{"id":85927,"date":"2026-03-05T08:16:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85927"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:16:59","slug":"asylum-seekers-waiting-over-a-year-for-claim-in-uk-may-be-allowed-to-work-under-new-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/05\/asylum-seekers-waiting-over-a-year-for-claim-in-uk-may-be-allowed-to-work-under-new-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum seekers waiting over a year for claim in UK may be allowed to work under new measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-78430\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Shabana_Mahmood-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Shabana_Mahmood-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Shabana_Mahmood-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Shabana_Mahmood-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Shabana_Mahmood.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Up to 21,000 asylum seekers who have waited for a year for their claims to be processed could be allowed to enter the jobs market so they can support themselves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/mar\/04\/asylum-seekers-allowed-to-enter-uk-jobs-market-under-new-measures#img-1\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Up to 21,000 asylum seekers who have waited for a year for their claims to be processed could be allowed to enter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Home-Office1.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85928,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85927\/revisions\/85928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}