since October 2021 and that they continue to receive “daily referrals” for age disputed asylum seekers. It is unclear how many of these were confirmed to be children. The officials can tick a box stating that two members of staff have assessed that the individual’s “physical appearance and demeanour very strongly suggests” that they are “significantly over 18 years of age”. They are then given new dates of birth and processed as adults.‘Within minutes’that “from my understanding, the new DOB is determined as soon as someone arrives and claims asylum, usually during the screening interview. The decision of a new DOB could be made within minutes.
The charity said it had dealt with one Afghan asylum seeker who arrived with documents showing that he was born in 2007, but the Home Office recorded this as 1998, making him a decade older. According to Care4Calais’s age assessment team, an estimated one in four of the arrivals they supported who claimed to be wrongly classed as adults had arrived in the UK with a form of ID showing that they were children, or could access the ID during the asylum process, but these had been overruled by border officers. The Home Office disputed this figure and said that what charities deem as adequate ID may not meet its standards.
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