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Those on board Bibby Stockholm will be housed there while they wait for their asylum applications to be processed, so how long could they be waiting?
In 2021, the average wait in the UK was 15.5 months, according to the Oxford Migration Observatory think tank. This does not mean the men will be on the boat for that long, as their applications are already being processed. By comparison, the average wait for an aslylum decision was 8.5 months in France, 6.5 months in Germany and just over three months in Austria.
The delay in the UK has created a backlog of more than 172,000 people. The prime minister has pledged to clear, by the end of 2023, 92,601 asylum cases logged before June 2022.
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